Los Angeles will remain under fire risk until next week
Devastating wildfires continued to burn across the Los Angeles metro area on Friday, prompting mandatory evacuations and school closures in the area. Next week promises little chance of relief;...
View ArticleThis Map Shows How Dry Southern California Is Right Now
THIS ARTICLE is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Dry conditions in Southern California in early January 2025 set the stage for a series of wind-driven wildfires that...
View ArticleShure MV6 Review: A clean looking Gaming Mic
Getting started is as easy as plug and play, but you need the software to dive into any setting. I’m not a fan of the Motiv Mix software that is recommended on the box. Before I could download it,...
View ArticleHow the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
I first covered the virus in an article published on January 7, 2020, titled “Doctors scramble to identify mysterious disease emerging in China.” For that article, and many others to follow, I spoke...
View ArticleDownload: Greener steel, and what 2025 means for climate technology
By 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of steel will be produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan with a layer of more than 13 feet. Making this metal produces a lot of carbon dioxide. Overall,...
View ArticleA New Superconductive Material Has Been Discovered
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2024, superconductivity – the flow of electric current with zero resistance – was discovered in three different materials. Two...
View Article2025 is a critical year for climate technology
One company, called Stegra, is close to launching the world’s first commercial green steel plant, which will make the metal using hydrogen from renewable sources. (You may know this company by its...
View ArticleA New York legislator wants to take part of the California AI bill off
The bill only covers models that pass a certain threshold for the amount of computation required, usually measured in FLOPs (floating-point operations). In the bill, the guaranteed models are those...
View ArticleDownload: What’s next for AI, and stem cell therapy
Over the past few years, we’ve been trying to predict what’s coming in AI. A silly game given how fast this industry moves. But we’re on a roll, and we’re doing it again. How do we calculate the end...
View ArticleThe Best Automatic Espresso, Latte, and Cappuccino Machines (2025)
Affetto is on the expensive side, and as an automatic machine can be finicky. Just make sure that it is topped up with water and beans, and that it cleans out the background container used regularly,...
View ArticleWhat’s next for AI in 2025
How do we calculate the end time? The four hot trends to watch out for in 2024 include so-called special chatbots – interactive assistant applications powered by multimodal big language models (check:...
View ArticlePanasonic Z95A OLED TV Review: Searing Brightness and Color
Photo: Ryan Waniata Thanks to the excellent image processing, details pop, from 4K Blu-ray crystal to 1080p and even upscaling 720p. Only the fuzziest SD image fails to impress, sometimes it comes...
View ArticleDownload: How AI is changing internet search, and the future of privacy in...
Every day, we are tracked by hundreds or even thousands in the digital world. All of this is collected, packaged together with other details, and used to create highly personal profiles that are then...
View ArticleHow Watch Duty became essential in tracking wildfires in Los Angeles
If you live in Los Angeles, you’re probably familiar with Watch Duty, a free app that shows active fires, mandatory evacuation zones, air quality index, wind direction, and a lot of other information...
View ArticleAmazon Prime is closing its clothing trial program
Given that the Try Before You Buy combination only scales to a limited number of items and customers are increasingly using new AI-powered features such as virtual try-ons, personalized size...
View ArticleGroww, India’s largest commerce app, seeks $7B valuation in IPO
Groww, India’s largest retail stockbroker, is poised to file for an IPO in 10 to 12 months, seeking a valuation between $6 billion and $8 billion, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The...
View ArticleBlue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launch: how and when to watch
Blue Origin is gearing up for its biggest launch ever, but on Monday morning the effort was scrapped for technical reasons after several delays during the three-hour launch window. The window...
View ArticleAnker’s display-equipped wall charger from CES is on sale
Gadgets and inventive gizmos at CES can often define the year, but most everything seen on the showroom floor won’t be available until the end of the year, if at all. Fortunately, that’s not the case...
View ArticleInside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance
In March 2020, Frank van der Linde entered the immigration line for EU citizens at Amsterdam’s Schiphol international airport. Linde, a Dutch citizen and human rights advocate, was returning home from...
View ArticleNew US Rule Aims to Block China’s Access to AI Chips and Models with World...
The Biden administration announced a bold and controversial new export control scheme today, designed to keep advanced chips and self-made intelligence models out of the hands of adversaries such as...
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