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Wilt Chamberlain built his custom Bel-Air estate The custom-built Bel-Air home originally created for basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain has sold for about $9.7 million (£7.6 million), ending years of attempts to sell the large property at a much lower price than its original asking price. According to real estate records published by Mansion Global and…

Rideshare giant Uber and one of its drivers have been ordered by an arbitrator to pay $40 million in damages to the parents of a 23-year-old woman, Emily Normandin-Parker, who was struck and killed by traffic after the cab driver kicked her and her friend out of the cab on a California freeway. The ruling,…

Harsh Jaiswal (left) and Rahul Maini. Three Indian-origin cybersecurity researchers, Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati and Rahul Maini, demonstrated how Anthropic’s Claude AI could be used to exploit vulnerabilities and gain access to OpenAI employee accounts and the company’s internal code repository, Wall Street Journal reported.The researchers, who work at cybersecurity startup Hacktron AI, carried out…

Tom says he has become used to the smell after cleaning many portable toilets Daniel Tom was 31 when he started Bay Area Sanitation in 2023 with one truck and 100 portable toilets. Two years later, his business had grown to nearly 2,000 toilets and a fleet of 12 vacuum pumper trucks serving events and…

Image: Dale Anderson, Project Survival’s Cat Haven A black jaguar named Samba at Project Survival’s Cat Haven, a wild cat conservation facility in Dunlap, California, has died following a venomous snake bite. The 14-year-old jaguar, born at the sanctuary, was rushed for emergency veterinary care after staff noticed swelling in one leg. Despite receiving antivenom…

Solar plants are currently being touted as the future bitcoins for economies and the environment. As futuristic as the approach towards them may be, they still rely on a process that is extremely traditional. Teams arrive at the site, move structures and install thousands of components to make up a structure that can span hundreds…

Joe Petraro-Hyppolite, a 13-year-old from Long Island, New York, is preparing to begin a master’s programme at New York University in 2027. His academic journey has attracted attention after he reportedly scored 1,590 out of 1,600 on the SAT at the age of 10 and earned his high school diploma at 11. He is currently…

File photo: The Pentagon is seen from the air, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Washington The Pentagon is considering withdrawing at least 25,000 US troops from Europe, potentially cutting the American military presence on the continent by nearly one-third, NBC News reported Thursday.The drawdown could be even larger, with some options involving the withdrawal of…

At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, a new group of workers has arrived with a rather unusual job description. They are expected to spend the coming months eating their way through dry vegetation.The base has brought in 471 goats as part of a pilot project aimed at reducing the amount of flammable…

A rare tree daisy from Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island is receiving a new lifeline after two seedlings arrived at Logan Botanic Garden in south-west Scotland. Dendroseris neriifolia has been reduced to one known wild tree, which grows on a steep cliff and is supported by ropes to prevent it from falling. Conservationists in Chile and…