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A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).
By comparing previous aftershock sequences in California against a decay rate equation, the Northridge aftershock activity was highly energetic but decayed marginally quicker than average. The strongest aftershock, measuring M w 5.9, was recorded one minute after the mainshock. These aftershocks were distributed in three zones; the first zone ...
2024 CrowdStrike incident. On 19 July 2024, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows computers running the software. As a result, roughly 8.5 million systems crashed and were unable to properly restart [1] in what has been ...
Next door in Wisconsin, the Badger State's Senate race was set on Tuesday. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., won her primary as she seeks a third term in office, and businessman Eric Hovde clinched the ...
Computer bridge is the playing of the game contract bridge using computer software. After years of limited progress, since around the end of the 20th century the field of computer bridge has made major advances. In 1996 the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) established an official World Computer-Bridge Championship, to be held annually ...
Blaze and the Monster Machines is a CGI-animated computer-animated interactive children's television series with a focus on teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) that premiered on Nickelodeon on October 13, 2014.
Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. On March 26, 2024, at 1:28 a.m. EDT (05:28 UTC), the main spans and the three nearest northeast approach spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across the Patapsco River in the Baltimore metropolitan area of Maryland, United States, collapsed after the container ship Dali struck one of its piers.
The North Tower (WTC 1) was the first building to be hit when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into it at 8:46 a.m., [a] causing it to collapse at 10:28 [e] after burning for one hour and 42 minutes. [f] At 9:03 a.m., [g] the South Tower (WTC 2) was struck by United Airlines Flight 175; it collapsed at 9:59 a.m. [h] after burning for 56 minutes.