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Purdue, Sacklers offer bankruptcy, $10-12 billion for opioid settlement: Report

OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, offered a $10 billion to $12 billion deal to settle around 2,000 opioid lawsuits,...

How insurance companies are fueling a rise in ransomware attacks

On June 24, the mayor and council of Lake City, Fla., gathered in an emergency session to decide how to resolve a ransomware...

Popular Utah rock-climbing spot vibrates in time with earth, wind, and waves

Scientists at the University of Utah have made the first detailed seismic measurements of a pillar-shaped sandstone formation in Moab National Park known...

Cable industry fights plan to require robocall-detection technology

The cable industry is fighting an attempt to require deployment of robocall-detection technology. Some phone providers have already begun deploying the technology in...

Former Google engineer Levandowski indicted for stealing trade secrets

A former engineer for Google's Waymo self-driving car division has been indicted on more than 30 criminal counts alleging he stole or tried...

Google Play app with 100 million downloads executed secret payloads

The perils of Google Play are once again on display with the discovery of an app with 100 million downloads that contained a...

Jakarta has sunk by up to 4 meters, forcing Indonesia to build a new capital

Yesterday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced a plan to move the country’s capital from Jakarta to a new location in Borneo. The reason?...

Starhopper didn’t succeed at first, but now it will try, try again

A day after SpaceX's first attempt to launch the Starhopper test vehicle to an altitude of 150 meters, the company plans to...

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