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Blueye Robotics recently unveiled the Blueye Pioneer, an underwater drone that consumers can navigate to as deep as 150 meters under the ocean surface — about eight times deeper than divers can normally go. I made my way to Santa Cruz, California, where the team from Trondheim, Norway was visiting, to get a hands-on look at […]
Getty Images Edith Windsor, the woman synonymous with the fight for LGBT equality in the United States and whose 2013 Supreme Court victory declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, died Tuesday. She was 88 years old. Her death was confirmed to the New York Times by her wife, Judith Kasen-Windsor, whom she married in […]
Wikimedia Commons One of the market’s hottest trades this year has involved betting on stocks to sit still. The wager in question is shorting the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, and many investors are big fans. Following a recent short-term increase in the VIX, traders added almost $ 400 million of exposure to the trade. […]
Adult cinema is frequently left out of the discussions about independent movies, but the experimental and avant-garde works of directors like Radley Metzger, Roberta Findlay, and Joe Sarno demand a place in the canon. These filmmakers are being honored in a new series at New York’s Quad Cinema. Erotic City, which runs today through August […]
Published time: 20 Aug, 2017 03:57 Edited time: 20 Aug, 2017 04:09 Thousands of people have attended a peaceful rally against white supremacism in Dallas. The event was marred by scuffles with supporters of a Confederate monument at Pioneer Park Cemetery. Dozens of protesters are defying police orders to disperse. READ MORE: Trump applauds Boston […]
Karen Cockburn leapt to some of Canada’s greatest heights. Now, the trampolinist is sticking her landing. On Sunday, the three-time Olympic medallist announced her retirement from the sport at the 2017 Canadian Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics in Oshawa, Ont. “For as long as I can remember I’ve been wearing the red and white. It has been […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] 3-time Olympic medallist discusses the impact she made on the sport of trampoline. CBC | Sports News
Published time: 3 Jun, 2017 11:15 Eyepatch-wearing surf legend and wetsuit pioneer Jack O’Neill died aged 94 at his California home Saturday surrounded by his family. O’Neill, who helped invent the wetsuit, allowing surfers to ride the waves in cold water, was a legend of the surfing world and went on to champion marine environmental […]
LIKE other local bankers, Bob Rivers is counting the cost of red tape. At the end of 2015 and 2016 Eastern Bank, a Boston lender of which he is the chief executive, held its balance-sheet below $ 10bn by briefly parking some deposits elsewhere. Now Eastern—America’s oldest and largest mutual bank, founded in 1818—has crossed […]
On Tuesday night Josh Donaldson blasted a gigantic two-run shot into the fifth deck of the Rogers Centre, making him the ninth player in the history of the franchise to do so. In all, the feat has been accomplished 11 times by Jays players, twice by Donaldson, and twice by former Jay Edwin Encarnacion. Here’s Donaldson’s first, […]
