Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A friend who was buying an older house was concerned about electrical safety and asked for my opinion as an electrical engineer. All of the AC receptacles (also called outlets) in the house were the ...

The means of identifying grounded conductors of different systems shall meet the rules of Section 200.6(D) of the 2011 NEC. April 4, 2014 If neutral conductors of different voltage systems are ...

Q: As a fellow home inspector, I think you go overboard with electrical issues, such as ungrounded two-prong outlets in old homes. Ungrounded outlets should not be reported as a defect unless found in ...

New tools for filtering malicious prompts, detecting ungrounded outputs, and evaluating the safety of models will make generative AI safer to use. Both extremely promising and extremely risky, ...

In a joint interview, the actors discuss “Under the Bridge,” their new true-crime series based on a teenager’s brutal killing in British Columbia. By Alexis Soloski “We’ve been teenage girls,” Lily ...

Breaking the rule against ungrounded common-sense assumptions is not an error of law for the purposes of appellate review, the Supreme Court of Canada has found. In a ...

Editor’s note: This story by reporter Joe Davidson originally appeared in the May 7, 2013, print edition of The Sacramento Bee, in advance of performances for the Rolling Stones’ “50 and Counting” ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...