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Questions about the safety of Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ system are growing
DETROIT — Three times in the past four months, William Stein, a technology analyst at Truist Securities, has taken Elon Musk up on his invitation to try the latest versions of Tesla’s vaunted “Full Self-Driving” system. A Tesla equipped with the technology, the company says, can travel from point to point with little human intervention. Yet each time Stein drove one of the cars, he…
Stock market today: Wall Street rises as market focus turns from Nvidia to the US economy
A late-afternoon slide by some Big Tech companies cut into Wall Street’s gains Thursday, leading to a mixed finish for U.S. stock indexes. The S&P 500 ended flat after giving up an earlier gain of nearly 1%. The benchmark index is about 1.3% away from its record set in July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed a 0.6% gain, enough for its third all-time high…
Maryland awards contract for Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild after deadly collapse
BALTIMORE — Maryland transportation leaders on Thursday approved a contract for rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge several months after the 1.6-mile (2.6-kilometer) steel span collapsed under the impact of a massive container ship that lost power and crashed into one of its supporting columns. In the immediate aftermath of the deadly March 26 collapse, officials quickly promised to rebuild the bridge — a longstanding…
A Hong Kong court convicts 2 journalists in a landmark sedition case
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted two former editors of a shuttered news outlet in a sedition case widely seen as a barometer for the future of media freedoms in a city once hailed as a bastion of free press in Asia. The trial of Stand News former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam was Hong Kong’s first…
Stock market today: Wall Street climbs as S&P 500 closes out fourth straight winning month
Stocks on Wall Street finished broadly higher Friday as the market closed out its fourth straight winning month with solid gains. A late-afternoon rally helped stocks bounce back from a midafternoon slide. The S&P 500 rose 1%, with about 76% of the stocks in the index notching gains. The benchmark S&P 500 closed August with a 2.3% gain for the month. It’s now up 18.4%…
Consumers should immediately stop using this magnetic game due to ingestion risks, agency warns
The Consumer Product and Safety Commission says people should immediately throw out a magnetic game because it poses serious ingestion for children ByThe Associated Press August 29, 2024, 11:25 AM NEW YORK — The Consumer Product and Safety Commission is warning people to immediately dispose of a magnetic game because it poses serious ingestion risks for children. The CPSC posted a warning Thursday that “Magnetic…
Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say
Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday that they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools ByMATT O’BRIEN AP technology writer Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. The…
Canadian rail union files lawsuits challenging back-to-work orders
The union that represents workers at both of Canada’s largest freight railroads has filed the lawsuits it had promised challenging the orders that forced employees back to work and got the trains moving again, the union announced Friday. The lawsuits were filed Thursday afternoon, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference said. But they won’t stop the trains because the government has ordered the union to stay…
Navajo Nation adopts changes to tribal law regulating the transportation of uranium across its land
The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. The move is in response to the revival of a uranium mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon that has drawn much criticism from environmentalists and Native American tribes in the region. Navajo President Buu…
Judge allows smoking to continue in Atlantic City casinos, dealing blow to workers
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A judge on Friday allowed smoking to continue in Atlantic City’s casinos, giving some measure of relief to the city’s struggling casino industry while rebuffing workers who have long sought to be able to breathe clean air on the casino floor. The ruling by Superior Court Judge Patrick Bartels represented a major victory for the city’s nine casinos, most of which…