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Growing Evidence of Vitamin E Acetate Link to Vaping Ills
Most patients stricken in a wave of vaping-related injuries had vitamin E acetate in their lungs, U.S. health officials found, reinforcing a suspected link between the compound and an outbreak that ...
AP Feature: 2019 Problems With PG&E Not the First
The state senators grilling the CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. were upset—like millions of other Californians, some spent days in the dark when the nation's largest utility shut off power ...
NIST Study Finds Race Bias In AI Face Scanning Tech
Many facial recognition systems misidentify people of color more often than white people, according to a U.S. government study released on Thursday that is likely to increase skepticism of technology ...
Court Orders Cox Communications to Pay $1B in Piracy Infringement Case
A U.S. District Court jury on Thursday found telecom company Cox Communications Inc liable to pay $1 billion to music labels and publishers over piracy infringement on more than 10,000 works. Over 50 ...
The Latest Launches From The Hartford and Zurich
The Hartford said it has expanded its offerings designed to protect customers from cyber attack risks. Zurich and InsurTech managing general underwriter Vindati have launched a new stand-alone Motor ...
It Burns: EU Court Rules Airlines Can Be Held Liable for Spilled Coffee
It might be harder to get hot coffee at 30,000 feet after the European Union's top court said that airlines can be held responsible for injuries caused by spilled drinks, even if it isn't clear how ...
Personal Info of 15M Canadians at Risk After LifeLabs Hacking
Canadian laboratory testing company LifeLabs disclosed on Tuesday that it had suffered a cyber attack that may have compromised the personal information of some 15 million customers, primarily in the ...
Will Emotion AI Make Human P/C Claims Adjusters Obsolete?
Renowned machine learning researcher and New York Times bestselling author Kai-fu Lee has described the era we are living in as "the age of implementation," a time period during which artificial ...