Michael Laughlin / Sun Sentinel / MCT / ZUMAPRESS.comLeBron James holds the NBA-championship trophy after the Miami Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder 121-106 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on June 21, 2012
It seemed inevitable, this Miami Heat championship. Going into the lockout-shortened NBA season, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh had a year of experience playing together and a humbling finals loss to the Dallas Mavericks to motivate them. Read More...
The aviation graveyard is littered with superlative aircraft that didn’t stay in the air for long. There’s Howard Hughes’ “Spruce Goose,” then the largest plane ever built and designed as a military hauler, which flew just once (a very generous definition of “flew”), but arrived too late for its intended role in World War II. There’s the Concorde, among the fastest passenger airliners to ever fly, which succumbed to high operating costs and noise rules spurred by its deafening supersonic boom. Read More...
Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that's ballooned in popularity since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, said on Wednesday it had deactivated an activist group's account for hosting a Tiananmen Square memorial event. The US-based group, called Humanitarian China, hosted a 31st anniversary event to commemorate Tiananmen Square on May 31, Axios reported . The group is headed up by Zhou Fengsuo, a former student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests which culminated in a massacre of protesters on June 4 of that year. Read More...
