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Top News Stories for Friday, April 26th 2024
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Donald Trump has suggested that the hush money case against him has "fallen apart" following the trial's first witness testimony. In a post on Truth Social late on Thursday, the former president wrote: "BIG DAY IN COURT(S) TODAY. The Soros backed Alvin Bragg case, presided over by a highly conflicted Judge, has completely fallen apart. "Virtually every Legal Scholar and Expert has stated that there is no Crime, ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest. On April 17, students at Columbia University formed a " Gaza Solidarity Encampment " on the campus's East Butler Lawn calling for the school to divest from companies that profit from the occupation in Palestine. Their tents stood ...
Source: thenation.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
After Arizona became the fourth state to bring charges against fake electors involved in the Trump campaign's alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election Wednesday night , eyes turned to the three remaining states where the effort took place: New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Officials in New Mexico and Pennsylvania have said they are unlikely to prosecute Trump allies who sent documents to ...
Source: usatoday.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review the products and services we cover. If you buy through our links, we may get paid. CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review the products and services we cover. If you buy through our links, we may get paid. Today's rates Today's average mortgage rates on Apr. 26, 2024, compared ...
Source: cnet.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
Congress passed a bill this week that forces TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban . President Biden signed it into law Wednesday, starting a 270-day timer for TikTok to decide its future in the United States. There's been talk about a ban like this for years, but now it's actually happening. Bytedance, the owner of the app, has three paths available: It can fight the bill in court, and if it wins, then ...
Source: gizmodo.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 -
America's biggest #MeToo case was undone by controversial testimony H ARVEY WEINSTEIN , a former Hollywood mogul and public enemy number one of the #MeToo movement , is a free man again—at least as far as New York's top court is concerned. On April 25th Manhattan's Court of Appeals ruled that Mr Weinstein did not receive a fair trial when he was convicted in 2020 of felony sex-crime charges and sentenced to ...
Source: economist.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On day one of the NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns top two picks were to continue rooting for the hot Cleveland Guardians and Cavs. The Guards are leading the American League Central under their rookie manager. Cavs have taken a 2-1 game lead over the Orlando Magic in the NBA playoffs opening round, winning the first two games. While the Cavs suffered a loss Thursday night in Orlando, they only ...
Source: cleveland.com
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
For weeks, the dairy industry has been gripped by a highly contagious virus that is threatening to only get worse. Federal regulators announced this week that samples of pasteurized milk tested positive for H5N1, the strain of bird flu that has jumped from poultry to cows with one recent infection in an American. At the moment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that the country's milk supply is ...
Source: salon.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 -
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, we've gathered insights from CEOs and Founders to explore the most groundbreaking AI applications that are poised to transform business. From integrating AI with human values to harnessing AI-powered workplace knowledge, discover the diverse and innovative applications in our compilation of fourteen expert perspectives. Integrating AI with Human Values ...
Source: gritdaily.com
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 -
It comes amid strained ties between the two countries as they battle for tech supremacy, with differences over the Middle East conflict and Russia-Ukraine war. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday emphasized the need for the U.S. and China to avoid "miscalculations" and "misunderstandings." In his remarks, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said U.S.-China relations are "beginning to stabilize" with increased ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
A Maryland high school athletic director is facing criminal charges after police say he used artificial intelligence to duplicate the voice of Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the community to believe Eiswert said racist and antisemitic things about teachers and students. "We now have conclusive evidence that the recording was not authentic," Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Apr 26th, 2024 -
G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires A 2 percent levy, they say, could raise $313 billion a year to ease poverty and climate disparities. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world's 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2 percent tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise ...
Source: motherjones.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 -
Congressional Democrats are pushing for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to "swiftly" remove cannabis from Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, The Hill Led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and John Fetterman (PA) and Reps. Barbara Lee (CA) and Earl Blumenauer (OR), the lawmakers wrote their request in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. "We are now ...
Source: ganjapreneur.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 -
JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China — China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030 . The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China atop a Long March 2-F rocket at 8:59 p.m. (8:59 a.m. ET). The ...
Source: nbcnews.com
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 -
Detroit — The government's auto safety agency is investigating whether last year's recall of Tesla's Autopilot driving system did enough to make sure drivers pay attention to the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted on its website Friday that it has concerns about the December recall of more than 2 million vehicles, nearly all the vehicles that Tesla had sold at ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to approve a Final Rule (the Final Rule) that, if allowed to take effect, would ban nearly all non-competes with employees and other workers and substantially change the way that employers and investors utilize restrictive covenants with corresponding impacts in several areas, including compensation, trade secret protection and deal dynamics. The following ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The Federal Communications Commission voted during its monthly open commission meeting Thursday to restore net neutrality rules. The Hill reported that the agency voted 3-2 along partisan lines to revive the rules that expand the commission's oversight of broadband providers and reinstates a national standard for broadband reliability, security and consumer protection. The rules were first created under former ...
Source: statescoop.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The Environmental Protection Agency released long-awaited updated power plant standards Thursday, aiming to further reduce air pollution that makes people sick and the greenhouse gases emissions warming the planet. Federal officials said Wednesday that the rules would deliver on the Biden administration's commitment to provide health protections for communities, including those confronted with decades of ...
Source: usatoday.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
A hostage video released Wednesday by the military wing of Hamas appears to show a statement by an American-Israeli man who was kidnapped on Oct. 7, marking the first time the militant group has released a video showing one of the five Americans it is holding captive. The video is also the first time that Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 24, has been seen alive since the day of the Hamas-led attack on Israel, during which ...
Source: npr.org
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, Italy (AP) — Under the gaze of the world's media, the fragile lagoon city of Venice launched a pilot program Thursday to charge day-trippers a 5-euro ($5.35) entry fee that authorities hope will discourage visitors from arriving on peak days and make the city more livable for its dwindling residents. Visitors arriving at Venice's main train station were greeted with large signs ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Tupac's estate not only took issue with Drake using a clone of the rapper's voice, but added the fact it was used in a Kendrick Lamar diss track "compounds the insult". Tupac Shakur's estate has threatened to sue Drake and ordered him to delete a track featuring an AI-generated copy of the late rapper's voice. Drake released the song Taylor Made Freestyle - a diss track aimed at Kendrick Lamar - on his Instagram ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
A dolphin was found dead on West Mae's Beach with multiple gunshot wounds. Authorities are offering up to $20,000 for information after a dolphin was found shot dead on a Louisiana beach last month. A member of the public saw the bottlenose dolphin, a juvenile, on West Mae's Beach in Cameron Parish on March 13 and called a hotline for stranded marine mammals. A necropsy revealed "multiple bullets lodged in the ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year's slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the pandemic. At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
LONDON — Two military horses that bolted and ran miles through the streets of London after being spooked by construction noise and tossing their riders were in serious condition Thursday after undergoing operations, a U.K. government official said. The animals were among a group of four horses that broke free during routine exercises Wednesday near Buckingham Palace and caused chaos as they galloped loose ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. The Campaign Legal Center watchdog is asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate the payments immediately A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission has alleged that the Trump campaign and its related political committees have potentially violated federal law by concealing who is ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 United States assesses that Russia is developing a new satellite carrying a nuclear device." Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia has plans to do just that. Russia's vote against the resolution was no surprise. As one of the five permanent ...
Source: arstechnica.com
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 -
Tennessee became the latest state to allow teachers to carry firearms inside K-12 public schools after lawmakers vowed action in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Nashville last year. Aidan Hale, a former student, entered the Covenant School on March 27, 2023, and killed three nine-year-old children and three adults before police shot the 28-year-old dead. There have been at least 15 school shootings in the ...
Source: newsweek.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 -
OpenELM mirrors efforts by Microsoft to make useful small AI language models that run locally. In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud. On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models called OpenELM that are small ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
The National Hurricane Center issued its first advisory of the year on Wednesday , a month before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season . The advisory was issued for a tropical disturbance that was far out to sea, and has since dissipated, the hurricane center said late Wednesday. The otherwise nondescript system was notable for being the first sign of what's expected to be a ferocious hurricane ...
Source: usatoday.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will withdraw dozens of Special Operations forces from Chad in the next few days, the second major blow in a week to U.S. security and counterterrorism policy in a volatile swath of West and Central Africa, U.S. officials said Thursday. The decision to pull out about 75 Army Special Forces personnel working in Ndjamena, Chad's capital, comes days after the Biden administration said ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
Alphabet's stock surges on Triple Crown of first-ever cash dividend, $70 billion stock buyback, strong results Google parent Alphabet Inc.'s stock soared 12% in after-hours trading Thursday following huge spikes in revenue and net income that trounced analysts' predictions — as well as its first-ever cash dividend of 20 cents per share. Alphabet's board also authorized the repurchase of up to $70 billion in ...
Source: marketwatch.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 -
The popular physics sandbox game Garry's Mod is pulling all of its Nintendo-related add-ons following copyright takedown requests from the gaming giant. On Wednesday, the developers of Garry's Mod made a post on Steam saying users "may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down," adding that "this is not a mistake," as the takedowns came from Nintendo. "Honestly, this is ...
Source: theverge.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 and landslides in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain have killed 155 people and injured 236 others, the country's prime minister has said, as intense downpours continue across East Africa. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa told Parliament that the El Nino climate pattern has worsened the ongoing rainy season, causing the flooding and destroying roads, bridges and railways. "The heavy El Nino rains, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday warned that Europe faced an existential threat from Russian aggression, calling on the continent to adopt a "credible" defence strategy less dependent on the United States. He described Russia's behaviour after its invasion of Ukraine as "uninhibited" and said it was no longer clear where Moscow's "limits" lay. Macron also sounded the alarm on what he described as ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON — A Secret Service special agent was removed from Vice President Kamala Harris' detail after having exhibited "distressing" behavior this week, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. The agent, whose identity has not been disclosed, had been involved with the Harris' departure from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Monday morning, when Harris was headed to Wisconsin. The agent "began displaying ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 -
It's not often that candidates attack people who endorse them, but that happened on Wednesday night when Donald Trump fired off a rant aimed at Bill Barr . Trump noted that he's said a lot of mean things about his former attorney general. After the endorsement, however, the former president took back exactly one of those insults. "I called him 'Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy,'" Trump wrote in a ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
Surgeons in the United States have transplanted a modified pig kidney into a living person for the second time, a hospital said Wednesday , celebrating an advance in animal-to-human organ transplants. The procedure at NYU Langone Health in New York was carried out in April on Lisa Pisano, 54, who had suffered heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, with doctors giving her just weeks to live barring some kind of ...
Source: sciencealert.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 -
Seeing a female doctor could be better for longevity , according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Monday. Both male and female patients have a greater chance of death or readmission within 30 days under the care of a male physician, but the risk is much greater for women, the findings show. Researchers drew a sample of 800,000 Medicare patients ages 65 and older admitted to hospitals from ...
Source: usatoday.com