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How Does Daylight Saving Time Affect Sleep and Health? 10/28/2024 08:00pm • Thanks to daylight saving time, twice a year we get to reset our clocks. On the second Sunday of March, the majority of Americans "spring" their clocks an hour forward, losing one hour overnight. Daylight saving time ends on the first Sunday in November, when we set our clocks back, gaining an extra Road closures for Kamala Harris speech on the Ellipse in DC 10/28/2024 03:49pm • Sign up for WTOP���s Election Desk weekly newsletter��to stay up-to-date through Election Day 2024 with the latest developments in this historic presidential election cycle. Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris will hold her campaign's closing argument Tuesday on the Ell Apple launches the iPhone into the AI era with free software update 10/28/2024 12:23pm • Apple is releasing a free software update that will inject its first dose of artificial intelligence into its iPhone 16 lineup as the trendsetting company tries to catch up with technology's latest craze. The upgrade to the iOS 18 operating system on Monday arrives more than a month after four iPhon 7 Earnings Reports to Watch 10/27/2024 08:00pm • Third-quarter earnings season is in full swing, and investors have some high expectations with the S&P 500 up 21.7% year to date through Oct. 25 and 7.5% in the past three months alone. Earnings reports can be important market-moving catalysts. A good or bad earnings report often sets the tone f Head First: Taking On Childhood Concussions 10/27/2024 08:00pm • While we may have moved past the days of referring to a blow to the head as a "bell-ringer" or allowing a player to dive back into a game while still groggy, concussions are still a painful reality for many children. These traumatic brain injuries, which can be mild or serious and affect all ages, h They came to America looking for better lives ��� and better schools. The results were mixed 10/27/2024 04:30pm • AURORA, Colo. (AP) ��� Starting seventh grade at her first American school, facing classes taught entirely in English, Alisson Ramirez steeled herself for rejection and months of feeling lost. ���I was nervous that people would ask me things and I wouldn���t know how to answer,��� the Venezuelan tee They came to America looking for better lives ��� and better schools. The results were mixed 10/27/2024 04:26pm • AURORA, Colo. (AP) ��� Starting seventh grade at her first American school, facing classes taught entirely in English, Alisson Ramirez steeled herself for rejection and months of feeling lost. ���I was nervous that people would ask me things and I wouldn���t know how to answer,��� the Venezuelan tee Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 10/25/2024 11:19pm • Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company's headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel's war with Hamas. The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call late Thursday, several hours after a lunchtime event they orga An abrupt goodbye to a guerrilla goldfish aquarium beneath a leaky Brooklyn fire hydrant 10/25/2024 09:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A makeshift aquarium that popped up this summer in a puddle beneath a leaky fire hydrant has been paved over, to the dismay of neighbors who turned the area into a hangout spot and goldfish shrine. The city's Department of Environmental Protection has long said the dribbling hydran AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them 10/25/2024 06:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A child psychiatrist who altered a first-day-of-school photo he saw on Facebook to make a group of girls appear nude. A U.S. Army soldier accused of creating images depicting children he knew being sexually abused. A software engineer charged with generating hyper-realistic sexua An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges 10/25/2024 06:32pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend. For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his real life as he engaged in highly sexualized convers AI is being used to send some households impacted by Helene and Milton $1,000 cash relief payments 10/25/2024 04:58pm • Nearly 1,000 hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida will benefit this week from a new disaster aid program that employs a model not commonly used by philanthropy in the United States: Giving people rapid, direct cash payments. The nonprofit GiveDirectly plans to send payments of Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces a UK competition investigation 10/24/2024 12:28pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s competition watchdog said Thursday it's opening a formal investigation into Google���s partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. The Competition and Markets Authority said it has ���sufficient information��� to launch an initial probe after it sought in One Tech Tip: How to prepare your online accounts for when you die 10/24/2024 10:51am • LONDON (AP) ��� Most people have accumulated a pile of data ��� selfies, emails, videos and more ��� on their social media and digital accounts over their lifetimes. What happens to it when we die? It's wise to draft a will spelling out who inherits your physical assets after you're gone, but don't Hong Kong bars services like WhatsApp and Google Drive from government computers 10/23/2024 07:49am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� The Hong Kong government is barring most civil servants from using popular apps like WhatsApp, WeChat and Google Drive on their work computers due to potential security risks. The latest IT security guidelines from the Digitial Policy Office have many civil servants complaining a