It was the beginning of 2021 when Greg Lavender, at the time the chief technology officer at VMware, received a career-altering phone call from then-CEO Pat Gelsinger. Gelsinger, who had steered VMware for more than eight years, would be leaving the cloud-computing firm to return to chip maker Intel, where he had spent three decades […]
Children contending with life-threatening illnesses receive the playhouses of their dreams through a program coordinated by students in the Project Management Club at Bryant University. Project Playhouse taps into community partnerships with area vocational high schools, local and national businesses and The Tomorrow Fund. The houses are delivered to the kids’ homes. Brock Nowicki, a […]
Vets at a Hampshire zoo have described the challenge of carrying out root canal work on a 170kg tiger. The team at Marwell Zoo near Winchester, Hampshire, carried out the treatment after male Amur tiger Bagai broke a tooth. A spokeswoman for the zoo said: “A trip to the dentist isn’t anybody’s idea of fun […]
Backers of Nikki Haley’s quest for the Republican presidential nomination are pouring money into states that hold early March nominating contests in a bid to keep her candidacy alive, regulatory filings and pro-Haley political operatives said. Those efforts have ramped up in recent days and reflect a growing belief that Ms Haley will not pull […]
A Florida firefighter has died after battling a severe COVID-19 infection for more than two years, his department said. Charles “Chuck” Westphal, 53, was a driver engineer with Marion County Fire Rescue until his death on Feb. 4, the department said in a Feb. 5 Facebook post. “Chuck’s courage, dedication, and indomitable spirit have left […]
Iceland’s president said the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature”, after molten lava from a volcano in the island’s south-west consumed several houses in the evacuated town of Grindavik. Icelandic resident Gudni Th Johannesson said in a televised address on Sunday that “a daunting period of upheaval has begun on the Reykjanes peninsula”, where […]