Login | August 28, 2026
Akron Legal News
State
As workplace surveillance grows, experts say it's good to know the ways your employer is watching
NEW YORK (AP) — College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less time with patients after tracking the number and length of her appointments. Scanners on a warehouse conveyor belt monitored the pace of workers to ensure they inspected hun ... (full story)
Schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots' flaws
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Artificial intelligence chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere, but to prepare for the new school year, a group of educators in Charleston, South Carolina, packed into a high school auditorium and talked about inviting AI into the classroom.
The teachers and principals watched as ... (full story)
How a sanctuary outside LA has cared for rare, endangered gibbons for a half-century
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In between morning feedings, the gibbons begin to sing — loudly.
Ranging from the sound of emergency sirens and birds screeching to low grunts and guttural hoots, their vocalizations reverberate from a sanctuary in the hot, dry hills of the Santa Clarita Valley, north of Los Angeles.
Over the p ... (full story)
Today in History: August 27, catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa
Today is Thursday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2026. There are 126 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) and resulting tsunamis in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claimed some ... (full story)
Amazon set to expand drone delivery of lightweight packages to 500 US cities
Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Aug. 19 to expand the airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities.
Customers could receive the drone deliveries in as fast as 30 minutes, Amazon said in a ne ... (full story)