Friday, January 17
Two men found dead in landing gear of JetBlue plane at Fort Lauderdale Airport
News

Two men found dead in landing gear of JetBlue plane at Fort Lauderdale Airport

During normal post-flight inspections on Monday, authorities reported that two individuals were discovered dead in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue aircraft in Florida. At a press conference Tuesday morning, Carey Codd, a spokesperson for the Broward Sheriff's Office, stated that their identities and the circumstances surrounding their deaths were unknown and being investigated. According to Codd, at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Monday, sheriff's office deputies responded to a report at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and paramedics pronounced the two men dead. According to Codd, autopsies will be conducted by the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office to ascertain the causes of death for both men. JetBlue said in a statement that authorities were looking into ho...
Trump White House seeks to limit staff who have direct access to the president
News

Trump White House seeks to limit staff who have direct access to the president

Florida's Palm Beach When Donald Trump enters office in two weeks, fewer people will have direct access to the president because new chief of staff Susie Wiles is trying to make the new West Wing organization more efficient. The transition team is reducing the number of senior White House employees designated as Assistant to the President, which grants a staffer the authority to enter the Oval Office and bring non-staff visitors in to meet with the president, in an attempt to improve communication with Trump. According to someone with knowledge of the transition, the president will only have a certain number of assistants. Among those not given the title are Trump's recently appointed political affairs director and legislative affairs director, which are jobs that normally carry the moni...
Zendaya and Tom Holland are reportedly engaged
News

Zendaya and Tom Holland are reportedly engaged

According to TMZandPeoplemagazine, Zendaya and Tom Holland are engaged. After Zendaya wore a big diamond ring on her left ring finger at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, rumors of their engagement started to circulate online. The actor, who didn't have Holland with her, received a nomination for her role in Challengers. At the event, fans and pundits quickly shared videos of Zendaya seemingly flaunting the new jewelry to other celebrities. She reportedly gave a cheeky smile and shrugged her shoulders inexplicably when The Los Angeles Times questioned her about the ring that evening. Zendaya and Holland's reps have been contacted by NBC News. Requests for comment were not immediately answered. In the past, the long-running celebrity pair has kept their relationship quiet. Before their aff...
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X
News

Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X

Citing a changing political and social scene and a commitment to support free speech, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, made a number of significant changes to the company's moderation policies and practices on Tuesday. According to Zuckerberg, Meta will discontinue its program of fact-checking with reliable partners and switch to a community-driven mechanism like to X's Community Notes. According to Zuckerberg, the business is also reversing modifications that decreased the quantity of political content in user feeds and updating its content control guidelines regarding political subjects. The changes will impact Threads as well as Facebook and Instagram, two of the biggest social media sites in the world with billions of users each. "We're going to get back to our roots and focus on redu...
Getty Images to buy Shutterstock as part of $3.7 billion visual content expansion
News

Getty Images to buy Shutterstock as part of $3.7 billion visual content expansion

In a move that would probably come under antitrust scrutiny, Getty Images said on Tuesday that it would combine with rival Shutterstock to form a $3.7 billion stock image powerhouse designed for the artificial intelligence era. The decision was made at a time when generative AI tools like Midjourney and OpenAI's DALL-E, which can produce images and video in response to a user's basic language input, are posing a challenge to the licensed visual content sector. According to the agreement, shareholders of Shutterstock would either receive $28.80 in cash per share, 13.67 shares of Getty Images, or 9.17 shares of Getty and $9.50 in cash for each Shutterstock share they own. Premarket trading saw a 26.5% increase in Shutterstock's shares and a 50.2% increase in Getty Images'. As the demand for ...
FTC Chair hopes Amazon, Facebook won’t get ‘sweetheart deal’ from Trump in antitrust cases
News

FTC Chair hopes Amazon, Facebook won’t get ‘sweetheart deal’ from Trump in antitrust cases

"I hope the incoming Trump administration will not let Amazon and Facebook parent Meta off the hook from pending antitrust lawsuits by my agency with a sweetheart deal," stated Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on Tuesday. But, Khan stated on CNBC's Squawk Box, "I can't predict what future people in my position are going to do." Khan's remarks coincide with apparent attempts by Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump. These initiatives have included Bezos and Zuckerberg visiting the president-elect individually at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, and contributing $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund. Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC questioned Khan about her opinion of those initiatives. It's true that the FTC has had great s...
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang unveils next generation of AI and gaming chips at CES 2025
News

Nvidia founder Jensen Huang unveils next generation of AI and gaming chips at CES 2025

Jensen Huang, the founder of Nvidia, stood on stage in a crowded Las Vegas arena, amazed by the clear real-time computer visuals on the screen behind him. A dark-haired woman took in the rays of sunshine streaming in through stained glass windows as he watched her pass through elaborate gilded double doors. At CES 2025 Monday night, Huang addressed a crowd of thousands of people, "The amount of geometry that you saw was absolutely insane." Without artificial intelligence, it would not have been feasible. The most cutting-edge consumer graphics processing units for gamers, producers, and developers, the GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs, were presented by the chipmaker and AI darling. Both desktop and laptop computers can use the technology. Prior to Huang's speech, Nvidia's st...
Their remains were found decades ago. A new push could ID serial killer’s victims
News

Their remains were found decades ago. A new push could ID serial killer’s victims

Westfield, Indiana. A renewed search is underway in labs to answer a long-standing mystery: Who were the hundreds of human bones and bone fragments that authorities discovered on the property of a suspected serial killer in Indiana decades ago? Obtaining DNA samples from the relatives of men who disappeared between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s will be crucial to the success of a new team tasked with identifying the unidentified deceased. Scientists are collecting DNA profiles from the remains, which were discovered on Herbert Baumeister's expansive suburban Indianapolis property beginning in 1996, and those samples can then be compared to those profiles. Based on evidence that included 10,000 bones and bone pieces, handcuffs, and shotgun shells, the original investigators concluded th...
Former President Jimmy Carter to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol
News

Former President Jimmy Carter to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol

Washington Following a memorial service that was attended by members of Congress, his family, Vice President Kamala Harris, and other officials, former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon. Several members of Carter's presidential Cabinet are anticipated to attend the eulogy speeches, which will be given by Harris, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. Republicans and Democrats who were members of Congress during the Carter administration, as well as Carter's White House personnel, have also been asked to pay their respects by the Carter family. According to a U.S. military news release. It also reported that Governors, members of President Joe Biden's Cabinet, Supreme Court justices, and Mayor Muriel...
Biden administration finalizes rule to strike medical debt from credit reports
News

Biden administration finalizes rule to strike medical debt from credit reports

The Biden administration completed a new rule Tuesday that will prevent medical debt from showing up on credit records for U.S. customers. About 15 million Americans will have $49 billion in medical bills removed from their credit records as a result of the adjustment, which administration officials had suggested during the summer and is scheduled to go into effect in March. Additionally, lenders will not be allowed to use medical information when making lending choices, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a statement that people's financial futures shouldn't be disrupted by illness. A specific carveout that has permitted debt collectors to misuse the credit reporting system to pressure consumers into paying medical bills they may not ...