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Starbucks has been ordered to pay a Florida woman $100,000 after she suffered first- and second-degree burns from their coffee, her lawyers announced. Joanne Mogavero, 43, endured permanent scarring after the lid on a venti-sized Pike Placecoffee popped off at a Jacksonville drive-thru window in 2014. The slip led to the scalding, 190-degree beverage to pour on her lap,her attorneys said in a statement.

Wall Street looked at the news coming out of Washington, D.C., and pushed the panic button Wednesday. In the first day of trading after The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump had told former FBI Director James Comey to stop an investigation into disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn, stocks slid the most since Election Day. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed down 1.8 percent.

Having already stabbed Uber by way of a potentially disastrous lawsuit, Waymo is now twisting the knife. The Google spinoff says it will partner with Lyft, Uber’s biggest ride-hailing rival, to help test and launch self-driving cars. Having access to this new technology would be a big coup for Lyft, as Waymo’s self-driving efforts are ― quite literally ―miles ahead of the pack.

A federal judge ruled against Uber’s request Thursday night and referred the Google spinoff’s claims to the U.S. Attorney’s office for investigation into the possible theft of trade secrets. That leaves the door open for possible criminal charges, depending on the investigation’s outcome. “The Court takes no position on whether a prosecution is or is not warranted, a decision entirely up to the United States Attorney,” U.S.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed why he doesn’t plan on banning PresidentDonald Trump from the microblogging service anytime soon — despite facing repeated calls to do so. “I believe it’s really important to hear directly from our leadership,” he told NBC’s “Today” show in an interview posted online Thursday, adding that it’s also critical to hold leaders accountable.

Waymo, a Google-spinoff, is seeking an injunction against Uber’s program, effectively halting it for the duration of the trial. Self-driving vehicles are central to Uber’s long-term business strategy, so halting work on them could have severe financial repercussions for the company. At the heart of the case is a technology called LiDAR that helps an autonomous vehicle map out and navigate its surroundings as it’s driving.

Shrinking seat spaceis a tangible representation of the decline in customer service since the golden days of airline travelin the 1950s. Until 1985, seat pitch― the industry term for the distance from one seat to another and a good proxy for what normal humans call “legroom” ―was between 31 and 35 inches in economy class, according to a2014 analysis by USA Today. Now, the low end of that spectrum, about 31 inches, is standard for major U.S.

The world went a bit duller when Crayola announced in March that it was retiring its sunny Dandelion yellow crayon that had been in kids’ lives for decades. Now make way for the new color that the company hopes will chase away your crayon blues ... with a very new blue. The crayon color, still to be named, is inspired like a bolt from the blue by the discovery of the YInMn pigment.

A California family says they were forced off of an overbooked Delta flight and threatened with jail time last week after refusing to give up a seat one of their young children was sitting in. In video posted to YouTube on Wednesday, Brian Schear of Huntington Beach is seen arguing with airline staff after he’s asked to relinquish a seat that he says he purchased for one of his kids. “I bought the seat and you need to just leave us alone,” Schear says in the cellphone video.