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Brazilian police launch mega-operation in Rio de Janeiro favelas to fight organized crime 07/15/2024 10:58pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazilian authorities launched a mega-operation in Rio de Janeiro that sent a force of nearly 2,000 military and civil officers into 10 low income neighborhoods Monday seeking to regain control of areas dominated by organized crime. The officers deployed in the city���s weste Chase Announces Huge Bonus for New Business Card Holders -- But Only for a Limited Time 07/15/2024 08:00pm • If you've been contemplating a new business credit card, it might be the right time to jump on a new offer from Chase. Beginning July 11, new Ink Business Preferred�� Credit Card holders can earn an unprecedented 120,000 point bonus, which can be valued at $1,500 when redeemed for travel through the T-shirts with image of Trump raising his fist after assassination attempt are for sale in China 07/15/2024 10:25am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Images of the moment have already been splashed across the world���s front pages and papered many corners of the internet ��� former President Donald Trump, ear bleeding, with his right hand clenched in a fist above the Secret Service agents surrounding him after he was shot. And no Minutes after Trump shooting, misinformation started flying. Here are the facts 07/14/2024 08:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Within minutes of the gunfire, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump spawned a vast sea of claims ��� some outlandish, others contradictory ��� reflecting the frightening uncertainties of the moment as well as America's fevered, polarized political climate. Are We in an AI Bubble? 07/14/2024 08:00pm • Investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence stocks has propelled markets to new all-time highs in 2024. Unfortunately, the spectacular surge in a handful of leading AI technology stocks has also raised concerns among skeptics that the market could be overheating. AI technology could be one of th One Tech Tip: Protecting yourself against SIM swapping 07/14/2024 12:07am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� SIM-swapping is a growing form of identity theft that goes beyond hacking into an email or social media account. In this case, the thieves take over your phone number. Any calls or texts go to them, not to you. Any protections consumers enabled to secure access to their financial What's worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too 07/14/2024 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� One Monday morning in May, I woke up and grabbed my cell phone to read the news and scroll through memes. But it was out of cell service. I couldn't make calls or texts. That, though, turned out to be the least of my problems. Using my home Wi-Fi connection, I checked my email SpaceX rocket accident leaves company's Starlink satellites in wrong orbit 07/12/2024 05:58pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company���s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Thursday night, carrying 2 US senators call out Big Tech's new approach to poaching talent, products from smaller AI startups 07/12/2024 03:09pm • In the race to stay ahead in artificial intelligence, the biggest technology companies are swallowing up the talent and products of innovative AI startups without formally acquiring them. Now three members of the U.S. Senate are calling for an investigation. San Francisco-based Adept announced a de Trucker describes finding 'miracle baby' by the side of a highway in Louisiana 07/12/2024 02:41pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Reginald Walton had just rolled his 18-wheeler into Louisiana, eastbound on Interstate 10 after making a Texas delivery, when he spotted what looked like a discarded baby doll sitting on the embankment. Then he saw movement. ���I noticed that it moved and I called 911 and told Should you use a credit card or cash on vacation? 07/12/2024 07:20am • Cash is king, but credit can offer greater security when you travel. Before you head out on vacation, make plans for whether you'll pay for expenses such as meals, souvenirs and local transportation with cash or credit. Consider how you plan to spend, where you're going and how flexible your money n Half a million Houston-area homes and businesses still won't have power into next week 07/11/2024 11:13pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� About half a million Houston-area homes and businesses will still be without electricity next week, the city's largest utility said Thursday, stoking the frustration of hot and weary residents and leading a top state official to call the pace of recovery from Hurricane Beryl ���not Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the 'written word' 07/11/2024 04:51pm • GRAFTON, Mass. (AP) ��� When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot. Veteran journalists Nicholas Gage, 84, and Nicholas Basbanes Shelley Duvall, star of 'The Shining' and 'Nashville,' dies at 75 07/11/2024 03:58pm • Shelley Duvall, the intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's ���The Shining,��� has died. She was 75. Duvall died Thursday in her sleep at home in Blanco, Texas, her longtime partner, Dan G Bestselling author Brendan DuBois charged with possessing child sexual abuse materials 07/11/2024 03:48pm • EXETER, N.H. (AP) ��� Bestselling author Brendan DuBois was arraigned Thursday on multiple counts of possessing child sexual abuse materials after police discovered dozens of "sexually explicit conduct.��� DuBois was arrested Wednesday after police in Exeter, New Hampshire, opened an investigation