IOC member says 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed because of coronavirus pandemic Veteran International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound told USA TODAY Sports on Monday afternoon that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic. “On the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided,” Pound said in a phone interview. “The paramet

Coconut oil is 'pure poison,' Harvard professor says in talk on nutrition A lecture by a Harvard professor calling coconut oil "pure poison" has gone viral on YouTube, nearing 1 million views on Wednesday. In a talk titled "Coconut oil and other nutritional errors," Karin Michels, who is an adjunct professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says coconut oil is not heal

Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy dead at 42; Lil Wayne, Ciara mourn loss Rapper Prodigy, a member of the New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, has died at 42. Prodigy's publicist confirmed to the Associated Press that Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in Las Vegas "for complications caused by a sickle cell anemia crisis." The rapper, who was born Albert Johnson in New York, had battled sickle cell since b

SAN FRANCISCO — The Amazon Go grocery store, now in the testing stage in Seattle, sounds like a dream come true for holiday shoppers waiting in long lines. The underlying technology seems to be routed in terra firma, however, a mix of cameras, microphones and the massive servers that Amazon uses to run its cloud computing service and power digital assistant Alexa. The concept promises to let shopp

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