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How secure are your online accounts? Do you use the same password for everything? Using the same password for everything is a bad idea because it makes it easier for hackers to access your accounts. If one of your accounts gets compromised, the hacker can use your password to try to break into your other…
Ever pick up the phone, hear a voice, and get that sinking feeling: “This can’t be real… can it?” That unsettling doubt is what David from Los Angeles felt, as did many others when they got a ring from the “LASD West Hollywood Station.” Complete with police chatter in the background and all the right…
Are you looking for simple ways to make a few extra bucks? Who isn’t right? Well, you’re in luck because we’ve got 10 great apps that allow you to use your data for cash. Some let you shop, play games, work out and more. There could be a trade-off to your privacy, so be sure…
Students, retirees, scientists and a handful of politicians and celebrities were among tens of thousands of people who began to fill the streets of Midtown Manhattan on Sunday to demand that world leaders quickly pivot away from fossil fuels dangerously heating up the planet. Sunday’s demonstrations were part of a weekend of large peaceful protests…
A 1-year-old boy died on Friday and three other children were hospitalized after all four were apparently exposed to an opioid at a state-licensed day care in the Bronx, city officials said. The police said they later found a packaging device typically used by drug dealers there. The New York City medical examiner’s office said…
Are you worried about your car being stolen by thieves? You have good reason to be concerned. Nearly two vehicles are stolen every minute in the U.S., based on the data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). This means there are about 2,736 car thefts per day or a whopping 82,080 vehicles ripped off…
Italy was in the grip of extreme heat waves, hellish wildfires and biblical downpours, and a nerve-wracked young Italian woman wept as she stood in a theater to tell the country’s environment minister about her fears of a climatically apocalyptic future. “I personally suffer from eco-anxiety,” Giorgia Vasaperna, 27, said, her eyes welling and her…
A battle between Detroit carmakers and the United Auto Workers union, which escalated on Friday with targeted strikes in three locations, is unfolding amid a once-in-a-century technological upheaval that poses huge risks for both the companies and the union. The strike has come as the traditional automakers invest billions to develop electric vehicles while still…
Tucker Marr’s life changed forever last October. He was on his way to a wedding reception when he fell down a steep flight of metal stairs, banging the right side of his head so hard he went into a coma. He’d fractured his skull, and a large blood clot formed on the left side of…
It had been clear for years that the dams protecting Derna, on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, were in danger of giving way. Torrential rains were not new. Decade after decade, they had pounded the area, washing away the soil that helped soak up water as it ran down from the dry hills above town. Climate change…
