Rideshare giant Uber and one of its drivers have been ordered by an arbitrator to pay $40 million in damages to the parents of a 23-year-old woman, Emily Normandin-Parker, who was struck and killed by traffic after the cab driver kicked her and her friend out of the cab on a California freeway. The ruling,…
Harsh Jaiswal (left) and Rahul Maini. Three Indian-origin cybersecurity researchers, Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati and Rahul Maini, demonstrated how Anthropic’s Claude AI could be used to exploit vulnerabilities and gain access to OpenAI employee accounts and the company’s internal code repository, Wall Street Journal reported.The researchers, who work at cybersecurity startup Hacktron AI, carried out…
At an age when most children were still figuring out what they wanted to do after school, Maya Penn was already making and selling her own accessories. The Atlanta youngster began with handmade headbands created from materials available at home, then gradually turned that small experiment into ‘Maya’s Ideas’, a business centred on clothing and…
Image: Dale Anderson, Project Survival’s Cat Haven A black jaguar named Samba at Project Survival’s Cat Haven, a wild cat conservation facility in Dunlap, California, has died following a venomous snake bite. The 14-year-old jaguar, born at the sanctuary, was rushed for emergency veterinary care after staff noticed swelling in one leg. Despite receiving antivenom…
Solar plants are currently being touted as the future bitcoins for economies and the environment. As futuristic as the approach towards them may be, they still rely on a process that is extremely traditional. Teams arrive at the site, move structures and install thousands of components to make up a structure that can span hundreds…
In the Everglades, the disappearance of mammals is changing more than the animals that remain. Burmese pythons have spread through southern Florida and prey heavily on medium-sized and larger mammals, leaving a wildlife community that is less varied than it once was. That change may also be altering the way mosquitoes encounter the animals they…
Carinne Meyrignac turned a simple idea sparked by motherhood into a children’s publishing business generating millions in annual revenue. After discovering musical books in France that kept her young daughter engaged, she returned to Los Angeles and struggled to find similar products. In 2016, she decided to create her own interactive musical books, launching Cali’s…
Hooper Island Lighthouse. Image Credit: WBOC For more than a century, the 1902 Hooper Island Lighthouse has stood three miles offshore in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Years of exposure have left the historic structure badly in need of repair, but its latest owner sees an opportunity to give it a new purpose. Pennsylvania painter Rich Cucé…
Two people can look at the same career and weigh its achievements using completely different scales. One treats a small number of high-stakes tournament results, especially a World Cup title, as the single decisive measure of greatness, the tiebreaker that settles any debate regardless of everything else on the résumé. The other argues that a…
The card received a BVG grade of 2.5, described as Good+ A $25 piano bought in Maryland in 1992 turned out to be hiding 112 baseball cards, including a 1916 Babe Ruth rookie card. The card was found inside a stuck pedal and remained with the buyer for 27 years before being put up for…
