A full-time COVID-19 vaccination site opened on the campus of Santa Ana College Wednesday, Feb. 17, to target doses at residents – for now seniors – living in some of Orange County’s neighborhoods hit hardest by the coronavirus. Orange County has been operating “Super PODs” (points of dispensing) at Disneyland …
Read More »Southend postal woes delay mum’s medication deliveries
COVID-19 has left parts of Southend battling against long post delays with a mum revealing she now has to order medication a month in advance. Thousands of residents have battled delays with at least four Southend postcodes impacted, Melanie Starbrook, from Shoebury, orders her regular medication from Pharmacy2U, delivered by …
Read More »Splatoon 3 is coming to the Nintendo Switch — in 2022
Splatoon 3 could be great, but it’s not a 2021 game. Nintendo/screenshot by CNET The latest Nintendo Direct was full of raised expectations for big games, but mostly it was third-party games (aside from Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword HD and Mario Golf). But one big franchise is …
Read More »Nintendo announces Splatoon 3 – Polygon
Splatoon 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch. As the final game announced during Nintendo’s Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday, there wasn’t much shown beyond a trailer featuring an early character creation scene and some melancholic shots of ruined cityscapes — which hint at some possible single-player gameplay in addition to …
Read More »You’ve got greener mail! – Energy Live News
What if our letters and packages arrived at our doors at a minimum carbon footprint? Royal Mail has announced it will deploy technology to 11,000 small vans that will enable to cut emissions and save fuel. The telemetry systems are designed to encourage more fuel-efficient and safer driving styles by monitoring …
Read More »Making the case for COVID-19 vaccine passports: A shift to data democracy
IBM has outlined how a blockchain-based digital health “passport” could allow society to reopen without the need to expose our private medical data. After a year of lockdowns, millions of cases worldwide, and both social and economic devastation, COVID-19 continues to make its presence known. Thanks to the efforts of …
Read More »US announces charges against North Korean hackers for sweeping hacking scheme
The Justice Department unsealed charges Wednesday for three North Korean computer programmers accused of conspiring to extort over $1.3 billion from banks and other businesses across the globe, as first reported by The Washington Post. In 2018, the Justice Department brought charges against one North Korean operative, Park Jin Hyok, …
Read More »Harry and Meghan Return to the Spotlight With Oprah Interview
LONDON — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, chose Valentine’s Day to announce they were expecting their second child, confirming the happy news with a dreamy black-and-white photo of themselves posed under a tree — a barefoot Harry stroking Meghan’s hair, her baby bump only slightly smaller than her smile. …
Read More »Ford says it will go all-electric in Europe by 2030
Ford will only sell electric vehicles in Europe by 2030, it said Wednesday. The automaker said it will spend $1 billion to convert its factory in Cologne, Germany, into its first EV production line on the continent. Ford says it will transition to EV-production gradually over the next decade. By …
Read More »I looked in my son’s closet – Orange County Register
So I did something the other day that I try hard to never do: I entered my son’s bedroom. The doctor has ordered me to avoid stress, so in my world that means staying as far away as possible from the interior of my adult children’s rooms. They could have …
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