Recovering

Article content Denver-area AT&T Sportsnet reporter Kelsey Wingert said Wednesday that she is recovering after being struck in the head by a foul line drive during the ninth inning of the Colorado Rockies’ home game on Monday night against the San Francisco Giants. Article content Wingert, who covers the Rockies, posted a picture on her Twitter account displaying a downward row of stitches on her forehead from the incident, saying “I took a 95 MPH line drive to my head.” Wingert, 29, was stationed at the end of…

Activision Blizzard said on Twitter Wednesday that its Battle.net service was suffering from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. As of publish time, things seem to be recovering. In the initial tweet, sent at 7:11PM ET from the @BlizzardCS Twitter account, the company cautioned that the attack “may result in high latency and disconnections for some players.” Based on user reports on Downdetector, players were having issues with games including Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty (though exactly which…

Some cells can turn cancerous when they divide, due to chromosomes getting “lost” in the process. In a new study, researchers at the University of Warwick have uncovered what happens to these lost chromosomes and how to recover them, potentially leading to new treatments to prevent certain cancers.Before a cell divides, it first duplicates all of its chromosomes, then gives a copy to each of the two new cells. This is done using a protein structure called a mitotic spindle, which pulls chromosomes towards each end of the…