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A mosquito bites skin.
  • Maryland detected a locally acquired case of malaria, the first in over 40 years, health officials said.
  • It comes after similar cases were reported earlier this summer in Florida and Texas.
  • Health officials maintain there is an "extremely low" risk of locally contracting malaria in the US.

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Warner Bros. has spent years announcing (and quietly canceling) DC movies of all different shades, which made it a bit of a surprise that a movie based on Blue Beetle actually made it to release. DC films have been in an odd place for nearly a decade now, and this movie was now different, having originally been…

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Dr. John Warnock in 2009. | Photo by Patrick Tehan/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images

Adobe co-founder Dr. John Warnock passed away on Saturday at the age of 82, Adobe announces today. A cause of death has not been released; he is survived by his wife, graphic designer Marva Warnock, and his three children.

Warnock founded the revolutionary software company



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Mike Kurz retired this summer after 44 years as a USPS letter carrier.
  • Mike Kurz worked as a USPS letter carrier for 44 years before retiring this May.
  • Kurz says he experienced varying degrees of heat-related illness throughout his career.
  • He hopes the USPS improves conditions by providing training and air-conditioned vehicles.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  • Ron DeSantis is a member of St. Elmo, a secret society he joined while a student at Yale University.
  • A fellow member told The Times that DeSantis rolled his eyes when she told her life story to the group.
  • DeSantis often speaks to GOP audiences about what he felt was an overly liberal environment at Yale.

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A small bedroom used by slaves is pictured after it was discovered by archaeologists in a Roman villa near Pompeii, Italy.
  • A bedroom "assigned to slaves" was discovered by archaeologists near Pompeii.
  • The room at the Civita Giuliana villa sheds light on the living conditions of ancient Roman slaves.
  • It showed "the precarious and unhygienic



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  • A data breach at Tesla led to the leak of 75,735 people's personal information.
  • German publication Handelsblatt reported in May that it had obtained confidential Tesla information.
  • The information included names, addresses, cell phone numbers, and email addresses.

A massive data breach at Tesla leaked the personal information of more than 75,000 people and was the result of



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Ukrainian soldiers launch a drone at Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022.
  • Ukraine lacks the drone capacity to conduct significant strikes in Russia, a war analyst says.
  • Recent months have seen a spate of drone attacks in occupied Crimea and Moscow.
  • Ukraine can only use its own drones because of restrictions on using NATO weapons on



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The SwitchBot Curtain 3 on a telescoping rod. | Image: SwitchBot

SwitchBot has announced the Curtain 3, a smart curtain controller it says will be quieter than the Curtain 2, and twice as strong. The company also claims a new, improved (and separately available) solar panel will offer “true unlimited battery power,” something the previous panel didn’t quite achieve. The