APRIL 20, 2019
Amazon Flex driver Arielle McCain, 24, makes a delivery in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 18, 2018. - Getty Images
Amazon is now making its delivery drivers take selfies, it confirmed to The Verge, in a bid to reduce fraud. Using facial recognition, the company will verify drivers’ identities to make sure they are who they say...
APRIL 19, 2019
DC and northern Virginia are under a tornado watch Friday, along with a flash flood watch. (Image via Shutterstock)
DC and much of northern Virginia are under a tornado watch Friday, while a flash flood watch continues into Saturday morning.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Easter weekend weather forecast has gone from soggy to possibly dangerous for the District of...
APRIL 19, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore 213 for 4 (Kohli 100, Moeen 66, Russell 1-17) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 203 for 5 (Rana 85*, Russell 65, Steyn 2-40) by 10 runs
KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL - At the conclusion of the first quarter of the match, Kolkata Knight Riders had Royal Challengers Bangalore, the worst team in the tournament by...
APRIL 19, 2019
No one likes to jolt awake from a deep sleep to a shooting pain radiating through their leg. Most people refer to this type of leg cramp as a Charley horse and it’s incredibly common for them to occur at night. A 2017 survey from PLOS One found that nearly 30 percent of adults in the U.S....
APRIL 19, 2019
"Millions" of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands.
"We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users," Facebook said in a blog post.
"We will be notifying...
APRIL 19, 2019
A look at a 1,600-pound great white shark in the Gulf of Mexico. OCEARCH
A 12-foot-long, 1,600-pound great white shark has been located in the Gulf of Mexico and researchers are tracking its movements in order to better understand the species. According to the non-profit research group OCEARCH, the great white, affectionately nicknamed Miss Costa, was...
APRIL 18, 2019
India will skip the second Belt and Road Forum being hosted by China next week to boost President Xi Jinping’s five-year-old flagship connectivity project, people familiar with developments said on Thursday.
The reasons behind the decision to decline the invitation for the second iteration of the forum are the same ones that drove a boycott of the first...
APRIL 18, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Mumbai Indians 168 for 5 (Krunal 37*, de Kock 35, Rabada 2-38) beat Delhi Capitals 128 for 9 (Dhawan 35, Rahul 3-19, Bumrah 2-18) by 40 runs
DELHI - Hardik Pandya monstered 32 off 15 balls, Krunal Pandya struck 37 not out off 27, and together the two put on a fifth-wicket partnership worth 54 off...
APRIL 18, 2019
Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, a gigantic carnivore known from most of its jaw, portions of its skull, and parts of its skeleton found in Kenya, was a member of the extinct group known as the hyaenodonts. - Illustration by Mauricio Anton
The handful of mysterious fossils sat unstudied for decades, tucked safely in a drawer at the Nairobi National Museum...
APRIL 18, 2019
Update: In May 2017, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Trump that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein had just appointed Mueller as special counsel. Trump slumped back in his chair, according to notes from Jody Hunt, Sessions’s chief of staff. “Oh my God, this is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m f---ed,” Trump...
