Desperate

Firefighters and recruits for the Jackson, Miss., Fire Department carry cases of bottled water to residents vehicles, Aug. 18, 2022, as part of the city’s response to longstanding water system problems. Photo: Rogelio V. Solis (AP)Jackson, Mississippi is facing down a multifaceted water crisis days after severe flooding from the Pearl River this past weekend rendered much of the city without running or drinkable water. The overflowing river left more than 180,000 residents without running or drinkable water coming out of…

The subpoena asks for anything former Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has on the topics dating back to January of 2019. Composite picture shows former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, left, pictured on June 7, 2019, and Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, pictured on March 9, 2020.…

The US network that matches donated kidneys, livers and hearts with desperate patients has serious issues and "needs to be vastly restructured," according to a government review seen by The Washington Post. It reportedly relies on out-of-date technology, has crashed for hours at a time and has never been audited by federal for security or other flaws by federal officials.   The current system has been administered by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) for 36 years. That non-profit is overseen by the Health…

Photo: FellowNeko (Shutterstock)If big business mergers were a game of Pac-Man, where every pellet was a small company and each power pellet was a juicy merger, then tech companies would be playing a perfect game. In this admittedly overstretched metaphor, some U.S. regulators are desperately trying to pull the arcade cabinet’s chord, but it’s not going as well as some hoped.We have billion dollar tech mergers being announced practically every week. On Thursday, Amazon announced it was signing a $3.9 billion merger deal…

More than 600 leaders of nonprofits, universities, and tech giants – as well as 50 US governors – have signed a letter in support of updating the US K-12 curriculum to include opportunities to learn computer science. Industry giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Nike, UPS, AT&T, Walgreens, Zillow and more have all come together to partner with tech education non-profit Code, which holds the mission of expanding access to computer science education, especially to underrepresented populations such…

Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)A new investigative report out Tuesday finds that long covid patients are traveling overseas to try out costly and untested treatments for their symptoms, including having their blood filtered. But at least some experts are worried about the trend, cautioning that these treatments have no strong evidence supporting their claimed benefits.The report is a joint collaboration between The BMJ and ITV News. The authors visited or interviewed patients who went to clinics in Cyprus, Germany, and…

A severe semiconductor shortage has resulted in record wire fraud cases last year reported by desperate buyers, a company that tracks counterfeit and fraud in the chip industry said on Tuesday. ERAI Inc said in 2021 there were 101 wire fraud cases reported to the U.S.-based firm, up from 70 in 2020 and 17 five years ago. Companies looking for chips they could not find through authorized and vetted distributors were trying to buy them from shadier brokers and transferring funds for goods that never got delivered, ERAI…

A severe semiconductor shortage has resulted in record wire fraud cases last year reported by desperate buyers, a company that tracks counterfeit and fraud in the chip industry said on Tuesday. ERAI said in 2021, there were 101 wire fraud cases reported to the US-based firm, up from 70 in 2020 and 17 five years ago.Companies looking for chips they could not find through authorised and vetted distributors were trying to buy them from shadier brokers and transferring funds for goods that never got delivered, ERAI president…

via Universal Not every movie needs a splashy marketing campaign or media blitz in order to entice audiences to the theater, when a simple tagline or premise is often more than enough to do the trick. In the case of Beast, though, fans are genuinely disappointed in themselves for how much they want to see Idris Elba fight a lion. Essentially a B-tier action thriller with A-list talent, the actor stars as a recent widower who jets off to South Africa with his children to visit a game reserve staffed by Sharlto…

The ramifications of the historic megadrought happening in the U.S. right now are getting increasingly serious. Hydropower is faltering, farmland is too parched to produce, and millions of people are currently under water restrictions. It’s a drought so big that it has eclipsed 1,200 years of climate history. Human-caused climate change is at least partially responsible.Fields Lay FallowCalifornia is the U.S.’s produce aisle. The state grows more than a third of the country’s domestically harvested vegetables and two-…