The battle for Masters supremacy was in full swing at Augusta National on Thursday, with Rory McIlroy marching off in search of golfing history and Bubba Watson battling to defend the title he won last year. At 25, McIlroy would be the second-youngest player ever to complete the full set of Grand Slam titles were he to emerge truimphant on Sunday. Only Tiger Woods, the last of five players to
By Scott Malone FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) – The judge in former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez’s murder trial on Thursday reprimanded a local television station after two jurors reported being followed by one of its trucks, warning the incident could have led to a mistrial. The jury has begun its third day of deliberations on whether Hernandez, 25, is guilty of murdering an associate, in the first of
Fitness and patience will enable top-ranked Rory McIlroy to handle the Masters’ back nine Sunday pressure better than his infamous 2011 collapse, says three-time Masters winner Gary Player. McIlroy seeks his third major triumph in a row this week and would complete a career Grand Slam with a triumph over the same layout where he led by four strokes entering the final round four years ago only to stumble on
Microsoft has detailed a speedy Nano Server preloaded with born-in-the-cloud applications and containers, all of which will make new container option an important part of Windows Server 2016. The purpose-built OS is designed to cope with the ever changing band of modern apps and cloud technologies, which require speed, agility and lower resource usage than traditional servers. At its heart, the Nano Server is a extremely slimmed down version of
Best Android apps – introduction The Google Play store has exploded in recent years, with a proliferation of apps that can cater to your every need. The problem is: there are just too many of them. Even with Editor’s Picks, Featured and Best Selling, Top Paid and Top Free categories there to help you out with your downloading decision it’s still a difficult task finding the best apps around. And
Apple Watch pre-orders open tomorrow, and Apple is bigging up the popularity of its wearable before anyone’s even hit the “buy” button. It reckons that the “tremendous interest” in the Watch is going to see demand exceeding supply. Therefore, for the initial launch period, it will only be taking pre-orders online. The whole statement from Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail and Online Stores, is below. “We are
– To ensure that nothing is lost in translation, Yukihiko Yaguchi pulls out his iPhone and scrolls through the photos. The chief engineer of the 2016 Lexus GS F stops on a pic of a mid-90s Toyota Chaser—a Japanese-market mid-size sedan—sporting a tiger decal on the hood and orange stripes across its roof and flanks. It’s a Japanese Touring Car Championship racer in which Yaguchi scored seat time back in
– Folks, you might as well settle in for the medium haul: Chevrolet’s naughty multi-part tease of the sixth-generation 2016 Camaro leading up to the car’s big debut at May 16 continues. Having already confirmed the latest iteration of the muscle car will get Corvette power, a Cadillac chassis, and weigh less than before, Chevy has revealed yet another nugget of 2016 Camaro info: It’ll be stiffer. Well, its structure
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– Los Angeles is a city built by and built around cars. And as is well known, there are a lot of cars there. Thing is, every driver of every car in L.A. eventually needs to find a place to park. Alas, finding a spot—at least of the legal, on-street variety—is a task not easily done nor understood. Behold L.A.’s new, simplified parking signs that convey parking restrictions in multicolor grid
