When Having Your Face ‘Recognized’ Is A Treacherous Liability

Facial recognition tech presents an existential threat to the privacy and safety of darker-skinned people and immigrants. How ...
Climate Central

U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...
CNN

Trump ‘retired’ a database tracking the most expensive weather disasters. Now it’s back — and finding over $100B in losses

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ...
Fox Carolina

Former NC school board member, nonprofit leader indicted on new human trafficking charges

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A former Henderson County school board member and nonprofit director accused of child sex crimes is now facing more charges. Back in July, Michael Lee Absher was ...
Gov

PhilHealth introduces digital verification to boost transparency, stop fraud

PhilHealth Acting President and CEO Dr. Edwin M. Mercado discusses the rollout of facial recognition and real-time verification systems to strengthen transparency and prevent fraudulent claims. (Photo ...