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Sophia tries to find out what each child enjoys reading. (Facebook/Sophia’s book stand) When Sophia Parekh was seven, she noticed that not every child had the same access to books. It was during the Covid pandemic, when many families were struggling financially, and buying books was not always possible. Sophia, who loved reading, decided to…

Representative Image of the Eyemart Express website illustrating Meta Pixel tracking and customer interactions with prescription eyewear (AI-generated image) A US eyewear retailer faces a revived privacy lawsuit after a federal appeals court reversed the dismissal of claims that it shared customers’ health-related information with Meta. In Rand v. Eyemart Express, five Facebook users allege…

Brian Williams, faculty chair of the Virtual Advanced Business Technologies department at IU’s Kelley School of Business, is the lead professor for GenAI 101. Image Credit: Indiana Public Media Indiana University has expanded access to its free generative artificial intelligence course after seeing strong interest from its students, employees and alumni. Initially developed to help…

A Tennessee appeals court has upheld a trial court’s decision to value the marital home at $160,400 and award the wife 75% of its equity. In a ruling filed on October 27, 2026, the court rejected the husband’s challenge to the valuation and the division. The court found that the record supported the lower figure,…

Two 16th-century Italian Renaissance maiolica plaques that disappeared into a private collection in 1884 have sold for £100,000 at auction. The artworks were recently found hanging in the hallway of an English family home. The ceramic pieces were made in 1536 by well-known Italian artist Francesco Xanto Avelli. They had been hanging unnoticed for decades…

Red Baron Pizza announces that viral dad Walt Z has not been fired; he is the employee of the month. After Walt Z, a Michigan pizza store worker, went viral for standing up to the harassment of an influencer in the name of a prank video, social media users speculated that the video may cost…

A two-bedroom home covering 1,078 sq ft in Saint-Rémi-d’Amherst, Quebec, has been built using structural panels made from the equivalent of about 200,000 recycled plastic bottles. The building shell was fully put together on-site in just three days. The project could offer a new way to build more affordable and sustainable homes across Canada. The…

A dispute over a small strip of land in Conway, Arkansas, grew into a decade-long legal battle after a highway project restricted access to the remaining property. The Arkansas Court of Appeals has upheld a jury’s $3 million compensation award, rejecting the state’s arguments that the verdict was excessive and that evidence about replacement roads…