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Third death reported in Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion
"Communities. Police say the remains of a third person have been discovered following an explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania. The body was pulled from the rubble Saturday afternoon. More than 24 hours after the initial blast led to the building's collapse, emergency crews are searching for four others who are still unaccounted for. The cause of the deadly explosion in west Redding remains under investigation. A bill that aims to crack down on California's fentanyl crisis has been tabled in committee. Fresno assemblyman Jim Patterson thinks the penalty for selling fentanyl should be more strict than other illegal drugs because it's far more deadly. What we have gotten from the state of California instead from a public safety committee is a refusal to hold drug dealers accountable. His bill would have closed the loophole that bases the penalties on weight. Patterson says families of fentanyl overdose victims are outraged after the assembly public safety committee did not vote on the bill. And former president Donald Trump says the rule of law is a tremendous threat to western civilization, while speaking at a rally in Waco, Texas Saturday, Trump said the biggest threat to America is high level politicians that work in the United States government. I'm Brad Siegel
WTOP 24 Hour News
Bezos' rocket company pins crash on overheated engine nozzle
"Last year's Blue Origin launch failure Jeff Bezos rocket company says an overheated rocket engine nozzle is to blame. And investigation into the September incident found the design change led to the problem the company says, it's now been fixed. The new shepherd rocket was carrying experiments when its engine nozzle broke apart last fall, the rocket came crashing down after the capsule catapulted off and parachuted to safety. No one was hurt and no property on the ground was damaged, the failure grounded flights for 6 months. Quick
Evening News with Art Sanders
California eases water restrictions, but drought isn't over
", the weeks of rain and snow means some water restrictions are being lifted. The last three weeks here in California may have been the wettest ever. It's up for debate, if not the wettest, the most since the 1800s and while governor Gavin Newsom says work still needs to be done to replenish groundwater after so many years have drought that all this rain allows emergency drought rules restricting things like water and grass to be loosened. We are eliminating the mandate of mandates, what was referred to as level two drought application of the 450 or so water agencies in the state of California. The yasu announced local water agencies and farmers will now get much more from state water supplies. Alex stone, ABC News, Los Angeles. The FDA is proposing a new rule that would allow salt substitutes to be used in a greater number of foods, these substitutes use potassium instead of sodium, CDC says most Americans consume 3400 milligrams of sodium each day far more than the recommended limit of 2300 milligrams excessive salt intake has been linked to hypertension, which causes other heart problems. This is ABC News
Techmeme Ride Home
Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed - Ars Technica
"At the video in this piece showing epic's new motion capture animation tool. You kind of have to see it to believe it, quote. Epic's upcoming MetaHuman facial animation tool looks set to revolutionize that kind of labor and time intensive workflow as motion capture animation for characters in video games. In an impressive demonstration at Wednesday's state of unreal stage presentation, epic showed off the new machine learning powered system, which needed
Techmeme Ride Home
Click to cancel: FTC proposes rule to help consumers ditch subscriptions
"Call a phone number to cancel and the rule has a couple of other provisions. Many companies try to keep subscribers by offering special deals or perks, and they're still allowed to do that. But they must offer an upfront opt out that lets customers bypass the sales pitches. They also have to annually remind consumers that they're enrolled in what are dubbed negative option programs or programs where sailing to cancel something is considered an agreement to keep paying. For anything but physical goods. Now the agency has opened a public comment period for the proposal after which it will potentially make revisions and pass the final regulation. Companies should not be able to manipulate consumers into paying for subscriptions that they don't want. FTC chair Lena Khan told reporters in advance of
AP News Radio
Utah social media law means kids need approval from parents
"Utah is taking aim at social media access for teens. I'm Lisa dwyer. Utah has become the first state to sign into law, legislation that attempts to limit teenagers access to social media sites. Republican governor Spencer Cox signed a pair of measures that aim to limit when and where children can use social media and stop companies from learning kids to their sites, the law requires companies to give parents access to their children's accounts, puts a curfew on social media use from ten 30 p.m. to 6 30 a.m., as well as age verification for all Utah residents who want to use social media. Other states, such as Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, and Louisiana, a similar bills in the works. Utah's law will take effect March 2024 and court challenges are expected
Kinda Funny Games Daily
Lords of the Fallen loses its 'The', gets very slick technical showcase - Eurogamer.net
"The lords of the fallen, which is the sequel to a game called lords of the fallen, has now been renamed lords of the fallen. So the sequence the same name as lord of the ball and long awaited sequel to 2014 souls like lords of the fallen has now been renamed lords the falling. Do you want to say it again? The name change was subtly baked into a technical showcase released on March 22nd. This means the sequel now shares the exact same name with the original game despite only being released oh yeah, despite only being released around a decade apart. The lords of the fallen sequels re revealed at gamescom 2022 after years of trouble development spread across several different studios. It's back on track, however, and a first look at its gameplay was released in December last year. Can I surprise you? Yes, I've not played laws of the fall. Wow. I do think the new one looks cool. You know, people do this like God of War. They called it God of War. But that's a lot of games. The mass and the furious. Exactly. There was a lot of games in between them. You know what I mean? It's not just like calling the direct sequel a decade later, you know. Is that right? It's a bit weird. We did it. Yeah. That worked for everybody. I don't know why they're more of like a reimagining of what because the original prey and then pray that we got a few years back very, very different games. Yeah, I don't like if they explained why?
Kinda Funny Games Daily
Epic’s New Unreal Editor For ‘Fortnite’ Must Be Seen To Be Believed - Forbes
"Story number three. Epic launch is unreal editor. Fortnite, yeah. The spoilers, man. You can't do this live, all right? We have to rehearse. We have to practice. Story number three, epic launch is unreal editor for Fortnite. This comes from Tom Ivan at VGC. Epic has revealed new ways for Fortnite players to create content and earn money from doing so. If you are an audio listener, I would highly recommend you come over and check out the video of this because it looks unreal for lack of a better term. Everybody. During its state of unreal conference at GDC, epic announced the beta launch of unreal editor for Fortnite, which is abbreviated as U E FN, alongside what it's calling creator economy two. UE FN is a new PC application for creating and publishing games and experiences directly into Fortnite. It works side by side with Fortnite's existing creative toolset and teams of creators can work together across PC and console to develop and test islands in real time.
Rollye James
Relativity Space’s 3-D Printed Rocket Fails Just After Launch
"Were damaged. The world's first 3D printed rocket made its launch debut Wednesday night lifting off amid fanfare, but failing three minutes into flight far short of orbit. Although not carrying any cargo or satellites, this test mission was designed to give engineers just an idea of how the booster performs at the launch pad as well as in space as it turned out the first stage did its job following liftoff and separated as planned, but the upper stage appeared to ignite then shut down, sending it crashing into the Atlantic. Chicago's top doctors addressing a rapidly spreading a potentially deadly fungus, the CDC has been tracking candida Auris since it was first detected in the U.S. 5 years ago. It's now been found in Illinois, 27 other states and Washington D.C.. Doctor Ellison already says Illinois has been doing a good job at containing it. Behind the scenes, we have some work that is able to quickly compare that list of individuals who are coming in to
WTOP 24 Hour News
A 5,000-mile seaweed belt is headed toward Florida
"An annual seaweed bloom blossomed early this year in the Atlantic Ocean and there's a lot of it. Scientists say the great Atlantic sarcasm belt stretches across 5000 miles when it reaches the beaches of the United States and Caribbean islands in Mexico over the next few months. It will be a mess. The brown seaweed is a thick algae that smells like rotten eggs when it decays. So it'll keep coastal and resort workers very busy and while this year's bloom is clearly big, it was bigger back in 2018.