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https://www.bbc.com/news A prominent supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon has accepted a plea deal in federal court for his involvement in the US Capitol riots. Jacob Anthony Chansley was one of thousands of Trump supporters who attempted to prevent the US Congress from certifying the 2020 election. Chansley pleaded guilty on Friday to one felony count of obstruction in an official proceeding. Nearly 600 people have been charged in the federal investigation of the riot. At least 36 defendants have to date pleaded guilty, eight of whom have pleaded guilty to felonies, according to CBS News. Chansley became the de facto face of the siege, pictured amid the unrest in horns and a bearskin headdress, with the American flag painted on his face. He called himself the "QAnon Shaman". QAnon is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory whose followers believe former President Donald Trump was waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media. What is QAnon? The 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol Five startling images from the US Capitol riot Chansley told the FBI he came to DC "at the request of the president that all 'patriots' come to DC". He has been in custody for eight months. His attorney Albert Watkins told the court on Friday his client was "non-violent, peaceful and possessed of genuine mental health issues". Chansley - who has made several request for his release - now claims to disavow both QAnon and Mr Trump. He is due to be sentenced in November and could face up to 51 months in prison. Supporters of the Capitol riot defendants are reportedly planning a large demonstration in DC later this month.

The massive fossil will be on display in Paris from Sept. 16 to Oct. 15. An enormous triceratops nicknamed "Big John" is expected to fetch big bucks on the auction block in France, in October. The skeleton, which is more than 66 million years old and is approximately 60% complete, is the largest triceratops ever found. It measures about 26 feet (8 meters) long; the skull, which is 75% complete, is 6.6 feet (2 m) wide. French auction house Giquello will display the massive fossil to the public from Sept. 16 to Oct. 15 at 13 Rue des Archives in Paris, Giquello representatives said in a statement. Then, on Oct. 18, the giant dinosaur fossil will make its debut appearance at the Parisian auction house Hôtel Drouot, where it will be auctioned on Oct. 21 to the highest bidder as part of Giquello's "Naturalia" auction. Big John is expected to fetch between $1.4 million and $1.8 million (1.2 million and 1.5 million euros), according to the statement. Frilled, tri-horned triceratops inhabited North America about 67 million to 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous period (145.5 million to about 65.5 million years ago). Big John lived in what is now South Dakota on an island continent called Laramidia, which formed during the latter part of the Cretaceous when a shallow sea flooded North America's central region. The fossil was discovered in 2014 by paleontologist Walter W. Stein, owner of the independent commercial paleontology company PaleoAdventures in South Dakota. Stein excavated the skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation, an ancient flood plain and a rich fossil site that spans parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. Much of the formation is on state and federal lands, according to the University of California Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley. Millions of years ago, Big John died and was covered by thick mud, which enabled the bones to fossilize. A preserved notch in his collarbone suggests that the triceratops was wounded during violent combat, possibly during a tussle with another triceratops over mates or territory, according to the statement. The other triceratops may have fared even worse in that battle: Big John's two largest horns each measure nearly 4 feet (1.1 m) long and almost 1 foot (30 centimeters) wide at the base, and can withstand about 16 tons (14.5 metric tons) of pressure, representatives said. Other dinosaur fossils have commanded even heftier price tags at auction than Big John is likely to. In October 2020, a 67 million-year-old T. rex named Stan sold at auction for a record-breaking $31.8 million, making it the most expensive fossil of all time. Sales of high-profile fossils have raised concerns among paleontologists that museums and other scientific institutions will be outbid on valuable specimens, which will then disappear into private collections and be lost to researchers, Live Science previously reported.

ln a bid to expand its CRM capabilities, online marketing company Constant Contact has bought cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) firm SharpSpring. Constant Contact focuses on online marketing, from setting up an online store to leveraging social and search features, and its new property offers contracts for digital marketing agencies. "We are pleased to welcome the SharpSpring team to Constant Contact and expand our capabilities for current customers and offer a broader set of opportunities for new customers," noted Frank Vella, CEO, Constant Contact. We've also highlighted the best ecommerce platform available Check out our list of the best website builders on the market We also have a list of the best web hosting providers right now "SharpSpring's focus on lead management will be an essential element in building Constant Contact's marketing automation platform to more holistically deliver results for small businesses." CRM business Reaching the final stages of the sale, the deal was originally announced in June 2021 and approved by SharpSpring's stockholders on August 25, 2021. As Constant Contact is a private company, the financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but is thought to be around $240m. The deal will also see SharpSpring delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange. The pair now plan to join forces to aid the expansion of Constant Contact’s CRM and marketing automation capabilities, in the hopes that the company’s SMB customers will find ease in engaging with clients throughout their buying journey and, ultimately, improve conversions. Constant Contact offers two main email marketing plans: Email, and Email Plus, and uses an AI-based site creator for its website building solution.

Android apps may be coming to an Xbox near you. Microsoft's Windows 11 will be able to run apps developed for Google's Android operating system natively (albeit not at launch) in a bid to bring useful programs and games to PCs. Apparently, the software giant might want to go even further and bring Android apps to its Xbox game consoles, too, at least according to a listing at the Microsoft Store. To let developers ensure that their Android apps work on Windows 11 and test their stability, Microsoft recently started to offer its Windows Subsystem for Android tool in its Store (as discovered by Slashgear). The program can be used on any x64 or Arm64-based device running Windows 10 version 22000.0 or higher, or on Xbox One. However, the tool is listed as 'available on PC' and cannot be found in the Xbox version of the Microsoft Store. We don't know exactly why Microsoft listed its Xbox consoles as compatible with the Windows Subsystem for Android program. Perhaps Microsoft wanted to enable Android games developers (especially for games compatible with Xbox controllers) to test them on consoles for some reason. It's also possible that Microsoft plans to bring Android games to Xbox consoles to make them more competitive with Sony's PlayStation 5. Formally, Windows 11 users will be able to discover Android apps at Microsoft Store, then buy them from Amazon's Appstore, and then run them using Intel's bridge technology that enables software developed for Arm-based SoCs and Android to run on x86 processors and Windows 11. In reality, Microsoft does not plan to implement any measures to stop users from installing Android apps obtained elsewhere on Windows 11. Meanwhile, since Microsoft's Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S systems have a lot in common with Windows, there should be hardly any technical difficulties with running Android apps on these consoles. At present, it is too early to say that Microsoft plans to enable Android apps on Xbox. In the end, productivity apps for Android could transform the latest Xbox consoles into inexpensive yet quite capable PCs, and Microsoft isn't exactly interested in this. On the other hand, if the company wants to offer platforms compatible with competing platforms, enabling Android apps on Xbox consoles is logical.