The home runs keep coming for Angels superstar Mike Trout, who absolutely clobbered his fifth career grand slam in a 5-1 win over the Rangers on Saturday, giving him four homers over his past three games. The Angels had been scuffling with runners in scoring position, but Trout made Rangers …

Cowboys, De Marcus Lawrence agree to $105M deal The Dallas Cowboys and defensive end De Marcus Lawrence have agreed to terms on a five-year, $105 million extension with $65 million guaranteed, NFL Networks Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo reported Friday, per sources informed of the deal. Lawrence, Mack and Aaron …

An international team of archaeologists has unearthed 5,000-year-old grains of barley and wheat at the sites of the Pitted Ware culture in Sweden and the Aland archipelago (Finland). The researchers suggest that these hunter-gatherers adopted cereal cultivation from farmers of the Funnel Beaker culture and brought it to islands beyond …

  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a well-known interest in space after founding Blue Origin, his own private space firm. Now, Amazon is reportedly on the verge of launching thousands of satellites that would provide global internet access. The effort, known as Project Kuiper, looks like a direct challenge to …

  The US government’s battle with Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE has persuaded MIT to suspend collaboration with both companies. In a letter to faculty and researchers, MIT VP for Research, Maria T. Zuber, told her colleagues that the university has instituted a new set of procedures for what …

  It can be hard to keep all the Facebook security and privacy breaches straight — there was just one earlier today, in fact. There’s already another leak of personal Facebook data, but this one didn’t come directly from Facebook. Researchers from cybersecurity firm UpGuard report that two unsecured databases …

  TSMC is reportedly on track for improved 7nm utilization in 2019, following several months of lower-than-expected order volume. The news would be welcome for the foundry given that it’s been struck by multiple issues in the past six months, including malware infections, the contamination of foundry processing chemicals that …

  Microsoft launched the Microsoft Store as the “Windows Store” with Windows 8. At the time, it had a plethora of categories like apps, music, video, and ebooks. Now, it has a much narrower focus. After previously ditching music, the Microsoft Store has dropped ebooks. It’s not hard to see …

  Intel’s new Cascade Lake Xeon servers don’t just offer a dramatic increase in core count (up to 56 cores with the latest Cascade Lake-AP CPUs). They also offer a significant increase in total memory capacity, courtesy of Optane DC Persistent Memory. Current conventional DDR4 DIMMs top out at 128GB, …

  Apple isn’t expected to have a 5G phone in-market before 2020, even though the hype-cycle on the new technology will be kicking off in 2019. That’s no big deal, in and of itself. 4G LTE modems took time to mature and early models sucked far more power than later …