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Typhoon Update: Northeast Philippines Hit on Sunday
Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu weakened after blowing ashore with fierce winds in the northeastern Philippines on Sunday, leaving at least one person dead and six others missing, while displacing 16,000 ...
Google Book Scanning Not Infringement, Court Rules
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the ...
Ethics and Driverless Cars: Stanford Professor Working Through the Issues
It's nothing more than a dune buggy on a cordoned-off street but it's headed for trouble. A jumble of sawhorses and traffic' cones simulates a road crew working over a manhole and the driverless car ...
Few Small Businesses OK With Weed at Work
Small businesses aren't worried that employees might come to work a little stoned, but inhaling on the job is definitely frowned upon by most small business owners, a survey by a workers compensation ...
Govt. Cracking Down on Illegal Drone Operators; Testing Tech to ID Them
The Federal Aviation Administration has signed an agreement to test technology that could locate the operators of small drones that are flying illegally near airports, as the government tries to ...
Germany Orders Volkswagen to Recall 2.4M Rigged Diesel Cars
The German government forced Volkswagen AG to recall about 2.4 million diesel cars after throwing out the carmaker's proposal for voluntary repairs, setting off a chain reaction by authorities across ...
Air Accidents Are at a Record Low
As the spotlight falls on Dutch crash investigators and their high profile probe into the downing of a Malaysian airliner, air accident detectives worldwide are waging a much more discreet daily ...
WCRI Studies Examine Medical Costs Drivers; Reform Impacts for 17 States
The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) has published a new set of studies looking into factors driving trends of medical payments in state workers compensation systems. Specifically, the ...