California landlords and business owners won’t be able to hide behind LLCs if...
A California lawmaker wants to require business owners and landlords to disclose their identities under legislation aimed at cracking down on opaque ownership structures that have enabled some...
View Article4 years later it’s official: WHO says COVID spreads ‘through the air’
The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19...
View Article‘Complete and absolute despair’ for Texas farmers as shared water supply with...
Texas farm groups warn of a disastrous season ahead for citrus and sugar as Mexican and U.S. officials try to resolve a dispute over a decades-old water treaty that supplies U.S. farmers with critical...
View ArticleZepbound shortage update: FDA issues ‘limited availability’ warning. When...
In response to a surge in demand, Zepbound, the weight loss drug manufactured by Eli Lilly, is facing a shortage of certain doses in the United States, as highlighted in a recent warning issued by the...
View ArticleMexico, strong-armed by the U.S., will stop incentivizing Chinese EV production
Mexico’s federal government, under pressure from the U.S., is keeping Chinese automakers at arm’s length by refusing to offer such incentives as low-cost public land or tax cuts for investment in EV...
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Can this Arabic font help readers with dyslexia?
Maqroo, an Arabic word for “readable,” is also the name of the first-of-its-kind Arabic font for readers with dyslexia. “Arabic is a complicated writing system,” says Abdo Mohamed, founder of the type...
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Why AT&T turned its new ad into a reunion for ‘The Office’
Former star of The Office Rainn Wilson is starting a new small business, and he invited some old friends from the hit show to join in. “Dream With Rainn” is a luxury pillow with an embedded speaker...
View ArticleThe music catalogs of Shakira, Neil Young, and others just sold to a...
Nashville-based independent music company Concord has agreed to buy Britain’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.4 billion, the companies said on Thursday, to gain rights to the catalogues of artists...
View ArticleStarbucks’ latest sustainability push: Cold drink cups will have 20% less...
Booming sales of cold drinks at Starbucks have created a problem: growing amounts of plastic waste from the single-use cups that Frappuccinos, Refreshers, cold brews and other iced drinks are served...
View ArticleCelebrating the best in email marketing
Inboxes can be crowded, chaotic spaces, full of voices competing to get your attention. The best email marketing cuts through the noise to reach consumers in ways that feel personal. To celebrate the...
View ArticleGenerative AI’s refusal to produce ‘controversial’ content can create echo...
Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of color instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe Firefly’s image...
View ArticleMore trouble for Tesla: Layoffs, severance snafu, and a painful stock downgrade
In an email obtained by CNBC Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed staffers that the severance packages sent to some of the 14,000 workers laid off this week were “incorrectly low.” Musk apologized...
View ArticleThis summer, travelers are flocking to this cluster of castles in Northern...
Whether you’re hoping to explore ancient cities or lounge on the beach, summertime travel is about to be top-of-mind for just about everyone. And if you haven’t heard of Yvelines, it’s about to be on...
View ArticleTikTok’s sell-or-ban bill gains steam in Congress ahead of upcoming vote
An effort to force TikTok‘s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in the U.S. was gaining steam in Congress on Thursday, with the House of Representatives setting a vote...
View ArticleTrader Joe’s recall: Salmonella outbreak linked to organic basil has sickened...
Organic basil sold at Trader Joe’s is being recalled due to fears that it may be the origin of Salmonella infections that have so far sickened 12 people in seven states, according to an ongoing...
View ArticleCould the Apple Watch morph into a personal AI device?
There are some interesting connections between Apple and Humane, the company behind the new Ai Pin. The Ai Pin is actually the brainchild of a couple of ex-Apple execs, Imran Chaudhri and Bethany...
View ArticleRussian cyberattacks of Texas water utilities caused one system to overflow
A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of foreign...
View ArticleTesla is recalling its Cybertruck vehicles due to dangerously defective...
It’s been a bad week for Tesla. First, the EV maker announced mass layoffs. Then, despite this, just a few days later, Tesla asked shareholders to approve Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package—a figure...
View ArticlePublic lands leases for conservation efforts will be on par with those for...
The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that’s meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries...
View ArticleConfidential Brazilian court orders against ‘digital militias’ on X released...
A U.S. congressional committee released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X, offering a glimpse into decisions that have spurred complaints of...
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