The Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony is a gratuitously enjoyable affair, with bulging muscles and beaming athletes proudly walking the Parade of Nations -- and into our hearts.

    Will the Chicago Blackhawks, the Atlanta Braves and the Kansas City Chiefs be next? Social and checkbook pressures are inevitable, and so is change.     

    Will Shaner held off Chinese shooters Haoran Yang and Lihao Sheng and set an Olympic record to secure a gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle.     

    Firefighters used a cherry picker to pluck Steve Rosenthal from his Unit 705 balcony after the Champlain Towers South partially crumbled last month.

    Outside the public eye on Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, feds are trying to stem a deadlier threat: white supremacists operating in and out of prison.     

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    Soderlund died from complications due to Alzheimer's disease.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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    'AGT' returned on Tuesday with live shows from Universal Studios Hollywood.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

    The actor is getting some support from his ex-wife, Lindsay Hartley, and daughter, Bella.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

    Often, I get asked why we left Panama and which country is better. Comparing two, totally different countries is like comparing night and day, but I will attempt to give a brief rundown of each, according to my opinion…

    The economy caught fire in the spring and it's still running pretty hot this summer, but a new strain of the coronavirus is threatening to cast a chill over the recovery.

    The sixth time is a charm for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, closing above 35,000 for the first time Friday, as stocks cap a buy-the-dip rebound from a selloff that opened the week.

    Stagflation has moved onto the radar screen of some market analysts.

    Uber Technologies Inc. acknowledged Friday it had been showing drivers lower fares than what riders actually paid, and promised to change the practice while saying it was all due to the new California law the company spent tens of millions of dollars to pass.

    (International & American Associations for Dental Research) Hiba Nasir, Wayzata High School, Plymouth, Minn., presented the poster "Oral-Health Impact Profile 5: Analyzing A Private Practice Adult Population's Distribution" at the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), held in conjunction with the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) and the 45th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research (CADR), on July 21-24, 2021.

    (University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have discovered that spontaneous impulses of dopamine, the neurological messenger known as the brain's "feel good" chemical, occur in the brain of mice. The study found that mice can willfully manipulate these random dopamine pulses for reward.

    (International & American Associations for Dental Research) Ruth Lipman, American Dental Association (ADA) Science and Research Institute, Chicago, Ill., U.S., presented the poster "Strategies for Disseminating Guidance to Dentists during the COVID-19 Pandemic" at the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), held in conjunction with the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) and the 45th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research (CADR), on July 21-24, 2021.

    (JAMA Network) What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association between net worth at midlife and subsequent longevity in individuals as well as with siblings and twins.

    (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) A collaboration led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Shanghai Children's Medical Center and others revealed how thiopurines produce mutations that lead to multi-drug resistant leukemia and relapse.

    The department said these sightings follow other recent reports in the region.

    Saturday's weather led many of you to spend the day outdoors. Some people went to the park for humans and others headed to dog parks.

    The SIU alumna will fly to Tokyo Saturday morning.

    Four of the Illinois counties served by the Southern Seven Health Department are now in the Orange Warning Level, according to Illinois' COVID-19 risk metrics.

    Cautiously optimistic: that's the approach Paducah police are taking this weekend. It's the first weekend for the downtown Entertainment Destination Center.

    Portal origin URL: Artificial Intelligence Helps Improve NASA’s Eyes on the SunPortal origin nid: 472681Published: Friday, July 23, 2021 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A group of researchers is using artificial intelligence techniques to calibrate some of NASA’s images of the Sun, helping improve the data that scientists use for solar research.Portal image: Two lines of images of the Sun. The top line gets darker and harder to see, while the bottom row stays a consistent brightly visible image.

    Portal origin URL: NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to Acquire First SamplePortal origin nid: 472678Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 12:45Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth.Portal image: View from the Perseverance rover as it scouts its first sampling location.

    Portal origin URL: Media Invited to Learn About NASA Mission to Study Intense StormsPortal origin nid: 472676Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 11:40Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA is inviting media to learn more about an upcoming airborne science campaign to study intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States, which will aid scientists in their understanding of how such storms affect Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.Portal image: Scientists are using NASA's ER-2 high altitude research aircraft to study the atmospheric effects of powerful summer thunderstorms that erupt over the U.S.

    Portal origin URL: An EPIC View of the Moon’s Shadow During the June 10 Solar EclipsePortal origin nid: 472643Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: No, that’s not a smudge on your screen -- the blurry dark brown spot over the Arctic is a shadow cast by our Moon during a solar eclipse.Portal image: Image of the Earth during the June 10, 2021 eclipse.

    Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb to Explore a Neighboring, Dusty Planetary SystemPortal origin nid: 472665Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 09:18Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Researchers will take stock of the dust in the debris disk surrounding the nearby star Beta Pictoris.Portal image: A debris disk, which includes comets, asteroids, rocks of various sizes, and plenty of dust, orbits the star Beta Pictoris, which is blocked at the center of this 2012 image by a coronagraph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

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    Deshaun Watson plans to report to Texans training camp Sunday, according to sources, amid his request to be traded and the ongoing legal situation that includes 22 civil lawsuits filed against the QB.

    The Unites States faltered down the stretch Sunday in losing to France at the Olympics.

    The career of Oksana Chusovitina ended after a record-setting eighth Olympic appearance Sunday after the 46-year-old gymnast failed to qualify in the vault event.

    The T-Mobile High Speed Internet Gateway (5G21-12W-A) offers a $50/mo alternative to cable broadband, and delivers performance good enough for a small household that likes to stream video.

    A great wireless router is an essential element of tech life, whether you’re building out a smart home or you just want the best experience streaming music and video at home. If you’re suffering with low wireless throughput or dead spots in any area of your home, we heartily recommend deploying a mesh network consisting of a Wi-Fi router with one or more satellite nodes that you sprinkle around your home, because it will blanket your home with coverage. You can deploy a mesh Wi-Fi router without any satellites, but you’d be losing out on all the coverage benefits that mesh technology provides. We pick the best mesh systems here, because even those of us fortunate enough to have ethernet drops everywhere have devices—smartphones and tablets, for instance—that depend on Wi-Fi to connect to the home network and the internet.To read this article in full, please click here

    What’s causing GPUs to die while playing Amazon’s beta game, New World? No one seems to know yet, but EVGA confirmed it has already shipped replacement GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 cards to affected customers.A company spokesman confirmed to PCWorld that it has enough GPUs to replace reportedly dead cards, and it would cross-ship cards directly to impacted customers under warranty.EVGA wouldn’t say exactly how many dead card reports it had received, but the spokesman described it as a “small handful.”The company also said it has received no new reports of GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 cards dying since Amazon Games patched New World to implement frame rate lock options in-game, as well as “clamp down” on frame rates in the menu screen. To read this article in full, please click here

    Sure, benchmarking your graphics card may sound like rocket science, but it’s not as difficult as you might think. Roll up your sleeves, because this guide will show you just how easy, enjoyable, and important it is to benchmark your GPU. And not just when you’re overclocking! We’ll cover benchmarking for both stability and performance.[ Further reading: Best graphics cards for PC gaming ]Why you should benchmark your GPUFirst, though, here’s why you should be benchmarking your graphics card even if you aren’t trying to make it to the top of the competitive overclocking charts:To read this article in full, please click here

    RIG’s gaming headphones may have been around for a long time, but they’re new to me. I’ve never had an opportunity to try a pair before. Now that the company is owned by Nacon, however, I was sent over not one but two pairs—the RIG 700 Pro HX and 500 Pro HX Gen 2—to hear what all the hub-bub is about.First impressions? Both feel extremely comfortable and feature the striking looks that RIG is known for, though the sound quality is average at best. But while the two headsets hold some similarities in both look and sound performance, there’s still plenty that sets them apart from each other. Adam Patrick Murray/IDGNacon RIG 700 Pro HX (top), 500 Pro HX Gen 2 (bottom)To read this article in full, please click here

    An Iranian taekwondo athlete competing for the Refugee Olympic Team made her mark at Tokyo 2020 after she defeated two-time Olympic gold medalist Jade Jones.

    Struggling entering the Olympics, the U.S. men's basketball team lost its Tokyo opener to France 83-76. The Americans play Iran next.     

    Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the US is "going in the wrong direction" as the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise, particularly among unvaccinated Americans.

    • How a pro-Trump mob besieged the Capitol• We saw them that day. Their lives before January 6 are another story

    More than 130,000 customers in Michigan are without power after a series of severe storms and possible tornadoes tore through the state Saturday night.

    A weakening In-fa is beginning to track away from the southern Japanese islands but has its eye set on eastern China by the end of this weekend. The storm could bring extremely heavy rainfall to millions in China.

    The global shortage of semiconductors that has hobbled the auto industry and made some consumer electronics more expensive could last until the middle of 2023, Intel has warned.

    India's first billion-dollar tech startup to go public got off to a flying start on Friday.

    Tax authorities in India raided several offices of one of the world's biggest-selling newspapers on Thursday, a move journalists and leading opposition politicians described as an attack on press freedom.

    A dramatic surge in Covid-19 cases is forcing hundreds of thousands of workers to stay home in Britain, causing shortages of food and gasoline and heaping stress on supply chains that were already strained by Brexit.