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Another day of extreme weather is brewing in the United States Wednesday after violent storms roared through more than a dozen states on Tuesday and turned deadly, bringing hurricane-strength wind gusts, massive hail and tornadoes.A derecho — a long-track storm with destructive winds — tore across the Midwest with wind gusts as high as 90 mph that ripped trees out of the rain-soaked soil and roofs off of several buildings. Some cities sustained notable damage, including the Pittsburgh area, where two people died.Additional rounds of thunderstorms will slam the Plains throughout Wednesday and continue to ramp up an already serious…
Energy bills could run high this summer as AccuWeather long-range forecasters predict a hotter-than-normal season across large swaths of the United States.Meteorological summer starts on Sunday, June 1, and runs through the end of August, a three-month span that will feature sweltering heat, severe weather, intense wildfires and the start of a dynamic hurricane season.A family walks onto the newly replenished beach in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)Summer heat to bake central, western USMany parts of the U.S. have already had a taste of summer warmth, including Phoenix, which had its earliest 100-degree temperature reading in seven years…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 180-year-old private Christian university in South Carolina is closing at the end of the semester after failing to raise $6 million to keep its doors open.Limestone University officials said that after two weeks of furious fundraising and other actions, they collected just a little over $2 million and had no choice but to close its Gaffney campus and online programs.The school had lost about half its enrollment in the past decade.“Our Limestone spirit will endure through the lives of our students and alumni who carry it forward into the world,” said Randall Richardson, chair of…
The crush of traffic going into training and running AI has quickly turned into a major cost and resource headache for organisations. Today, Cast AI — a startup building tools to ease and optimise AI and other workloads with automation — is raising a major round of funding on the back of its strong growth and partnerships with major players in the space. The company has raised $108 million — a Series C that it will be using both for more R&D as well as to expand its business both in core markets like the U.S., as well as elsewhere.…
A team of biotech startups want to create lab-grown leather based on fossil remnants of the king of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex.This ambitious project is a collaboration between The Organoid Company, a Netherlands-based genomic engineering startup; UK-based Lab-Grown Leather, a business specializing in ‘scaffold-free’ biomaterials; and VML, a US marketing agency responsible for the ‘mammoth meatball’.This trio of businesses considers lab-grown leather a “more sustainable and ethical future for the luxury materials industry”, according to a press release from VML, by avoiding the animal death, deforestation, and chemicals involved in traditional leather manufacturing processes.They hope the T. rex leather in particular…
Liverpool will not stand still this summer and rest on their laurels. The club want to be busy in the transfer market and strengthen their squad to compete again next season and develop the next title-winning team.Even captain Virgil van Dijk said the club are ‘planning to make it a big summer’ as he signed his new two-year contract earlier this month. Given Arsenal and Manchester City both intend to invest significantly, Liverpool know they must do the same to stay ahead. Work on targets to improve Arne Slot’s squad has been going on since Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes…
Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has raised $18 million in new funding led by global indirect tax technology solution provider Vertex. The startup plans to enable more small and medium businesses to use its AI-enabled capabilities for tax calculations and filings. The ongoing growth of e-commerce and cross-border trade, combined with increasingly complex tax regulations, has driven global demand for tax automation solutions. Kintsugi aims to aid companies with its software that integrates with revenue-generating points, whether that’s Shopify, Stripe, Chargebee, Quickbooks, or a custom API implementation. This helps bring…
McLaren CEO Zak Brown feels it is “inevitable” drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will collide on the track at some stage as they push to win the F1 world championship.Championship leader Piastri is 10 points ahead of second-placed Norris after five grands prix of the 2025 season having recorded three wins to his team-mate’s one. Piastri and Norris – next in action at the Miami GP this weekend – are free to race, with McLaren having no designated No 1 driver.There have been no major incidents between the pair as yet, although Brown expects that to change and is…
Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has raised $18 million in new funding led by global indirect tax technology solution provider Vertex. The startup plans to enable more small and medium businesses to use its AI-enabled capabilities for tax calculations and filings. The ongoing growth of e-commerce and cross-border trade, combined with increasingly complex tax regulations, has driven global demand for tax automation solutions. Kintsugi aims to aid companies with its software that integrates with revenue-generating points, whether that’s Shopify, Stripe, Chargebee, QuickBooks, or a custom API implementation. This helps bring…
Underestimate Bodo/Glimt at your peril, Tottenham.Just ask Porto, Besiktas, Olympiakos and Lazio this season. Roma and Celtic, who were managed then by Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou, were also victims four years ago. The most recent giant-killing of Lazio, though, was particularly historic as Bodo/Glimt became the first Norwegian side to reach a European semi-final. Now the Eliteserien champions, located above the Arctic Circle, are aiming to freeze out Spurs, whose stadium is astonishingly bigger than Bodo’s population of 55,000.”We walk into this game with confidence that whoever we meet, we believe we’re able to compete,” says Bodo/Glimt’s sporting director Havard…