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A Somali driver caught barreling an “80-ton truck” the wrong way down a Missouri highway failed an English proficiency test — and wasn’t able to read road signs, authorities said. The trucker was ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Denise Koh, a 34-year-old graphic designer in Portland, was home alone on a Tuesday night when a sharp, radiating ...

After constant pushback from its users, popular chat platform Discord is pulling back on plans to introduce a "global age assurance" process, admitting in a statement that the company "failed at our ...

“Zuffa is officially a failed science project,” he said. “I had no idea there was a show on Sunday.” He went further, criticizing the level of talent and the overall presentation. “Zuffa is filled ...

A Michigan pension fund wanted to grow the second-largest coffee farm in Hawaii. What happened there demonstrates the perils of investing public workers’ savings in private markets. The $16 billion ...

Google has begun selling access to Project Genie, an interactive world creation tool that lets you generate playable environments from a prompt — including those featuring Nintendo characters. The ...

Oregon lawmakers have spent more than a year trying and failing to secure more dollars to maintain the state’s roads and bridges. And heading into the short session in February, they appear to be back ...

Levi Strauss & Co. has introduced the Levi’s Wear Longer Project, a new initiative designed to equip young people with practical clothing repair and customization skills. Developed in partnership with ...

That counterintuitive finding came from tech startup Scale AI and the nonprofit Center for AI Safety. They created the Remote Labor Index (RLI) to measure how well current apps managed to automate ...

The ruling means that construction can continue on Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion project off the coast of Rhode Island, at least for now. By Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow Reporting from ...

OSLO, Norway—Bridge Technologies has unveiled a multiservice AV sync comparison feature to the AV Sync function of its VB440 production probe, enabling seamless, glitch-free switching. The new feature ...