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First-gen iPhone sells at auction for $190K — about 380 times its original price

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

A first-generation iPhone has sold at auction for $190,373, almost 380 times its original price of $499 when the groundbreaking device went for sale in 2007.LCG Auctions, which hosted Sunday’s sale, said the 4GB iPhone model was 20 times rarer than the 8GB model released at the same time for $599. That’s largely because the 4GB model was discontinued two months after launch given customer preference for the larger memory size.“A new bar was set Sunday night,” said Mark Montero, the founder of LCG Auctions. “We are thrilled to be a part of this fantastic record breaking sale.”It is the third original iPhone to sell for record prices at auction in the past year. An 8GB model sold for $63,356 in February and another 8GB model fetched $39,340 in October 2022. All were factory sealed in their original packaging.The iPhone is one of the world’s most successful electronic products and helped make Apple the first publicly held company with a $3 trillion market value....

Tiroteo masivo deja a 5 personas heridas en Filadelfia, según la policía

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

Al menos cinco personas resultaron heridas en un tiroteo masivo en Filadelfia el martes por la noche, dijo la policía.El tiroteo ocurrió en la cuadra 500 de East Wyoming Street. La policía indicó que al menos tres hombres y dos mujeres resultaron con heridas después de que un pistolero abrió fuego.Las autoridades aún no han revelado las condiciones de las víctimas, qué condujo al tiroteo o si se realizaron arrestos.El incidente ocurrió poco más de dos semanas después de que otro tiroteo masivo en Filadelfia dejara cinco muertos, incluido un adolescente, y dos niños heridos.Esta noticia está en desarrollo. Regresa para actualizaciones.Source

“Hay que hacer algo”: 4 heridos, 1 fallecido en tiroteos separados en DC

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

Cuatro personas resultaron heridas y un hombre murió el lunes por la noche en dos tiroteos en Washington, DC, informó la policía. La violencia ocurrió el mismo día en que Pamela Smith prestó juramento como la nueva jefa de policía del Departamento de la Policía Metropolitana. El hombre que murió fue hallado en el vecindario de Brookland, a media cuadra de la Universidad Católica, poco antes de las 10 p.m.Los oficiales respondieron a un tiroteo y encontraron a una víctima en Seventh Street NE y Monroe Street NE que había recibido varios disparos. La víctima no respondía y murió a causa de sus heridas.Las autoridades identificaron al fallecido como Robert Lavender, de 44 años, del sureste de DC.No está claro qué llevó al tiroteo. Tras una investigación inicial, la policía indicó que no cree que el tiroteo estuviera relacionado con la universidad.Un poco más de una hora después, sobre las 11:15 p.m., los oficiales respondieron a otra balacera en la cuadra 1200 de Barnaby Terrace SE.Tre...

City of Kingston Arts Fund grants brought before council

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

Editor’s note; the station this journalist is affiliated with, CFRC 101.9FM , received a project grant of $15,000 from the City of Kingston Arts Fund program.The recommendations for the 2023 City of Kingston Arts Fund have been approved by council, but not without concerns raised about this year’s allocation of funding. First established in 2007, The City of Kingston Arts Fund (CKAF) consists of both Operating Grants and Project Grants allocated each year by the Kingston Arts Council (KAC) to support local arts. Applications are reviewed and assessed each year by peer juries and decisions are made by the Kingston Arts Council and the city. This year’s grants consisted of a total of $619,345 to be distributed to successful applicants. The grant recipients and their respective amounts are as follows:2023 Operating Grant RecipientsAgnes Etherington Art Centre | $75,000Cantabile Choirs of Kingston | $29,534Centre culturel Frontenac | $13,464H’art Centre | $...

Analysis: Here’s how the Hollywood actors’ strike will impact the Canadian film industry

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

By: Ramona Pringle, Toronto Metropolitan University ListenHollywood actors went on strike on July 14, joining film and television writers who have been on the picket lines since May. It’s the first time actors and writers have picketed together since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was the president of the Screen Actors Guild.Following failed talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced the strike at a press conference on July 13.At the heart of the negotiations between the union and the guild are two key issues: residual payments in the streaming era and the ownership of an actor’s likeness if it’s reproduced by artificial intelligence. The union is calling for fairer pay splits and tighter AI regulations over these issues.This strike is a watershed moment for the entertainment industry, marking a turning point for the future of labour in the arts. But it will also have...

Englewood police involved in shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Englewood Police Department was involved in a shooting after an hourslong "tactical operation," the department tweeted on Tuesday night.The situation developed on the 4100 block of S. Cherokee Street around 3 p.m. and a reverse 911 was sent to nearby residents to shelter in place. 1 killed in Highlands Ranch shooting About an hour later, EPD tweeted "W. Oxford Avenue is now closed between S. Bannock Street and S. Delaware Street."EPD continued to warn residents to stay out of the area.At 9:12 p.m., the department tweeted that the situation had "turned into an officer-involved shooting."FOX31 has a crew heading to the scene and updates will be provided as they are received.

Mysterious sounds in ceiling likely uninvited guests terrifying renter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

NORTHGLENN, Colo. (KDVR) -- You’re watching TV and getting ready for bed and you hear a mysterious scratching sound in the walls or the ceiling. You could be hosting some uninvited guests.Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials get plenty of calls about bears, foxes and other animals entering residential areas but the smaller ones can make themselves at home in tighter spaces.One Northglenn renter told FOX31 she became concerned when she heard strange noises in her ceiling.“It sounds like seven raccoons. I don’t know what’s up in there,” she said. Cat that lived at Coors Field for 10 years needs a new home The renter said the sounds were disturbing to her pet and eventually caused her to fear what could happen next.“Terrified, yes because like you see the indentation in the ceiling like they’re going to come through,” she said.The Problem Solvers have been called by frightened renters who have discovered glowing eyes in the dark in their attic to later discover a family of raccoons ...

1 dead after 3-vehicle crash involving dump truck in Aurora

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A driver is dead after a three-vehicle crash in Aurora on Tuesday morning.According to the Aurora Police Department, the crash happened around 7:30 a.m. involving a Kenworth dump truck and two other vehicles at 11th Avenue and Piccadilly Street. A man in a Ford F150 was driving eastbound on 11th Avenue when he tried to turn left onto Piccadilly Street, according to a release from APD.Another man was driving a dump truck southbound on Picadilly Street when the Ford truck attempted to turn northbound on that road, and the two collided, APD said. 3 killed, 2 seriously injured in Aurora rollover crash The dump truck then went into the northbound lanes, crashing into another vehicle. APD said the driver of that vehicle died at the scene.After the crash, Piccadilly Street was closed in both directions for nearly four hours.The crash is still being investigated by APD's Traffic Investigation Unit, and APD is asking anyone with information or dashboard camera footage to c...

Act now: Amendments to packaging rules will cause ‘flood of plastic’ pollution

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

Imagine you’re in charge of regulating packaging in the European Union. You’re bringing in some new rules to reduce waste and pollution. So far, so good. But then it is revealed that an amendment mandating the reuse of packaging will cause a flood of plastic. That is exactly the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve. Do you vote for it anyway?The answer is obvious. Yet this is the exact dilemma now facing the EU, as it debates proposed amendments to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).Everyone supports what the EU wants to achieve with this regulation. But recent amendments are counterproductive. They would impose mandatory re-use rules for transport packaging in too general a way. In practice, this decision would penalize recyclable materials, like cardboard, while promoting the plastics industry.Analysis from trade association FEFCO has found that, instead of being significantly cut, the amount of unnecessary plastic transport packaging being produced will doub...

Colonial past invades EU’s Latin American summit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:10:42 GMT

The ghosts of colonial history returned to haunt European and Latin American leaders at their summit in Brussels.For the guests, four hundred years of European colonial rule, economic exploitation and slavery was front of mind. For the hosts, it was Russia’s war on Ukraine in the here and now. The divergence in views was so profound that the two sides struggled to align their thinking at their first summit in eight years — especially to find words to condemn Russia’s war of aggression in their closing communiqué.That made the two-day gathering frustrating for all concerned — but especially for leaders of the EU’s newest member states from Eastern Europe, which have their own bitter memories of Soviet imperial rule and Russian aggression.“It is actually a war of colonization,” Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš said of the 16-month-old Ukraine conflict. “There is a former colonizer, Russia, and a former colony, Ukraine. And the former overlord is trying to ta...