Mississippi

Pa’ashi in April 2023. Credit: Vivian Underhill The San Joaquin Valley of California, despite supplying a significant percentage of the country's food, is nevertheless a dry, arid place. Fresno, at the heart of the valley, receives just over 10 inches of rain a year on average, according to the National Weather Service, and sometimes as little as 3. …

Trigger warning: explicit description of child abuseHorror unfolded on a freezing morning in Mississippi, USA, when people noticed that a neglectful mother had brought her almost naked toddler to go grocery shopping, sparking outrage and the termination of the employee who sounded the alarm.26-year-old Kambria Gabrielle Darby was arrested after she was filmed at her local Walmart with her shivering toddler dressed only in diapers during below-freezing temperatures.Darby was subsequently charged with child neglect after…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Thursday it plans to invest $10 billion to build two data centre complexes in Mississippi, its latest capacity expansion amid growing demand for cloud services as more firms adopt new artificial intelligence technologies.Businesses are doubling down on AI development and the majority of that traffic is expected to be managed on the cloud infrastructure from AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft's Azure - the top three vendors globally.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

Amazon.com's AWS said on Thursday it plans to invest $10 billion to build two data center complexes in Mississippi, its latest capacity expansion amid growing demand for cloud services as more firms adopt new artificial intelligence technologies.Businesses are doubling down on AI development and majority of that traffic is expected to be managed on the cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft's Azure - the top three vendors globally.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

Daimler Trucks, Accelera by Cummins, and truck maker PACCAR will build a huge battery cell factory for electric trucks in Mississippi. The companies have selected Marshall County, Mississippi, southeast of Memphis, for the joint venture’s factory, which will localize battery cell production for commercial electric trucks. It’s expected to create more than 2,000 US manufacturing jobs. The 21-gigawatt hour (GWh) factory is scheduled to begin producing battery cells in 2027. The joint venture…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Shifting water levels have driven a significant decline in navigation conditions in recent decades along the Mississippi River, a primary engine of commerce in the United States, research from the federal government and Princeton University shows. The researchers examined changing water levels…

Pornhub is blocking access from users in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which have recently passed laws that require age verification to access adult websites. Similar legislation went into effect in Louisiana at the start of the year. To comply, Pornhub required visitors to verify their age with the LA Wallet app, a digital wallet for Louisiana state driver licenses. “Since then, our traffic in Louisiana dropped approximately 80 percent,” Pornhub wrote in a statement. “Those people did not stop looking for porn.…

Pornhub has officially pulled out of two more states, namely Mississippi and Virginia. As much as the latter state is “for lovers,” PornHub says it’s protesting the states’ recently-enacted age verification laws that create massive business and privacy issues for the porno site.What is One Change Mark Zuckerberg Should Make to His Social Platforms? | Gizmodo InterviewIn a statement posted to Twitter late last week, Pornhub said it is “sorry to let our loyal visitors in these states down but we have opted to comply with…

Multiple tornadoes formed and swept through Mississippi on Sunday night, into Monday morning. The twisters left behind a trail of extensive property damage, and injuries for affected residents, the Associated Press reported.Meteorologists from the National Weather Service believe that a strong tornado, possibly one with wind speeds over 100 miles per hour, may have formed in Eastern Mississippi, local news 16ABC reported.Officials confirmed that multiple tornadoes formed around that timein both Rankin County and Jasper…

Some of the biggest internet service providers in the U.S. have come crawling on hands and knees to the Federal Communications Commission, signing a joint petition asking the agency to cut them some slack with new requirements that they report all their fees to consumers.A Transformer Is Headed to the MoonAll commercial food in the U.S. is expected to contain a breakdown of ingredients and basic dietary facts. The FCC took a page from the Food and Drug Administration’s playbook when it issued new rules requiring internet…