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When Julian Borger’s father took his own life in London in 1983, his family assumed it was linked to recent events. Robert Borger, a lecturer in psychology at Brunel University, had been passed over for a promotion at work and, after an ultimatum from his wife, Wyn, about his infidelity, had walked out of the family home. But then Borger Jr telephoned Nancy Bingley, who lived in Caernarfon in Wales and had fostered Robert after he arrived from Austria in the late 1930s as a Jewish refugee. On hearing that he had killed…

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty in the case of Payton Gendron, the white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. The decision marks the first time federal attorneys have sought the death penalty during Joe Biden’s presidency. In a notice filed Friday, Jan. 12, in the U.S. District Court for Western New York, prosecutors laid out several factors “justifying a sentence of death.” Among them were claims that the mass shooting was intentional and carried out after…

Sony/SiemensAnother interesting phrase Siemens has been using is immersive engineering. The idea is that engineering, design, and content creation can be done inside a 3D environment using a toolkit called the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. Siemens offers a product called NX Immersive Designer. This tool is designed to "seamlessly connect the real and digital worlds." Sony/SiemensIn a curious announcement for a company so focused on branding, Sony is disclosing the development of a spatial content creation…

Rural startups are making a strong pitch for new programmes to foster research and innovation, as the grassroots-level entrepreneurs seek support for streamlined supply chains, subsidies, improved infrastructure, and easy access to finance. With the Budget and the Lok Sabha elections drawing closer, startups working in various sectors, especially in smaller towns and villages, said they expect the government to look at various teething issues, even as their "overall performance has improved owing to various policy changes…

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 13-year prison sentence for former Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar for his role in an expansive bribery scheme, according to court documents filed Thursday.After a years-long federal investigation, Huizar pleaded guilty in January to charges of racketeering and tax evasion, admitting that he extorted at least $1.5 million from real estate developers.Huizar is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 26 by U.S. District Judge John F. Walter.Ahead of the sentencing, the government filed…

How can you tell if a dinosaur is female or male? It’s one of the most basic aspects of biology and yet, for the most part, it continues to be a mystery in paleontology. We don’t yet know the sex of most extinct species, even if those in museum displays have gender-specific names like Sue the T.rex or Cliff the Triceratops. But this past October at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, one scientist offered insight into the work he and his team are doing to uncover hormones in fossil bones.…

This photo provided by Hyundai shows the Ioniq 6 electric sedan. It is the quickest charging EV that Edmunds has tested to date. Credit: Hyundai Motor America via AP How much range an electric vehicle has is a primary consideration for many EV shoppers in determining which one they should purchase. But nearly as important is how quickly an EV can charge at a public fast-charging station. After all, the quicker you can charge…

Organisations across sectors in India are having mature conversations on cybersecurity and want a multi-layered and comprehensive “secure-by-design kind of model to be put in place”, the chief technology officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise India said.“Earlier it was more like a support mode kind where you had some peripheral security, cybersecurity elements being placed. Today we are having very mature conversations with customers. Organisations are now thinking how to put people, processes and technology together and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In her recently published research, Yesim Orhun, associate professor of marketing and Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, explores unique insights into what information individuals seek when making important decisions and how policymakers, medical professionals, and business leaders should communicate anxiety-provoking news. …

The nearly-a-year-old regulatory ban on payment aggregators like Paytm, Razorpay, Cashfree and PayU to onboard new merchants and businesses has forced these venture capital-backed firms to scout for alternative revenue sources.The continuing restriction on these companies has also opened up the online payments market for players like Plural from Pine Labs, PhonePe, Innoviti Payments (an offline player which ventured into the online space recently), Billdesk and CCAvenue, which are now signing up merchants…