President Trump was informed within 30 minutes after the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a nationwide ground stop Friday afternoon, according to U.S. officials. The ground stop resulted in thousands of canceled flights and stranded travelers across the U.S. The FAA announced that all planes would be grounded at 3:36 p.m. ET — while 3,500 flights…
Airspace across the United States slowly began returning to normal on Saturday after a rare national ground stop canceled thousands of flights and stranded travelers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a news conference Saturday, “We are back at full operations.” He thanked the pilots, airline staff, air traffic controllers, and FAA for their professionalism…
London — Cyberattacks on grocery store refrigeration systems across Europe sent temperatures soaring on Monday, spoiling food and causing significant financial losses in the second such incident in less than a month. In October, hundreds of French stores were targeted in a similar attack that sent temperatures in some units soaring to 122° Fahrenheit, destroying…
In a 1951 speech, British mathematician Alan Turing theorized that “intelligent machinery” could one day “take control” of society. “There would be plenty to do in trying, say, to keep one’s intelligence up to the standard set by the machines, for it seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take…
