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Jul282024 by TechmanNo Comments

Can tech help solve the Los Angeles homeless crisis? Finding shelter may someday be a click away

LOS ANGELES — Billions of dollars have been spent on efforts to get homeless people off the streets in California, but outdated computer systems with error-filled data are all too often unable to provide even basic information like where a shelter bed is open on any…

Jul282024 by DmediaNo Comments

Climate change imperils drought-stricken Morocco’s cereal farmers, food supply

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KENITRA, Morocco — Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has imperiled the country's entire agriculture sector, including farmers who grow cereals and grains used to feed humans and livestock. The North African nation projects this…

Jul282024 by DmediaNo Comments

World’s largest platypus conservation center welcomes first residents

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sydney, australia — The world's largest platypus conservation center has welcomed its first residents as part of a project to protect the semi-aquatic mammal found only in Australia amid threats to its habitat from extreme weather and humans. The four platypuses — two females and two…

Jul272024 by DmediaNo Comments

Judge’s ruling temporarily allows for unlicensed Native Hawaiian midwifery

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HONOLULU — A Hawaii judge has temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a law requiring the licensing of practitioners and teachers of traditional Native Hawaiian midwifery while a lawsuit seeking to overturn the statute wends its way through the courts. Lawmakers enacted the midwife licensure law,…

Jul272024 by DmediaNo Comments

Experts: Volunteering has health benefits, especially for older adults

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Jul272024 by TechmanNo Comments

US claims TikTok collected user views on issues like abortion, gun control

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WASHINGTON — In a fresh broadside against one of the world's most popular technology companies, the Justice Department late Friday accused TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion. Government…

Jul262024 by DmediaNo Comments

NASA Mars rover captures rock that could hold fossilized microbes

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washington — NASA's rover Perseverance on Mars has made what could be its most astonishing discovery to date: possible signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. The six-wheeled robotic explorer came across an intriguing, arrow-shaped rock dubbed "Cheyava Falls" that may harbor fossilized microbes from…

Jul262024 by DmediaNo Comments

Advocates hail sub-Saharan Africa’s lead in global HIV response

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washington — Thousands of policymakers, health care professionals and advocates gathered this week in Munich, Germany, to take stock of the global fight against HIV as they try to meet the 2030 deadline set by world leaders for eliminating AIDS as a public health threat. Advocates…

Jul262024 by TechmanNo Comments

Astronomers use Webb telescope to discover new planet

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Jul252024 by TechmanNo Comments

US, Taiwan, China race to improve military drone technology

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washington — This week, as Taiwan was preparing for the start of its Han Kuang military exercises, its air defense system detected a Chinese drone circling the island. This was the sixth time that China had sent a drone to operate around Taiwan since 2023. Drones…

Jul252024 by TechmanNo Comments

Video game performers to strike over artificial intelligence concerns

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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood's video game performers voted Thursday to go on strike, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections. The strike — the second for video…

Jul252024 by DmediaNo Comments

UN chief: Earth becoming hotter and more dangerous for all

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United Nations — The U.N. Secretary-General warned Thursday that the Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, killing nearly a half-million people annually, and he blamed fossil fuels for driving global warming. “Billions of people are facing an extreme heat epidemic — wilting under…

Jul242024 by DmediaNo Comments

NASA telescope spots super Jupiter that takes more than a century to go around its star

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and it has a super orbit. The planet is roughly the same diameter as Jupiter, but with six times the mass. Its atmosphere is also rich…

Jul242024 by DmediaNo Comments

Young Ethiopian Space Program graduates aim for the skies

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A group of young African students is shooting for the stars thanks to a program called ‘Pathways to Space.’ Aerospace company Boeing and a South African science organization backed an education program that just celebrated its first batch of graduates. Vicky Stark reports from Cape…

Jul242024 by TechmanNo Comments

CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage

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Jul242024 by TechmanNo Comments

Meta takes down thousands of Facebook accounts running sextortion scams from Nigeria

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Jul242024 by DmediaNo Comments

Progress in ending world hunger set back by global crises

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Jul242024 by TechmanNo Comments

US investigates Delta flight cancellations, response to global tech outage

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Jul232024 by DmediaNo Comments

Polio at high risk of spreading within Gaza Strip

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Geneva — A senior World Health Organization official expressed alarm Tuesday at the high risk of polio spreading within the Gaza Strip because of dire sanitary conditions in the war-wracked enclave, and that the paralytic disease it causes could spill across borders without prompt action to…

Jul232024 by DmediaNo Comments

UN: Nearly 40 million had HIV in 2023, many died due to lack of treatment

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United Nations — Nearly 40 million people were living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS last year, over 9 million weren’t getting any treatment, and the result was that every minute someone died of AIDS-related causes, the U.N. said in a new report launched Monday.…

Jul232024 by DmediaNo Comments

LogOn: Device may help disabled vocal cords speak again

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Some people who have lost the ability to speak can still move their vocal cords. California researchers are working to transform those muscle movements into audible speech. Genia Dulot reports from Los Angeles in this week’s edition of LogOn. ...

Jul222024 by TechmanNo Comments

CrowdStrike: More machines fixed as customers, regulators await details on what caused meltdown

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AUSTIN, Tex. — Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says a "significant number" of the millions of computers that crashed on Friday, causing global disruptions, are back in operation as its customers and regulators await a more detailed explanation of what went wrong. A defective software update sent by…

Jul222024 by TechmanNo Comments

India ed-tech firm Byju’s founder faces reckoning as startup implodes

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NEW DELHI — Byju Raveendran, an Indian mathematics whiz who soared from teacher to startup billionaire before his education-technology company imploded this year, now faces his biggest test. The future of Raveendran's eponymous Byju's online coaching firm rests with India's courts after the country's biggest startup,…

Jul212024 by TechmanNo Comments

What to know about Kids Online Safety Act and its chances of passing

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Jul212024 by DmediaNo Comments

India’s battery storage industry grows

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BENGALURU, India — At a Coca-Cola factory on the outskirts of Chennai in southern India, a giant battery powers machinery day and night, replacing a diesel-spewing generator. It's one of just a handful of sites in India powered by electricity stored in batteries, a key component…

Jul202024 by DmediaNo Comments

How to handle deli meats as CDC investigates listeria outbreak in the US

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new york — As U.S. health officials investigate a fatal outbreak of listeria food poisoning, they're advising people who are pregnant, elderly or have compromised immune systems to avoid eating sliced deli meat unless it's recooked at home to be steaming hot. The U.S. Centers for…

Jul202024 by TechmanNo Comments

Airlines resume services after global IT crash wreaks havoc

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Paris — Airlines were gradually coming back online Saturday after global carriers, banks and financial institutions were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus program. Passenger crowds had swelled at airports Friday to…

Jul192024 by DmediaNo Comments

Back to the Moon – Part 2

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After the Apollo program ended, the US took a long hiatus from lunar exploration. What happened during this time, and what has NASA been doing? This documentary by the Voice of America's Russian service focuses on the details of the NASA's Artemis program and plans…