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For years, the U.S. Postal Service has faced competition from the likes of United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. To fight them off, it hired outside trucking companies at cut-rate prices, required them to meet aggressive schedules and then looked the other way when they ran afoul of highway safety rules, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.The result has been deadly. Postal contractors have been involved in at least 68 fatal crashes that killed 79…

Malaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes. Symptoms of malaria can range from mild to severe and include fever, chills, headache, muscle pain, and fatigue. In severe cases, it can cause anemia, low blood pressure, and organ failure.Study shows children sleeping under bed netting treated with two pesticides contract malaria at less than half the rate of those with single-treated nettingExpert says study is proof that such…

Billy Perrigo / TIME: Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama to label violent and toxic content, paying workers $2/hour, to improve ChatGPT — Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse — ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022's most impressive technological … Billy Perrigo / TIME: Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama to label violent and toxic content, paying workers $2/hour, to…

Things were looking up for Ethel Brooks in early 2020—she was 44 years old, had just moved back home to Los Angeles, and had gotten a job at an Amazon Fresh warehouse near downtown, making around $16 an hour. That March, however, as the pandemic set in and people flooded online to panic-buy whatever they could, Brooks’s circumstances took a dire turn.Brooks said she and her co-workers worked long hours hurriedly boxing grocery orders. “It’d be like ground beef, Suave soap, and a bag of diapers,” she said. “So many of us…

Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images)In a video released today, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has revealed that he has contracted covid-19 during his time at San Diego Comic-Con, which was planned as part of a larger West Coast trip that was supposed to include attending the premiere of House of the Dragon. Instead, the author has cancelled his remaining meetings and is isolating in a hotel room. Covid VideoDespite skipping parties, staying off the convention floor, and cancelling his in-person autograph session,…

On similar tracks, the common symptom of common cold - sore throat- can also determine of you have contracted the coronavirus or not.  In a recent media briefing World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke of a new sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid-19 that has now been detected in India. Omicron sub-variants BA.4, BA.5 may fuel into a new Covid infection surge, a top health official in India…