After living in big cities like San Francisco and New York, when I returned to the Midwest and set foot in Wally World, I heard angels sing. Rows and rows of fluorescent lights highlighted any and every product you'd ever need want, from hearing aids to video ... More »
I have been in Marseille for three weeks, working undocumented in the social care sector. There’s a heatwave and it is hard to breathe. I chose caring for older people because it is badly paid across the EU. Nevertheless, women from poorer eastern European cou... More »
The Starling Bank recently launched a campaign in which it talks about the dangers of voice cloning. Scammers only need a few seconds of your voice, which they can take from your social media posts, to create an identical clone. Starling Bank recommends havi... More »
Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.With all due respect to the Buckeye State, the co-hosts of The New Abnormal think its elected officials could do with a little more backbone.Gov. Mike DeWine and Ro... More »
The Taiwanese government has said components in thousands of pagers used by the armed group Hezbollah that exploded in Lebanon earlier this week were not made on the island. More »
Joseph Peko’s hair is so long coming out of his Oaks Christian helmet that sometimes offensive linemen have tried to pull on it hoping to slow his pass rush. He said he hasn’t cut his hair in five years, which helps explain why it covers the back of his No. 58... More »
BEIRUT -- Chris Knayzeh was in a town overlooking Lebanon's capital when he heard the rumbling aftershock of the 2020 Beirut port blast. Hundreds of tons of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates had exploded, killing and injuring thousands of people.Already str... More »
LinkedIn has just updated its privacy policy to reveal that it’s using user data to train its AI models. However, it looks like this has been going on for much longer than it let on. What’s worse, all users are opted in for data collection by default. If you... More »
Labour's plans to axe the U.K.'s non-dom tax regime could spark an ultra wealthy exodus, advisors and research bodies have warned. Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Greece, Malta, Dubai and the Caribbean have emerged as top relocation destinations as they "smell the... More »
While traffic and industry have been the focus of air pollution controls for the past two decades, the old issue of pollution from home heating has crept up again.Wood- and coal-burning homes in the UK now produce more particle air pollution than the vehicles ... More »
Jobcentres are the “least well-used” and “least well-loved” of all public services, a failure at the heart of the economy that helps account for the biggest contraction in the workforce since the 1980s. So said the employment minister, Alison McGovern, as she ... More »
When Europe’s heaviest land mammals were introduced into a woodland on the edge of Canterbury, it was hoped they would flourish and make space for other wildlife.But the European bison have been so successful in West Blean and Thornden Woods that more space mu... More »