OMAHA, Neb. — UCLA’s offense showed up this time, which meant Mississippi State never had a chance.
Eric Filia drove in a career-high five runs, Nick Vander Tuig limited Mississippi State to five hits in eight innings, and UCLA won its first national championship in baseball with an 8-0 victory Tuesday night.
Smarter headlights could guide you out of a rainstorm, but intelligent tail lights could enable communication between vehicles. At least, that’s the idea behind a collaborative Connected Vehicle Safety project between Intel and National Taiwan University. Its purpose is so that you’ll be able to know just what the vehicles around you are up to — whether they’re speeding or braking or making a left — by receiving data from their tail lights. Your vehicle could then stop or accelerate automatically without you needing to intervene, or you could choose to react manually if desired. We saw a demonstration of the concept at a Research @ Intel event in San Francisco with a couple of scooters, so head on past the break to learn how it all works, with video to boot.
By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) – America’s top court was expected to deliver rulings on Wednesday in two high-profile cases with national implications on gay marriage, an issue that stirs cultural, religious and political passions in the United States as elsewhere.
At 10 a.m. (1400 GMT), the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were due to convene in Washington to issue rulings in the last three cases of its current session, two of them on same-sex marriage.
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You usually know an advertisement for McDonald’s when you see it. Ethnically diverse group of friends who stay impossibly thin even though they eat at Mickey D’s, perfectly dressed burgers and fries that you can almost smell, internal monologues about the deliciousness of the food, so on and so forth. These ads are not like that. They’re abstract animations that show McDonald’s in a completely different way.
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As Texas state senator Wendy Davis attempted a marathon filibuster to kill a harsh abortion bill in the state legislature, an outpouring of reaction flooded Twitter.
Tweeting with the hashtag #StandWithWendy, politicans, celebrities and others offered Davis words of support and encouragement as she attempted a 13-hour filibuster to stave off Texas’ 20-week abortion ban.
Below, some of their reactions:
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