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California Legislation to Ban Deepfakes, Protect Workers and Regulate AI Approved
California lawmakers approved legislation last week aimed at regulating the artificial intelligence industry, combat deepfakes and protect workers from exploitation by the rapidly evolving ...
AAA: Driving Habits Stabilize Since Pandemic, But Older Cars Pose Safety Issues
The results of the 2023 American Driving Survey reveals that overall driving patterns have rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The percentage of ...
Maui Judge Agrees to Seek State Supreme Court Insight Into Ruling Limiting Insurers’ Subrogation Rights
The Hawaii Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in on an issue that threatens to thwart a $4 billion settlement in last year's devastating Maui wildfires. Judge Peter Cahill on Maui agreed Friday to ...
New Method Could Give Months’ Warning of Major Earthquakes
The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by a University of Alaska ...
Wild Weather Week in US Included a Heat Wave, Landslide, Flash Flood and Snow
It's been a wild week of weather in many parts of the United States, from heat waves to snowstorms to flash floods. Here's a look at some of the weather events: Midwest sizzles under heat wave ...
Study: Large Hail Expected to Be More Common in Warming Climate
Under current human-driven climate-warming trajectories, hailstorms will produce larger hailstones by mid-to-late century—the kind of ice orbs that can damage aircraft, shatter windshields, leave ...
U.S. Drivers Spent a Work-Week Sitting in Traffic Last Year: Research
New York City, where drivers lost 101 hours to traffic congestion last year, topped INRIX's 2023 Global Traffic Scorecard, the transportation data and analytics reported recently. The firm's report ...
Context Matters: Mailing Letter Sufficient Cancel Notice, Court Says
Simply mailing a cancellation notice to a policyholder, when viewed in the context of other indicators, was enough to comply with state law and void a homeowner's insurance policy just weeks before a ...