Early 18th-century frescoes to be restored at Sretensky Monastery
Moscow, August 12, 2021 Photo: vk.com Thanks to a subsidy from the Moscow city government, unique frescoes from the early 18th century will be restored in…
Greek Archdiocese raising funds to help Greek fire victims (+VIDEO)
New York, August 12, 2021 Photo: goarch.org As wildfires continue to spread and wreak havoc in Greece, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has launched a…
Greek and Ukrainian hierarchs celebrate feast of St. Spyridon on Corfu
Corfu, Greece, August 12, 2021 Met. Nektarios (left), Met. Luke (right). Photo: romfea.gr A great annual tradition was again honored on the Greek island of Corfu…
Icon of St. Paisios streaming myrrh in church saved from fire (+VIDEO)
Ippokratios Politia, Greece, August 12, 2021 Photo: ekklisiaonline.gr An icon of St. Paisios the Athonite is heavily streaming myrrh in a Greek chapel that was recently…
Three more high-profile Blizzard employees are no longer at the company, including Diablo 4’s director
Three prominent Blizzard employees have been let go from the company, as first reported by Kotaku, marking the latest departures from the studio following a major sexual…
Spotify’s Wear OS app is getting offline playback in the coming weeks
Spotify’s updated Wear OS app is releasing “over the coming weeks,” Spotify has announced, and it’ll support offline playback on smartwatches running Wear OS 2.0 and up….
Think having the most female friends will get men a date? Think again
Men who have plenty of female friends are seen as less attractive by women, a study has suggested. As part of the research, a group of women…
Scrap costly travel tests or risk falling further behind Europe, warns airport chief
Costly travel tests for holidaymakers need to be scrapped immediately or Britain risks falling further behind Europe, the country’s largest airport group has said. MAG, which owns…
Reddit is now valued at more than $10 billion
Reddit, the self-declared ‘front page of the internet,’ says it is now valued at more than $10 billion after raising an additional $410 million in funding, with…
U.S. employers get religion with vaccine mandates
WILMINGTON, Del, Aug 12 (Reuters) – As coronavirus infections rise again, U.S. companies mandating vaccinations are confronting an uncomfortable question rarely asked by an employer – what…
ToneStone is a music production app from the people behind Guitar Hero and Left 4 Dead
ToneStone is an app designed to make producing music easy, even for users without any musical experience, and it’s created by people who worked on Guitar Hero…
Nikola wins $2 million DOE grant after founder’s indictment
Hydrogen trucking startup Nikola has won a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy just two weeks after founder and former chairman Trevor Milton was indicted…
Disney beats quarterly revenue estimates
A smartphone with displayed “Disney” logo is seen on the keyboard in this illustration taken March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Aug 12 (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co…
Google bans tracking tool that sold users’ location data
Google has banned a company that sold Android users’ location data for COVID-19 mapping and other purposes, Motherboard reports. SafeGraph was one of several companies that collected…
The lightest folding electric bike is a costly rideable that almost does it all
“The world’s lightest folding electric bike” is a claim that ostensibly ticks all the boxes for a rideable. A foldable design that makes it easy to store…
Verizon vows to protect Tracfone’s low-income users in new merger promise
On Thursday, Verizon announced a range of new public commitments to protect low-income consumers in connection with its proposed acquisition of Tracfone. The commitments are part of…
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 calculates body fat from the wrist
Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 4 has a feature that can calculate body fat percentage and muscle mass, the company announced yesterday. It’s the latest tech company to…
Forget the Note — Samsung’s foldables are coming for the Galaxy S as well
It’s been easy to dismiss folding phones as the stuff of science fiction, even after they became a reality two years ago. They were too expensive, too…
Windows 11 is getting updated snipping tool, calculator, and mail apps
Microsoft is improving some of the built-in apps available in Windows 11. Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel can now test new updates to the Snipping Tool,…
How in the world did these AMD RX 6600 XT GPUs sell at or under MSRP?
Every PC graphics card we’ve reviewed in months has come with a disclaimer — if you can find one at all, you won’t be able to buy…
WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook are reportedly blocked in Zambia during its presidential election
WhatsApp and other apps are reportedly blocked in Zambia during ongoing general elections being held in the country Thursday, according to digital rights organization Access Now and…
Facebook office return delayed until 2022 in the US
Specifically citing concerns about a rise in cases of the delta variant of COVID-19, Facebook confirmed a Bloomberg report that it has pushed back plans for US…
Apple updates Eddy Cue’s title to better reflect its turn to services
Apple rolled out a small but meaningful update to senior executive Eddy Cue’s job title on Thursday that features an area of interest the company has long…
Alibaba to set up committee to probe sexual harassment complaints
A man walks past a logo of Alibaba Group at its office building in Beijing, China August 9, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang Aug 12 (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce…
Adidas ends Reebok era with $2.5 bln sale to Authentic Brands
Boards with Reebok store logo are seen on a shopping center at the outlet village Belaya Dacha outside Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2016. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor/File Photo Adidas…