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The group aims to begin piloting business certification in Southern California, the nation's silicosis epicenter, as early as this summer, according to testimony by ISFA's CEO Laurie Weber to California regulators Thursday in Sacramento. The audit and training program, which would be expanded statewide later in the year, aims to protect workers without banning artificial stone, she added. "We believe that bans happen when systems fail, and we're here to help fix the system," Weber said. "We want an opportunity to sit at the table and talk about how to solve this together."

They've got it backwards. It's not the lawsuits that should be banned, it's the stone slabs that should be banned, because they are deadly and they cannot be fabricated safely,

One of the most talked-about crypto events in recent months has been the growing acceptance of cryptocurrencies within traditional financial systems. Bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), approved earlier, continued to influence market sentiment as more institutional players gained regulated access to crypto price movements. This development helped bring increased attention and trading volume to the market. Another key milestone discussed in this review is Bitcoin's most recent halving cycle.

Whenever medical AI handles anything with medium to high risk, you want regulation: internal self-regulation or external governmental regulation. It's mostly been internal thus far, and there are differences in how each hospital system validates, reviews, and monitors healthcare AI. When done on a hospital-by-hospital basis like this, costs to do this kind of evaluation and monitoring can be significant, which means some hospitals can do this, and some can't.

On a cold morning in December 2024, florist Madeline King was on a buying trip to her local wholesaler when a wave of dizziness nearly knocked her over. As rows of roses seemed to rush past her, she tried to focus. She quickly picked the blooms she needed and left. I'm not doing this any more, she thought. That month, after eight years, she closed her Minneapolis-based florist.

ChatGPT now has more than 800 million visitors per week, and hundreds of millions are using Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Meta's Lambda. These AI systems are powerful and have many valuable uses in business, medicine, education, science, and other fields. They also have scary uses such as military applications, spreading misinformation, and the elimination of jobs.

"Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be 'ripped off' by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration. AFFORDABILITY!"

"There have been toys like that on the market for years, but they've been very not very interesting from a sophistication standpoint- they didn't evolve with the person and the AI capability lets you mature, lets the pet mature with you," Vena said.

Mohamed Abdisamad underwent a non-therapeutic male circumcision on 12 February 2023, performed by a circumciser who had been recommended to his parents and requested by them to perform the procedure on their son, according to the West London Coroner's report. The boy began showing symptoms of illness three to four days after the procedure and was taken to Hillingdon Hospital by ambulance on 19 February 2023.

When I experienced it, I burst out crying,

Personalization tools allow users to configure the interface according to their preferences with customizable themes configurable shortcuts and adapted displays ensuring an optimal and intuitive user experience. Advanced search functionalities allow quick location of specific titles using keywords provider names or game mechanic characteristics while personalized recommendations based on gameplay history suggest alternatives likely to match individual preferences. The diversity of content

"And I never say no"We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.- Rep. Zooey Zephyr (@zoandbehold.bsky.social) 2025-12-28T18:20:12.992Z

From herbalists in Africa gathering plants to use as poultices to acupuncturists in China using needles to cure migraines, or Indian yogis practising meditation, traditional remedies have increasingly being shown to work, and deserve more attention and research, according to a World Health Organization official. A historical lack of evidence, which has seen traditional practices dismissed by many, could change with more investment and the use of modern technology, according to Dr Shyama Kuruvilla, who leads the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre.

RMJDT is being pitched as a ringgit-pegged token tied to Johor's Crown Prince. It was launched by his company, Bullish Aim, and issued on Zetrix, a network connected to Malaysia's national blockchain infrastructure. The token is intended for payments and cross-border trade settlement, with the project also announcing a 500 million Malaysian ringgit ($121 million) Zetrix-token treasury to support the network's day-to-day operations.

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Prize draw platforms sit at the intersection of consumer entertainment, payments and regulation. While often perceived as simple promotional products, their commercial viability is shaped by trust, compliance and revenue structure. Digital prize draw businesses occupy a distinct niche in the UK market. Win A Million, which launched in 2025, operates as an online prize draw platform offering both paid and free entry routes.

The Spanish government announced on Monday that it has fined the online rentals giant 64 million euros ($75 million) for advertising unlicensed rental listings in the country. This decision is the latest in several months of back-and-forths, as the government previously ordered Airbnb to remove more than 120,000 listings it identified as unlicensed. While Spain's Consumer Affairs Ministry said the fine was a final decision and couldn't be appealed, San Francisco-based Airbnb is reportedly planning to challenge it in court.

We need to have a more mature relationship with risk. Projects often do not go ahead because of concerns about safety but often all you are doing is moving the risk somewhere else. He said the UK's risk aversion was demonstrated to him by a recent decision by London's royal parks to close during high winds. Instead of going for a walk through the park, [people] ended up walking around the edge of it instead, where there were often more trees.

San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley, is now ground zero in California's battle over how to govern the rise of data centers used to power artificial intelligence. The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is "the West Coast's premier destination for data center development." The investor-owned utility now estimates it has enough capacity in its planning pipeline to push the city's electricity use to almost three times its current peak.

The sidewalk outside Majed Zeidan's grocery store in San Francisco's Mission District has stayed filled with flowers, candles, memorials and pictures since his cat was crushed under a Waymo in late October. A month later, a Waymo reportedly crushed a dog. Amid the pictures of the cat, a visitor had placed a poster that said, save the cat, kill the car. That's when Zeidan knew Kit Kat, his bodega cat, had become the face of the simmering discontent over San Francisco's growing number of self-driving cars.

Kalshi and Polymarket maintain their platforms offer "event contracts" between private parties that should be regulated like commodities rather than traditional gambling subject to state oversight; an argument that has received pushback from government officials, NBC Chicago said. Companies like Kalshi and Polymarket should "package sports betting as events contracts" to circumvent established gaming regulations, state attorneys general claimed in a lawsuit in June.

After a prolonged will-they, won't-they phase between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix swooped in with an $83 billion offer on Friday to acquire the Warner Bros. side of the business - which includes the film and TV studios, HBO Max and HBO. Variety reports that the $83 billion in enterprise value (meaning the entire worth of the business, including debt) levels out to about $72 billion in equity value, which is the amount that WBD shareholders actually pocket. The deal is slated to close in 12 to 18 months, after the planned spin-off of Discovery Global into its own company in Q3 next year.

The world's largest prediction market platform is returning to the U.S. On Wednesday, Polymarket posted on X that users can get on the waitlist for its app, saying the company will start by offering sports betting, with "markets on everything" to follow. Polymarket's impending return to the U.S. comes at a time when prediction market services, including Kalshi and Robinhood, are challenging the likes of DraftKings and FanDuel for a share of the lucrative sports betting market,

It was the kind of cold, damp morning that makes it hard to get out of bed, much less get a child out the door. The sun had not even risen when five-year-old Thomas Cooper and his mother, Annie Cooper, arrived for an appointment on 31 January at the Oxford Center in Troy, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Thomas was an exuberant child with a button nose and pinchable cheeks a little kid who loved running fast, playing Minecraft and watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, according to a GoFundMe set up by his family. He had just received money in a special red envelope for lunar new year, and he planned to spend it later that day with his little brother. But first, he was going to receive hyperbaric oxygen therapy for his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and sleep apnea. That morning, Thomas got into a tubular metal and clear plastic chamber, which was sealed, pressurized and filled with 100% oxygen.

Flying often first requires crawling, in a car, in slow or stopped traffic that eventually treats you to a view of airplanes soaring away from your ground-anchored vehicular misery. After decades of hype about flying cars, the past 10 years have seen a pivot to something of a car-plane hybrid: an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that provides taxi-like service.