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Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
The ex-National Enquirer publisher is set to take the stand again after his revelations about killing stories about other A-listers. David Pecker , much like Arnold Schwarzenegger , will be back. On Friday, the former National Enquirer boss will take the stand for the fourth time this week in Donald Trump 's hush money trial to face a second grilling from the former president's defense team. Pecker, the former CEO ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Mayor Michelle Wu defended Boston police's handling of a pro-Palestinian demonstration near Emerson College that culminated early Thursday morning with mass arrests and the breakup of a tent encampment, but other city politicians and some advocates criticized the action as unnecessarily harsh. "The goal was always to uphold and respect, safe, peaceful protests in the city," Wu told the Globe after the arrests of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
The indictment against the slate of fake electors in Arizona and the allies who advanced the scheme there includes a host of public statements and private exchanges that show how the group intended to overturn the state's electoral votes for in 2020. Arizona's Democratic attorney general Kris Mayes announced Wednesday that a state grand jury charged the 11 false electors and seven others with nine felony counts of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here . You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. The Federal Reserve's favorite inflation reading is due Friday morning. For Wall Street, the stakes are high. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index is expected to rise 2.6% for the 12 months ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
US lawmakers set the nine-month deadline on national security grounds, alleging that TikTok can be used by the Chinese for espionage. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok after a new US law put it on a deadline to divest from the hugely popular video platform or have it banned in the United States. US lawmakers set the nine-month deadline on national security grounds, alleging that ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
As support for abortion even in states as red as Kentucky and Kansas grows, the GOP appears to be breaking ranks with the hardliners In the two years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, the 50-year-long partnership between Republicans and anti-abortion activists has steadily fractured as political backlash to abortion bans has mounted. But perhaps the biggest crack emerged on Wednesday, when Arizona's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd says the overturning of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction is a "hard day for survivors". "But we live in our truth," Ms Judd told BBC News in an interview. The case against Weinstein was a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement. The New York Court of Appeals ordered a new trial, saying the original had been prejudiced by witnesses with claims unrelated to ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
The Atlanta Falcons provided the shock of the first round of the NFL draft by selecting quarterback Michael Penix Jr with the No 8 overall pick on Thursday night. The Falcons extended their recent trend of selecting offensive skill players in the first round by drafting Penix one month after signing Kirk Cousins to a four-year, $180m contract with $100m guaranteed. Using a draft slot normally targeted for players ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
A strain of bird flu known as H5N1 or highly pathogenic avian influenza has made a worrying leap to cattle herds across the US over the past month. This development has sparked "enormous concern" among health experts, including the World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist , who warned of the virus' "extremely high" mortality rate in humans. As things stand, the virus has infected more than 20 herds across ...
Source: sciencefocus.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
The company made $26.7 billion in revenue this quarter from cloud products, including Azure. Microsoft isn't slowing down its artificial-intelligence spending spree anytime soon. In its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, the tech giant said it would continue to invest in AI and cloud services because of growing demand and a rise in average spending on its cloud platform, Azure. Amy Hood, Microsoft's chief ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Investors just got a sneak peek at what the fruits of massive AI investments could look like. On Thursday, just off the heels of Meta's mixed first-quarter results that caused a dip on Wall Street, Microsoft and Alphabet just proved that there's money to be made off of artificial intelligence. Microsoft reported $21.9 billion in profits for its quarter ending on March 31, a 20% increase from the last fiscal year of ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Artificial intelligence's (AI) influence on society has never been more pronounced. Since ChatGPT became a ubiquitous feature on computer desktops in late 2022, the rapid development and deployment of generative AI and large language model (LLM) tools have started to transform industries and show the potential to touch many aspects of modern life. AI has even surpassed human-level performance on several benchmark ...
Source: weforum.org
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
April 26 (UPI) -- The Pentagon said U.S. troops have begun construction of a pier in Gaza to be used to bring much needed humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave as famine looms. "I can confirm that U.S. military vessels, to include the USNS Benavidez, have begun to construct the initial stages of the temporary pier and causeway at sea," Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Thursday. A senior ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Palestinian group Hamas has said it remains committed to achieving an agreement with Israel to end the war on Gaza , but only if its conditions including a lasting ceasefire are met. Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the group's political bureau, said that Hamas "is serious about releasing Israeli captives within the framework of an agreement" that also ensures the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken engaged in discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior Chinese officials on Friday, highlighting the importance of effective communication and also also warned the officials to prevent misunderstandings and misjudgments amidst escalating tensions between the two nations, as per an AP report. These talks occurred against a backdrop of deepening ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Around 160 long-finned pilot whales have washed up on the coast at Dunsborough, 285 kilometres (177 miles) south of Perth in western Australia. According to Parks and Wildlife Service South West (PWS), 28 whales have died. Pia Courtis, from PWS said in a statement that a number of rescue agencies were trying to help but "unfortunately the outcome for our pilot whales once they strand on the beach is generally not ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
(AP) — A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said Thursday. Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology. Experts also warned that artificial intelligence ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
The Irish tax office's 2024 priorities include working with companies to apply the global minimum tax and ensuring companies have solid plans to pay off debts. The tax office will issue domestic guidance on how the global tax's rules will work as it keeps engaging with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the intergovernmental body that came up with the tax, its annual tax report said ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will send a total of $5.6m in refunds to customers of Ring, a home camera provider, as the result of a settlement with Ring over security and privacy failings. Ring, which was bought by tech giant Amazon in 2018, reached the settlement with the FTC in 2023 over charges the company allowed employees and contractors to access consumers' private videos and failed to implement ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
TOPICS: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare for a historic launch on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft scheduled for May 6, aiming for a week-long mission at the International Space Station . NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams landed on April 25, at the Launch and Landing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a short flight from Ellington Field near NASA's ...
Source: scitechdaily.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Haley is not campaigning, but she just won almost 158,000 GOP primary votes in the critical state of Pennsylvania. Democrats think they can swing many of them to Biden. Nikki Haley suspended her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on March 6, with passive-aggressive congratulations for Donald Trump that pointedly stopped short of endorsing the former president. "In all likelihood Donald Trump will ...
Source: thenation.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Democrats Call on DEA to Act on Marijuana Reclassification as Inaction Persists. While the Department of Health and Human Services recommended last summer that cannabis no longer be considered a Schedule I controlled substance, the DEA historically has demurred from taking that step. Members of Congress on Wednesday once again pushed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to follow through on guidance to remove ...
Source: 420intel.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Almost a decade ago, pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha took to a podium in Flint, Mich. and demanded that the world pay attention to an unfolding water crisis. The city of Flint was near bankruptcy and controlled by emergency financial managers. To save money, officials decided to switch the municipal water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River on April 25th, 2014. Flint is a majority-Black city, and at the time, ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing's space program that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030. The crew took off in a capsule atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's northwest at 8:59 pm local time !1259 GMT) Thursday. By early Friday ...
Source: phys.org
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Toledo, Ohio — An Ohio man who was handcuffed and left facedown on the floor of a social club last week died in police custody, and the officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave. Police body-camera footage released Wednesday shows a Canton police officer responding to a report of a crash and finding Frank Tyson, a 53-year-old East Canton resident, by the bar in a nearby American ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Adding rat stem cells to a mouse embryo resulted in a 'hybrid brain' in which the rat cells stepped in to restore function when the mouse's sense of smell was removed, new research has shown. It's the first time one animal's cells have been used to rescue another's senses, and it represents a step forward in regenerative medicine. What even is a hybrid brain? It sounds like something lifted from the plot of a ...
Source: newatlas.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Editor's Note: A version of this story appears in CNN's Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region's biggest stories. Some Hamas officials are signaling that the militant group could give up armed struggle against Israel if the Palestinians get an independent state in territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war. The messaging suggests a softening of Hamas' position as ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched a new review of Tesla's Autopilot system, signaling apprehension that the automaker did not do enough to remedy the regulator's concerns for driver safety with its recall of 2 million cars equipped with the system in December. In a memo dated Thursday , the agency said it was opening what's known as a "recall query" and that it has "identified concerns ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
On April 23, 2024, a divided Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") voted to adopt a Final Rule banning most post-employment non-competition obligations with workers, requiring that companies issue notices to workers of the impact of the Final Rule on any non-competition obligations entered into by them. The FTC's Final Rule (the text of which begins on page 561 of Non-Compete Clause Final Rule (ftc.gov) ) is ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to restore net neutrality rules , reversing a repeal ushered through during the Trump administration. Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should not be able to discriminate against different kinds of content by blocking or throttling connection speeds or offering paid prioritization for different internet traffic. The FCC has sought ...
Source: theverge.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
April 25 (UPI) -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced a slate of new final new rules that will crack down on pollution released by power plants. The new rules regulate gas emissions for existing coal and gas plants, require new technologies, place new restrictions on the disposal of toxic waste and limit the release of mercury and other contaminants into groundwater. "By developing these standards in a ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Hamas released a hostage video on Wednesday showing a well-known Israeli-American man who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza. The video was the first sign of life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel , and its release ignited new protests in Jerusalem calling on the government to do more to secure the captives' release. In ...
Source: france24.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON – New federal rules for airlines issued this week by the federal government mean consumers will get money back if your flight is canceled or delayed, or your bags are misplaced. The Transportation Department on Wednesday issued final rules aimed at making the airline industry more accountable. Under the new rules , passengers automatically qualify for cash refunds for things like delayed flights. ...
Source: cleveland.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Ukraine has already used fresh long-range missiles secretly provided by the U.S. in Russian-controlled Crimea, according to a U.S. official, raising questions about the fate of the key Crimean Bridge that has long been in Kyiv's sights. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Wednesday that President Joe Biden had authorized sending a "significant number of ATACMS missiles" to Ukraine in February. ...
Source: newsweek.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Venice becomes the first city in the world to introduce a payment system for tourists - with officials carrying out random checks to make sure people beyond entry points have a QR code. Not everyone is happy, however. Visitors to Venice are being charged to enter the Italian city from today, under a controversial scheme. Authorities say the pilot programme is designed to discourage tourists and thin the crowds that ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Drake released a diss track against Kendrick Lamar over the weekend featuring AI-generated versions of West Coast legends Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. Tupac's estate sent Drake a letter on Wednesday threatening to sue him for using the late rapper's voice in a "blatant abuse" of his legacy, according to Billboard . "The Estate is deeply dismayed and disappointed by your unauthorized use of Tupac's voice and ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
CAMERON PARISH, Louisiana — A dolphin that was found dead on a beach last month was shot by a firearm, federal authorities say, and they're now offering a reward of up to $20,000 to find out who is responsible. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says in a news release officials with the Southeast Marine Mammal Stranding Hotline were notified about the juvenile bottlenose dolphin on March 13. ...
Source: cleveland.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The short post-pandemic uptick in U.S. births may be over, with 2023 numbers showing a decline in births. According to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just under 3.6 million babies were born in America in 2023, about 76,000 fewer than the year before. It's also the lowest number of births recorded in the United States since 1979. Demographers weren't surprised, since the ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Two Household Cavalry horses which broke free and ran through the streets of London on Wednesday are in a "serious condition," a British government minister has said. Six soldiers and seven horses were taking part in an exercise on Wednesday morning when the animals became spooked after some concrete fell off a conveyor belt being used in nearby construction work and hit the ground, according to the British Army. ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The Campaign Legal Center said in a complaint that Trump political committees had used an intermediary firm "as a conduit to conceal payments" totaling $7.2 million. A campaign watchdog group filed a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday accusing Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign and related political committees of concealing payments of $7.2 million in legal fees by paying them ...
Source: nytimes.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Business groups that represent employers are not pleased with the Federal Trade Commission's new ban on noncompete agreements and have already gone to court seeking to block it. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, joined by the Business Roundtable and the Texas Association of Business, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Texas arguing that the FTC has overstepped its legal authority in issuing the rule . The ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
It must use it wisely S ince late February Russia's army has been creeping across eastern Ukraine. First the town of Avdiivka fell—Russia's biggest advance in almost a year. Next its soldiers occupied a series of villages farther west. Russia's progress is a reflection of its overwhelming advantage in firepower: on some parts of the front line, for every shell the Ukrainians have shot at Russian lines, the ...
Source: economist.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The draft resolution, put forward by the US and Japan, sought to reaffirm a principle already set out in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. The US has warned that Russia is believed to be developing a space-based, anti-satellite nuclear weapon. Russia said it was "firmly committed" to the existing treaty. The draft, put forward on Wednesday, called on "all States, in particular those with major space capabilities, to ...
Source: bbc.co.uk
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
TikTok said Wednesday it would suspend a controversial program in the European Union that has prompted growing alarm among EU regulators. The program at issue appears within TikTok Lite, a less data-intensive version of TikTok's main app, and which contains a feature that rewards users with cash for engaging with TikTok content and app features. TikTok said it was "voluntarily" suspending the rewards program after ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Supporters of new legislation to allow some teachers to carry firearms say it will make the state's schools safer. Many parents and educators are not convinced. Devon Dixon believes guns serve a purpose. That is why she is licensed to carry and conceal firearms. She is also a mother living in the Nashville suburbs with three school-age children. She worries about their safety, especially after three 9-year-olds ...
Source: nytimes.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Why it matters: Their actions, along with the recent flurry of union activity and a still-tight labor market, are helping swing the balance of power between capital and labor in the U.S. closer to workers Yes, but: Big legal hurdles could keep these new rules from taking effect. The big picture: There's an inherent imbalance of power between employers and the individual workers who serve at their discretion — ...
Source: axios.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Apple released a new series of open-source artificial intelligence models called OpenELM which can work on devices to improve user privacy, security and experience. Apple continues to work on artificial intelligence at full speed. Finally, it launched a new series of open-source artificial intelligence models called OpenELM (. Aiming to offer users the power and functions of artificial intelligence without the need ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
April 25 (UPI) -- University of Pennsylvania scientists are predicting an estimated 33 named storms for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Scientists Michael Mann and, Shannon Christiansen and alumnus Michael Kozar made the forecast for the approaching hurricane season, which begins June 1 and runs until Nov. 30. While their target is 33 named storms, their prediction ranges between 27 and 39 this year. "We've ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
LIVINGSTONE, Zambia — Dozens of American military personnel are expected to withdraw from Chad in coming days, three senior U.S. officials said Thursday, amid a broader, involuntary reconfiguration of Washington's security policy in a volatile part of Africa. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military movements, said the repositioning could be temporary as the United States ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Alphabet beat on earnings and revenue in its first-quarter results. Revenue increased 15% from a year earlier, the fastest rate of growth since early 2022. The company also announced its first dividend and a $70 billion buyback. In this article Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet shares rallied in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported results that topped analysts' estimates, showed soaring profits in its ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Gateway Pundit's founder Jim Hoft said the site will continue publishing despite its legal and financial troubles Popular MAGA conspiracy blog Gateway Pundit is filing for bankruptcy amid a string of defamation lawsuits it is facing. The blog, which was launched in 2004, has been a hotbed of conspiracy ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against former President Donald Trump and denied Trump's motion for a new trial. Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a written opinion, said Trump's legal arguments are without merit. The judge also found that the punitive damages the jury awarded to Carroll "passes constitutional muster." Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan said in a ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Garry's Mod , a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve's Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo . As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry's Mod , are in the process of removing about 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related content from the game. In an update to Garry's Mod 's Steam page, the developers stated, "Some of you may have ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The man who fatally shot former Ohio State Buckeyes and NFL star Will Smith during a 2016 confrontation was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday in a New Orleans courtroom. Cardell Hayes, 36, was convicted for shooting Smith eight times – including seven times in the back – during an altercation following a car crash in New Orleans in 2016. Hayes claimed he fired at Smith in self-defense, ...
Source: cleveland.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
A previously unidentified hacking group — believed to be a nation-state threat actor — has attacked Cisco firewall appliances in what cybersecurity agencies believe is an espionage campaign targeting government networks and critical infrastructure. Cisco has dubbed the campaign "ArcaneDoor" and warned that it is targeting devices running its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense ...
Source: scmagazine.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Artificial sweeteners are appealing to those who want a sweet taste without the calories or health concerns associated with sugar. Yet, emerging research continues to uncover potential gut harm caused by sugar substitutes, such as neotame. A new study from Anglia Ruskin University ( ARU ) sheds light on neotame, a relatively newer artificial sweetener, and its shocking effects on the gut. How neotame wrecks havoc ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Flooding in Tanzania has killed 155 people and left at least 236 injured, the country's Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said on Thursday. More than 10,000 houses have been damaged and upwards of 200,000 people have been affected, Majaliwa told the Tanzanian parliament in the capital Dodoma. The prime minister added that "the heavy El Nino rains, accompanied by strong winds and flooding and landslides in various ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Macron warned that military, economic and other pressures could weaken EU has warned that 'Europe could die' and said the continent must form closer ties with Brexit Britain and not become 'a vassal of the US' dependent on American military back-up in the wake of Russian aggression With just three years left of his second and final term in office, the French president, 46, wants to show his critics that he retains ...
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
April 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Secret Service has dismissed an agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris after showing "distressing behavior," a spokesperson said Thursday. The agent was part of Harris' security team at Joint Base Andrews base in Maryland on Monday morning when the vice president was leaving for Wisconsin. The agent, whose identity has not been released, began acting strangely and exhibiting ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Having apparently learned that former attorney general William Barr has endorsed his candidacy, after having previously described him as childlike and unfit for office, Donald Trump accepted Barr's submission with characteristic grace. For Trump, this meant a social-media post ridiculing Barr: Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
NASA's interstellar spacecraft, Voyager 1, is coming back online, the space agency announced on April 22. After months of troubleshooting a glitch on Voyager 1 that caused the spacecraft to send home unusable data, the probe is working again and returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step, NASA said, is to enable the probe to begin returning science data. NASA ...
Source: meritalk.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Of all plastic waste pollution that can be traced back to its producer, almost a quarter can be traced back to just five major corporations, a new study has found. An international team of researchers analyzed some 1.87 million environmental plastic waste items logged between 2018 and 2022, finding more than half of the items couldn't be connected to a specific company. Of the rest, 24 percent could be traced to ...
Source: sciencealert.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
In the first medical procedure of its kind, a New Jersey woman received a new heart pump along with a kidney and thymus gland from a pig. Lisa Pisano, 54, had both heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, the latter of which required regular treatment with dialysis. However, she did not qualify for a traditional combined heart-kidney transplant because she had several chronic conditions that made her a poor ...
Source: livescience.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
IBM and HashiCorp have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion. HashiCorp's suite of products provides enterprises with extensive Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and Security Lifecycle Management capabilities to enable organizations to automate their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. "Enterprise ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
As our planet warms and urban areas expand, the threat of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue is escalating, reaching regions previously untouched by these dangerous illnesses. Now, with over half of the global population at risk, these diseases have quickly become a critical concern worldwide. The global spread of disease vectors Mosquitoes , the primary vectors for diseases like malaria and dengue, ...
Source: earth.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
Trump Media CEO renews assault on 'DJT' short sellers — but the math doesn't add up Data show the volume of short sales was stable as DJT stock was tumbling Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.'s stock was up 8% Wednesday, as the parent of former President Trump's Truth Social platform delivered its latest attack on what it's calling the "potential manipulation" of its stock by short sellers. In a regulatory ...
Source: marketwatch.com
Wednesday, Apr 24th, 2024 -
Does a physician's gender affect patient outcomes? A recently published study suggests that it does. To test that hypothesis, researchers at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine examined three years of Medicare claims data for about 458,000 female and 320,000 male patients. Approximately 31% of patients of both sexes were treated by female hospitalists . The primary outcomes they measured were 30-day mortality ...
Source: medicaleconomics.com