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Harvey Weinstein transferred from New York to California to face additional sexual assault charges SECTIONS Last Updated: Jul 21, 2021, 08:36 AM IST Share Reuters Harvey Weinstein s time in custody in California will count toward his New York sentence, officials said. LOS ANGELES: New York prison officials handed convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein over to California on Tuesday to face additional sexual assault charges, ending the former movie mogul s lengthy fight to delay his extradition. Weinstein, 69, was booked into a downtown Los Angeles jail Tuesday afternoon, records showed. He could be arraigned on 11 sexual assault counts, including four counts of rape, as early as Wednesday morning, according to his LA attorney, Mark Werksman. The district attorney s office had no immediate comment. ....
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E-Mail IMAGE: Scientists Matt Eichenfield, left, and Lisa Hackett led the team at Sandia National Laboratories that created the world s smallest and best acoustic amplifier. view more Credit: Bret Latter, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have built the world s smallest and best acoustic amplifier. And they did it using a concept that was all but abandoned for almost 50 years. According to a paper published May 13 in Nature Communications, the device is more than 10 times more effective than the earlier versions. The design and future research directions hold promise for smaller wireless technology. Modern cell phones are packed with radios to send and receive phone calls, text messages and high-speed data. The more radios in a device, the more it can do. While most radio components, including amplifiers, are electronic, they can potentially be made smaller and better as acoustic devices. ....
Tech The Everything Store, 2013, and its just-published sequel Amazon Unbound), is an old friend. When Bezos was just a smart, driven business nerd who sold books online, Brad and I would interview him for Newsweek and Time respectively. Fuller disclosure: I m the guy who nominated the bookselling nerd for Time Person of the Year. Fullest disclosure: I own an anti-Amazon T-shirt made by the HQ2 protestors in Queens ( resist, it says above a smile logo), and also own an Amazon Echo, Kindle, and Prime account. Our relationship with Amazon is as complicated as the company itself. On the one hand, Bezos is an innovator, a genius, a customer-focused obsessive; on the other, anti-union, proto-monopolist, pitiless kingpin who had to be dragged into philanthropy. But in the last four years, the hero side has receded and the villain come to the fore. So it s a comfort to read ....