Adobe faces patent suit
MANHATTAN — Adobe couldn’t shake all the patent infringement claims filed against the creative technologies software giant by a photographer who says that Adobe’s “Cinemagraph” animation tech infringes...
View ArticleHanoi river level hits 20-year high as SE Asia typhoon toll nears 200
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Residents of Vietnam’s capital waded through waist-deep water Wednesday as river levels hit a 20-year high and the toll from the area’s strongest typhoon in decades rose to at...
View ArticleBanks missed a scam
PITTSBURGH, Penn. — Two banks were unable to dismiss a North Carolina church’s negligence lawsuit, which was filed in a Pennsylvania federal court after the church was scammed into wiring about...
View ArticleFur flies as Germany hits back at Trump over energy, pets
BERLIN (AFP) — Germany hit back Wednesday at claims made by former U.S. President Donald Trump over the country’s energy network — and also mocked his baseless claim that immigrants are eating...
View ArticleAmazon to invest $10.5 billion in UK in boost for new Labour government
LONDON (AFP) — U.S. tech giant Amazon is to invest £8 billion ($10.5 billion) in Britain over the next five years, creating thousands of jobs via its web services arm, the company and U.K. government...
View ArticleSpain’s Constitutional Court to examine Catalan amnesty
MADRID (AFP) — Spain’s Constitutional Court said Wednesday it will examine the constitutionality of an amnesty law for Catalan separatists, raising doubts over its application to hundreds of people...
View ArticleIn Karen Read case, First Circuit urges compromise on public protest
BOSTON (CN) — Police in Canton, Massachusetts — already under fire for supposedly framing Karen Read for the death of her police officer boyfriend — came under further attack in the First Circuit...
View ArticleConservative group asks 3rd Circuit to unseal records after glitch allowed...
PHILADELPHIA (CN) — A Third Circuit panel seemed sympathetic Wednesday to a conservative election integrity group’s demand for documentation surrounding a glitch in Pennsylvania driver’s license...
View ArticleGOP’s short-term budget patch disintegrates amid party dissent
WASHINGTON (CN) — Facing a fiscal deadline in just over two weeks, House Republicans on Wednesday abandoned plans to vote on a budget patch that would have kept the government funded into the new year...
View ArticleTiny magnets in muscles could give prosthetic limbs more finesse
(CN) — A team of Italian researchers has developed the first-ever prosthetic hand controlled by magnets, a breakthrough they say could give people more dexterity compared to existing technology....
View ArticleEight bells return to belfry of Notre Dame in Paris
PARIS (AFP) — Eight bells, one weighing over four tons, were returned to Notre Dame cathedral in Paris Thursday, just months before it is due to reopen five years after a devastating fire. “These...
View ArticleBike-loving Dutch grapple with ‘fatbike’ phenomena
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch transport authorities said Thursday they have seized thousands of illegal electric “fatbikes” imported from China, as the bicycle-loving country grapples with a...
View ArticleRed-hot angry cop
OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi police officer’s request for immunity was denied by a federal court in light of excessive force claims brought by a familiar suspect who was illegally parked; the cop...
View ArticleIreland launches EU privacy probe into Google AI development
DUBLIN (AFP) — An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy launched an investigation Thursday into Google’s artificial intelligence development. The inquiry comes as the EU and...
View ArticleCan’t dodge your debts
SEATTLE — A garment manufacturer’s complaint will continue in Washington federal court against the holdings company that acquired the Rebecca Taylor fashion brand in 2019. The holdings company used...
View ArticleSpanish prime minister meets Venezuelan opposition figure amid tensions
MADRID (AFP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez met Thursday with Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who fled to Madrid over the weekend requesting asylum, as tensions...
View ArticleCornell University faces gender bias suit
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Cornell University won partial judgment on a former assistant professor’s defamation claim, though his Title IX gender-based discrimination claim against the university was preserved...
View ArticleNew York grand jury slaps Harvey Weinstein with new criminal charges,...
MANHATTAN (CN) — Harvey Weinstein is facing additional criminal charges in Manhattan after a grand jury returned another indictment against the disgraced Hollywood film producer, New York prosecutors...
View ArticleNew York’s highest court declines to hear Trump’s appeal to lift hush money...
MANHATTAN (CN) — New York’s highest court on Thursday declined to hear further efforts from Donald Trump to get the gag order in his hush money case lifted, meaning that the order is likely to stick...
View ArticleClimate change-fueled landslide in Greenland shook Earth for 9 days, study says
(CN) — A landslide in Greenland triggered by climate change set off a huge tsunami that made the Earth shake for nine days, a study published Thursday revealed. Scientists were scratching their heads...
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