Canada’s Roots announced on Friday sales were up 6.7% to $40 million in the first quarter, on the back of higher direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales during the three months. Roots Q1 sales climb to $40M. – Roots The lifestyle brand said DTC sales, made up of retail store and e-commerce sales, were $34.6 million, a 10.2% increase…
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), developed at the University of Cambridge, is one of the world’s earliest general-purpose computers. Volunteers at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, UK, have been constructing a working replica of an EDSAC machine. Once complete, it will be able to run EDSAC software that was published…
Damselflies can’t smile – but their wide-open mandibles make them appear to be grinning broadly or even sticking out their tongue, says Benjamin Salb, who photographed one of the insects, pictured above, at a pond in his local park in Gaithersburg, Maryland, last year. It is among Salb’s winning and commended entries in the Royal…
Topline Authorities arrested a man suspected of killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and shooting another, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced late on Sunday, a day after he described the incident as a “politically motivated assassination.” This photo made available by the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office shows Vance Luther Boelter, the man … More accused of…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: A first-term House GOP firebrand is arguing that state governors who run afoul of federal immigration laws should be arrested. “I think if they are openly flouting federal law and obstructing federal law enforcement, then that’s something we should consider,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, told Fox…
MEXICO CITY — Alex Bowman winced as he lowered his body into a seat in the drivers meeting Sunday, the pain in his right lower back and leg a result of his high-speed head-on crash the previous week in Michigan. He said on Saturday that it was painful sitting in his car. Just sitting in…
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computer John Brecher/Microsoft Last month Microsoft announced, with fanfare, that it had created a new kind of matter and used it to make a quantum computer architecture that could lead to machines “capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades”. But since then, the tech giant has increasingly come…
An artist’s impression of an environment where prehistoric plants thrived Christian Jegou/Science Photo Library When the Earth Was GreenRiley Black (St Martin’s Press (US, available now; UK, later this month)) The behaviour of plants is invisible to the naked human eye. They operate on timescales our imaginations can’t entertain, and they run roughshod over familiar categories…
Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have accused the Covid inquiry of an “establishment cover-up” after their second attempt to be given an official role in the inquiry was rejected. The couple claimed they were the targets of a “politically motivated witch hunt” after the inquiry’s chairwoman, Baroness Hallett, refused their application to be…
Canada’s Mark Carney will host world leaders in Kananaskis in coming days, with his plans for a unity G7 summit to unblock trade at the mercy of a new Mideast war and the temperament of Donald Trump. More than a dozen leaders are heading to the Rocky Mountain resort for a gathering on Monday under…
