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Last year, Apple announced Safety Check, a new iOS security feature designed to quickly show you all the information (location, credentials, etc.) you're sharing with someone else, and instantly revoke those permissions in the case of domestic abuse.Safety Check, however,...

Published January 23, 2023 For Tavey Capps, there’s much more to Duke than higher education, athletics and health care. As executive director of Climate and Sustainability at Duke, Capps sees it more like a city unto itself, with a complex...

After Genesis and DCG entered the spotlight, most recently with the bankruptcy filing, Binance has been enjoying a welcome retreat. Criticism dwindled and things became quieter – until today. Head of Product Business Operations at Coinbase Conor Grogan made some...

Rick Bannan / rick@thereflector.com State transportation officials heard about the latest developments for the project to replace the aging Interstate 5 Bridge over the Columbia River last week, with concerns over the updated cost range and the timing of determining...

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo for Twitter is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Crown Estate, an...

Comment on this storyCommentFossil-fuel companies’ climate messaging may have changed to fit the new century, but the goal is the same the industry has had for  decades: to delay action and protect profits for as long as possible. Even in the face...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- The Department of the Air Force has selected Howard University as the first Historically Black College or University to lead a University Affiliated Research Center.   The center will be focused on tactical autonomy technology for military...

M&M's announced it is putting iconic characters on an "indefinite pause" and replacing them with actress Maya Rudolph.       READ SOURCE...

On January 13, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Office of Chief Counsel published Memorandum 202302011 titled “pplicability of I.R.C. section 165 to cryptocurrency that has declined in value.”1 The Memorandum contains “advice regarding the applicability of section 165 of...

Banks have completed the transfer of ₹9,234 crore of Jaypee Infratech loan to the National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL), marking the first acquisition for the government-backed bad-loan aggregator a year after the company started operations.IDBI Bank CEO Rakesh Sharma confirmed...

Richard Sharp’s selection as BBC chair is the subject of two separate investigations, amid allegations he helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of up to £800,000 weeks before he was recommended for the job by the then prime minister.The appointment...

Nigeria’s fight to overturn an $11.1bn arbitration award - more than the country's most recent budget for its health and justice ministries - over a failed gas processing project opened today in the Business and Property Court in London.  Federal...

Microsoft has announced a deepening of its partnership with the company behind the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT by announcing a multibillion dollar investment in the business.It said the deal with OpenAI would involve deploying the company’s artificial intelligence models across...

Mr Sharp said he welcomed the commissioner's review. The top civil servant at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Sarah Healey, has already said she has been asked to submit documents about the hiring to Mr Shawcross in...

London doctors helped to save the life of a premature baby who was expected to die a few hours after being born when surgeons discovered she had a dead bowel. Deborah and Dominic La Spina said they do not believe...

Randy had an 850 credit score. According to FICO, the most popular scoring model, that's as good as it gets.Still, a line on his credit report said he could lower his utilization rate, so he promptly paid off the remainder...

British households and businesses will be paid to cut their electricity use again as National Grid aims to reduce the strain on the energy network.The electricity system operator (ESO) said on Monday it was looking for bids from suppliers to...

Cal State Fullerton President Framroze “Fram” Virjee is retiring at the end of the school year, university officials announced Monday. Virjee was appointed in March 2019 to lead the largest Cal State in the system after serving as interim president...

Dignity approves £281m takeover by investor consortium fronted by funeral group's former boss Gary ChannonThree previous takeover proposals were rejected by Dignity's board last yearThe new bid represents a 29.2% premium to Dignity's share price on 3 January Sir Peter Wood,...

Last week, San Diego-based biotech company Rejuvenate Bio announced the startling results of a Harvard Medical School Lab study it had conducted - age reversal. Yes, it's not just an anti-ageing jab but an actual age-reversal process that rejuvenates cells,...

The most important decision we all have to make in life, to die without having suffering and mental torment forced on us by politicians or religious zealots, is again threatened. Polly Toynbee’s article is excellent (Today, 17 people will likely...

When teacher Angela Ratcliffe started treatment for breast cancer, she started wearing funny wigs to help her children come to terms with her hair loss.She hoped to raise a smile and raise cash for the Breast Cancer Now campaign.And now...

Introduction to decentralised identities, or DIDs and the non-fungible token (NFTs) space. Decentralised identity and use of zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) innovation. Other benefits, including protection for the regular user. There is still a lot of “wild west” in decentralised finance...

The UK’s first all-electric autonomous passenger bus drives around Milton Park, a business and science hub near Didcot, Oxfordshire (Picture: PA)The UK’s first self-driving electric bus service has been unveiled as part of a project to explore ‘the art of...

“Combustion is the problem – when you’re continuing to burn something, that’s not solving the problem,” says Prof Mark Jacobson.The Stanford University academic has a compelling pitch: the world can rapidly get 100% of its energy from renewable sources with,...

The UK energy regulator Ofgem is to investigate suppliers forcibly switching vulnerable customers to prepayment meters. Jonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem, said on Monday that the regulator did not have legal powers to completely ban forced installations of prepayment...

Signage on a Saleforce office building in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJeff Ubben's Inclusive Capital has taken a position in Salesforce, according to sources, CNBC's David Faber reported Monday.It's...

Ubitricity plans to add 300 charging points to Liverpool, UK, lampposts, with each 5-kW charging point requiring under two hours to install. This type of curbside charger is aimed at apartment dwellers in cities who do not have overnight charging...

Jan 23 (Reuters) - New York’s chief financial regulator is set to release new guidance on Monday dictating that companies separate customers' crypto assets from their own, after alleged co-mingling of funds at collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its affiliated...