In advance of a United Nations meeting this week where pollution is on the agenda, a U.N. human rights team has called out a PFAS manufacturing plant in North Carolina as a poster child for irresponsible behavior. Nine independent U.N. human rights advisors put blame for widespread contamination in the area from a Chemours plant near Fayetteville, a Dupont spinoff, and said “even as DuPont and Chemours had information about the toxic impacts of PFAS on human health and drinking water, the companies continued to produce and discharge PFAS.” The experts also rebuked state and federal regulators, alleging lax enforcement and arguing that regulatory bodies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, had been “captured” by the plant’s current and past owners, a term implying the regulators were inappropriately doing the companies’ bidding. At issue are the PFAS chemicals made at the Fayetteville plant, or per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They are known as “forever chemicals” because they last a very long time in the environment. Various PFAS are used to make certain kinds of plastics, and are found in a wide array of consumer products, such as shampoo, dental floss, nail polish, eye makeup, fast food containers and stain-resistant coatings on fabrics. Created in the 1940s, PFAS are now found in the blood of humans and animals all over the world.

Entrepreneur whose botched 'Willy Wonka' event went viral peddles AI-written books about vaccine conspiracies and human trafficking

Trump behaved inappropriately with Grisham, too, she wrote — once calling her from Air Force One to assure her that his penis was not small or toadstool-shaped, as the porn star Stormy Daniels had alleged in an interview.

The VGHF is saving video game history from the basement. Founded by Cifaldi in 2017, the Video Game History Foundation was always going to build a digital library. “Most of us who study and write video game history grew up on the internet,” Cifaldi said. “And I thought that a proper resource for studying video game history should be online.” When people think of video game preservation, they typically think of saving cartridges and disks. With a name like the Video Game History Foundation and a mission statement of, “preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games,” one could be forgiven for assuming its goal is to save actual games before cartridges go bad or a publisher shuts down a digital storefront. But to the VGHF, preserving physical media doesn’t always mean rescuing a Super Mario Bros. cartridge from 1985. In fact, it’s not one of the foundation’s main concerns. “To my mind, at least for old stuff, it is a solved problem,” Cifaldi said... “Everything’s extremely corporate now and proprietary, so it’s really hard to steal things, but you should do it anyway.”

It finally happened! The day we all knew would come, thanks to nearly ten years of hard work and dedication by some of the absolute best people in the business. I’m talking about Apple finally giving up their program to build an electric (and possibly automated) car, which has been in progress since before 2015 […]

“This is us taking a stand for [Benedict] as well as our community."

Screenwriter Lance Hill alleges that Amazon Studios used artificial intelligence to simulate actors' voices in an attempt to finish the remake of the 1989 movie by Nov. 10, despite the SAG-AFTRA strike.

The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.

Wendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner said that the it will start testing dynamic pricing, also known as surge pricing, as early as next year. “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling,” he said.

The grown-up Disney superfan has become a much-mocked phenomenon online. But creating these consumers was always part of the corporation’s plan.

Jacob Chansley, more commonly known as the QAnon Shaman, was a guest of Glendale Republican Anthony Kern at the Arizona Capitol this week.

Despite a decade of dreaming, Elon Musk has only built one tiny Hyperloop tunnel in Las Vegas — and the people who built it say it's filled with dangerous chemical sludge. As Bloomberg reports, the Boring Company's scarce output — which thus far amounts only to driving Teslas around a few miles of neon-lit tunnel underneath Sin City as they ferry convention attendees at no more than 40 miles per hour — has also come with a massive buildup of waste, the consistency of a milkshake, that's said to burn the skin of anyone who comes in contact with it.

Described as a “full Wonka Experience” tearful kids received only two jelly babies and a quarter of a can of Barrs limeade Furious parents shelled out £35 for the world of pure imagination.

Change Healthcare's systems are down for a fourth straight day after parent company UnitedHealth Group disclosed that a suspected cybersecurity threat actor gained access to part of its information technology network on Wednesday. UnitedHealth, the biggest health-care company in the U.S. by market cap, owns the health-care provider Optum, which merged with Change Healthcare in 2022. Optum services more than 100 million patients in the U.S., according to its website, and Change Healthcare offers solutions for payment and revenue cycle management.

French President Emmanuel Macron says sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds into a third year.

Duke University is closing its century-old herbarium—a legendary plant collection and training ground—to the outcry of many. The original Gaga specimens lie to this day inside the collections of Duke University’s herbarium—the second largest collection of its kind owned by a private university, after Harvard. But where they’ll be in five years is uncertain. This month, Duke University announced its plan to shut down its century-old herbarium. Its collection of 825,000 specimens will be split and rehomed over the next two to three years. “Duke Herbarium will be the largest and oldest herbarium in the history of the U.S. to be abandoned by its host institution,” herbarium director Kathleen Pryer wrote in an email to Duke’s biology department last Wednesday night. Its closure “will lead to broken legacies and a colossal breakdown,” she continued, pleading with her colleagues to join her fight against the decision. The herbarium has been under pressure “since before Covid,” Pryer told Atmos. It takes up a lot of space—plus, while the five faculty members associated with the facility have brought in over $30 million in grants from the National Science Foundation over the last 20 years, according to Pryer, that doesn’t necessarily bring in much overhead.

The Pentagon awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX a one-year contract for Starshield in September.

Missouri is one of four states that does not let couples finalize a divorce if the wife is pregnant.

Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.

Trying to project the death toll from Israel’s military campaign over the next six months.