Month: September 2023

Americans Can Now Get Updated COVID-19 Shots

Most Americans should get an updated COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said Tuesday. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months and …

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Apple’s New iPhones Get Faster Chips, Better Cameras and New Charging Ports

Apple unveiled its next generation of iPhones Tuesday — a lineup that will boast better cameras, faster processors, a new charging system and a price hike for the fanciest model. …

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Swiss Students Break World Record for Electric Car Acceleration

From zero to 100 kph in less than a second: A racing car built by students has broken the world record for electric vehicle acceleration, a Swiss university said Tuesday.  …

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US Cyber Teams Are on the Hunt in Lithuania 

For at least the second time this year, U.S. cyber forces have come to the aid of a Baltic ally, as concerns linger about potential cyberattacks from Russia and other …

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American Researcher Doing Well After Rescue From Deep Turkish Cave, Calling It ‘Crazy Adventure’

An American researcher was “doing well” at a Turkish hospital, officials said Tuesday, after rescuers pulled him out of a cave where he fell seriously ill and became trapped 1,000 …

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Is Giant Panda Program in US a Victim of US-China Tensions?

The giant pandas that have been living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington for 23 years will return to China by the end of this year. VOA’s Veronica Balderas …

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Met Opera, Lincoln Center Theater Commission Work About Detained Ukrainian Children

A Ukrainian composer has been commissioned to write an opera about mothers from that country going into Russia to rescue their forcibly detained children. The Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center …

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UK Scientist Who Created Dolly the Sheep Clone Dies at 79

British scientist Ian Wilmut, whose research was central to the creation of the cloned animal, Dolly the Sheep, has died at the age of 79, the University of Edinburgh said …

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‘Cybersecurity Issue’ Prompts Computer Shutdowns at MGM Resorts Across US

A “cybersecurity issue” led to the shutdown of some casino and hotel computer systems at MGM Resorts International properties across the U.S., a company official reported Monday.  The incident began …

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US Approves Updated COVID Vaccines to Rev Up Protection for Fall

The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter. The Food and Drug Administration …

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NYC’s Famous Courtroom Sketch Artist Talks About Her Unique Job

Jane Rosenberg started her courtroom sketch artist career drawing prostitutes in New York’s night court in 1980. Four decades later, she is still making court sketches, but these days some of her portraits are of much more well-known …

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Google’s Rivals Get Day in Court As Momentous US Antitrust Trial Begins

DuckDuckGo, which has long complained that Google’s tactics have made it too tough to get people to use their search engine on a mobile phone, will be one of many …

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Sweden Brings More Books, Handwriting Practice Back to Its Tech-Heavy Schools

As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and …

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Zambian Film Focuses on Hardships Faced by Boy With Albinism

A 2022 film highlighting the plight of a person with albinism in Zambia is streaming on Netflix. “Can You See Us” is based on the true story of a boy …

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US Researchers Push Front Lines of Mosquito Control

It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and iridescent coloring …

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‘The Nun II’ Conjures $32.6 Million to Top Box Office

Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn’t scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for ” The Nun II.” The sequel to the 2018 hit, released in 3,728 theaters by …

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Greece Warns of Infectious Diseases Spreading After Floods Leave Livestock Dead 

The death toll from flash floods that have inundated central Greece due to Storm Daniel has risen to 12 with the number expected to rise. The clean-up task in the …

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Israeli Delegation Attends UN Heritage Conference in Saudi Arabia

An Israeli delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to attend a U.N. conference on world heritage sites, in the first public visit by government officials to the kingdom, an …

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Mosquito-Borne Dengue Grows Deadlier in South Asia as Planet Warms

Mosquito-borne dengue fever is taking a heavy toll on South Asian nations this year as Bangladesh grapples with record deaths and Nepal faces cases in new areas, with disease experts …

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Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Poor Things’ Wins Top Prize at Venice

The Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival was awarded Saturday to a hilarious and shockingly explicit reworking of Frankenstein, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a sex-mad reanimated corpse. …

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AI Technology Behind ChatGPT Built in Iowa Using Lots of Water

The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from …

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