Police: Man killed roommate, then shot neighbor, paramedic

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Police: Man killed roommate, then shot neighbor, paramedic

DALLAS (AP) — A 36-year-old man with a criminal history killed his roommate, shot his neighbor and opened fire on responding paramedics in a Dallas neighborhood during an attack that prompted police to barricade the area for hours, investigators said Tuesday.

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Wall Street fears end of boom as automakers' April U.S. sales drop

DETROIT (Reuters) - Major automakers on Tuesday posted declines in U.S. new vehicle sales for April in a sign the long boom cycle that lifted the American auto industry to record sales last year is losing steam, sending carmaker stocks down.

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IS attack kills dozens at Syria camp

A jihadist assault led by suicide bombers killed dozens Tuesday at a camp for the displaced near Syria's border with Iraq, as pressure grows on the Islamic State group in both countries. The violence left at least 46 people dead and came as another surprise IS attack on Tuesday killed 10 soldiers in Iraq, to the south along the border. As the tolls mounted, US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the need for "safe zones" in Syria in a telephone call, said the White House.

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16 Healthier Ways To Eat Eggs

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This is the stupidest thing on Microsoft’s new laptop

Microsoft has a new laptop. It's called the Surface Laptop, and it appears to do many things well. It's basically a spiritual successor to the MacBook Air, but more quirky, because it comes in various colors and has fabric on the keyboard.

Unfortunately, Microsoft took its rather good-looking laptop out behind the woodshed and murdered it with one particularly dumb choice: there's no USB-C port.

Microsoft chose to go with its proprietary magnetic charger, a USB-A port, a miniDisplayPort, and a headphone jack. Apple was lambasted (and rightly so) for the lack of ports on its new MacBook, but at least it had an explanation: USB-C is the future, therefore we're just going to stick only USB-C ports on our futuristic laptop.

Microsoft's approach seems to just be to give a stiff middle finger to common sense.

USB-C is the future. It's not the only port you need right now -- chances are you still have a whole bunch of things that use USB-A -- but it is a fantastic standard for the future. The port is tiny, you can connect it both ways, and it's incredibly powerful. You can use it to charge device, you can use it to hook up a laptop to a monitor and charge it with just one cable. You can use the same cable that you use to charge your phone to charge your laptop.

Even better, using USB-C for charging gives people choice over chargers. I've been using a tiny USB-C charger for my laptop for months now, and it really does feel like the future. Remember when cellphones used to have proprietary chargers, and then everyone switched to microUSB and the world became a better place? That's what's about to happen with laptops, but Microsoft apparently doesn't want to be a part of it.

During the education-focused event, Microsoft said that the Surface Laptop would be "just as good on graduation day as day one." As USB-C infiltrates portable hard drives, projector hookups, flash drives and phone cables, Surface Laptop-toting students are going to be left behind. That's the opposite of what Microsoft wants, and I just don't understand.

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