Inside Big Tech’s Underground Race to Buy AI Training Data
April 5 By Katie Paul and Anna Tong NEW YORK (Reuters) – At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly…
SpaceX Applies for Indonesia Internet Service Provider Permit, Government Says
April 4 By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has applied to Indonesia’s government for an internet service provider permit for its Starlink satellite unit, the communications ministry said on Thursday. The application is a sign of Starlink’s expansion in Southeast Asia after…
Bird Flu Hits Texas Dairy Cows, Hens, Human as Ducks Migrate
April 3 By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Migratory waterfowl are to blame for widening avian-flu outbreaks in Texas cows and poultry, and wild birds carrying the virus should be heading north soon, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said. The U.S. government since last week has…
Wide Swath of US Will Get Buggy as Two Cicada Broods Intrude
April 2 By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the United States. Two sizable adjacent broods of…
Trapped Vessels Start to Move Out of Baltimore Following Bridge Disaster
April 1 By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The Port of Baltimore opened a temporary channel on Monday, freeing some tugs and barges that had been trapped by last week’s bridge collapse, but officials said wider restoration of commercial shipping remained frustrated by unyielding conditions. Baltimore’s shipping…
After Bridge Collapse, Maryland Governor Urges Congress to Pass Funding for Rebuild
March 31 By Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With efforts underway to clean up thousands of tons of steel debris from the collapsed bridge in Baltimore’s harbor, Maryland Governor Wes Moore on Sunday urged Republicans to work with Democrats to approve the federal funding needed for…
No Winner for Powerball Lottery, Jackpot Jumps to $975 Million
March 30 By Maria Caspani and Jyoti Narayan (Reuters) -A $935 million jackpot in the Powerball lottery draw, one of the largest in its history, found no winners on Saturday night, boosting the prize for next week’s draw. No one held the winning numbers 12,…
UAW Membership Fell 3.3% in 2023 to 370,000 Workers
March 29 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Membership in the United Auto Workers union fell 3.3% in 2023 to 370,000, its lowest level since 2009, according to a report filed on Friday with the U.S. Labor Department. The UAW is “clear-eyed that our union and…
US Provides Maryland $60 Million to Start Rebuild of Collapsed Baltimore Bridge
March 28 By David Shepardson and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – The U.S. government awarded the state of Maryland an initial $60 million in emergency funds on Thursday to clear debris and begin rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, an extraordinarily fast disbursement…
Disney, Florida Settle Bitter Legal Feud Over Disney World District
March 27 By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -Walt Disney and appointees of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reached a settlement on Wednesday to end a high-profile lawsuit in state court over control of the special district that includes the Walt Disney World theme parks….
Exclusive – US Lawmaker Seeks Answers on FDA Inspection of Musk’s Neuralink
March 26 By Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. lawmaker involved in health policy has asked the Food and Drug Administration why it did not inspect Elon Musk’s Neuralink before allowing the brain implant company to test its device in humans. Reuters reported last…
US Supreme Court Abortion Pill Fight Brings Claims of Distorted Science
March 25 By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The abortion opponents who are seeking to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone point to three studies by Gynuity Health Projects, a New York-based women’s health research group, to back up…