09-09-14

Apple has announced several new wireless features for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, including faster Wi-Fi that achieves speeds of up to 3x faster than previous models. New LTE technology is also preset, allowing speeds of up to 150 Mbps.

Perhaps more importantly, Voice over LTE calling has been enabled, and can take advantage of the new Wi-Fi hardware to place calls over a Wi-Fi connection while still using your cellular phone number. T-Mobile is one of the first carriers rolling this out in the United States.

The iPhone 6 will operate on over 200 carriers on 20 different LTE bands.

Washington Huskies cornerback Marcus Peters, one of the standouts in UW’s suspiciously thin defense, reportedly has been suspended for the upcoming game against Illinois after he threw a tantrum on the sidelines Saturday.

Peters, a junior who is expected to be a first-rounder in the NFL draft, argued with assistant coaches then threw his gloves and helmet to the ground after head coach Chris Petersen benched him partway through Saturday’s wild 59-52 victory over Eastern Washington at Husky Stadium. 

Rick Price

At lunch on Thursday, a student at Ferris High School noticed that the sour cream she put on her nachos was a little runny. So the senior looked at the expiration date, and noticed it expired in July. 

She took it up to the lunch lady, and told her about the problem. The lunch lady then took all of the sour cream tubes out of service and gave the student a free lunch. The student came home and told her mother, who called the school.

In 1972, midway on a bicycle trip from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, the idea came to them. Dan and Lys Burden and their friends Greg and June Siple would enlist bicycling enthusiasts from the United States and from around the world to pedal from Oregon to Virginia during the summer of 1976, as a celebration of the Bicentennial. Over 4,000 cyclists joined them for this "Bikecentennial," 2,000 of them bicycling clear across the continent.