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Shock Hazard Prompts Recall of Nearly 1M Power Adapters Sold With Baby Sound Machines
Due to a shock hazard, a California company is recalling nearly 1 million power adapters sold with sound machines marketed to help infants and young children sleep. The plastic surrounding the AC ...
Survey: AI Set to Save Professionals Up to 12 Hours a Week by 2029
Results from a new survey predicts AI will free up to 12 hours per week within the next five years, with four hours per week saved in the next year alone. This, according to global content and ...
June Marks 13 Months in a Row Heat Record
Earth's more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June, according to the European climate service Copernicus. There's hope that the planet will soon see an ...
Analysis Shows $7.7B in Losses From Extreme Heat Events in California
The cumulative cost of the seven heat events in California in the past decade amounted to $7.7 billion in losses, a new report shows. The analysis from California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo ...
NICB, NHTSA Join Forces to Deliver Auto Theft Prevention Message
Last year, more than one million vehicles were reported stolen, accounting for an increase of about 1 percent nationwide. Vehicle thefts increased from 1,008,756 in 2022 to 1,020,729 in 2023, with ...
California Inspectors Didn’t Visit All Farmworker Housing to Review Safety as Required
When Antonio Bravo stepped into the Salinas, California, hotel in May 2020, he first noticed a foul smell. Then he saw the bare metal cot with no mattress that his employer had given him to sleep on ...
Untreated Water Tied to U.S. Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak That Sickened 450
Untreated water used by a Florida cucumber grower is one likely source of salmonella food poisoning that sickened nearly 450 people across the U.S. this spring, federal health officials said Tuesday. ...
U.S. High Court Rejects Challenge to Workplace Safety Agency
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a challenge by an Ohio company to the power of the federal workplace safety regulator as the justices avoided another legal effort to pare back the ...