Microsoft Develops Set-Top Box Microsoft has been developing designs for a simple set-top device for streaming video and other entertainment options. More
Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram. With the smartphone, users would be able to navigate through content by using their eyes alone, according to two unnamed people who discussed the phone with the Wall Street Journal. More
YouTube launches pay channels with campy flicks Roger Corman's campy B movies, children's shows like "Sesame Street" and "Inspector Gadget," and inspirational monologues by celebrities — these are among the 30 channels that will require a paid monthly subscription on YouTube coming soon. More
FCC moving forward on speedier in-flight Internet service U.S. federal telecommunications regulators are pushing ahead with efforts to bring faster Internet service to commercial and private airline flights. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday started deliberations on a proposal that would offer a new type of in-flight broadband service promising U.S. More
Dramatic moment quake hits car garage in Vanuatu CCTV obtained by The Associated Press showed the moment a powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck just off the coast of Vanuatu on Tuesday. 12/16/2024 - 11:51 pm | View Link
US embassy in Vanuatu suffers ‘considerable damage’ as powerful quake strikes Pacific nation A powerful 7.3 earthquake hit Vanuatu on Tuesday, damaging multiple buildings, including a complex in the capital Port Vila that hosts the diplomatic missions of Western nations including the United ... 12/16/2024 - 6:14 pm | View Link
Late-night 5.2-magnitude quake rattles Northern California coast, seismologists say A late-night 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coastline, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 6-mile deep quake hit about 50 miles west of Petrolia at ... 12/15/2024 - 1:01 am | View Link
Late-night 3.9-magnitude quake rattles Northern California, seismologists say The tremor struck about a 175-mile drive southeast from Ferndale, which was hit by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Dec. 5. 12/10/2024 - 4:21 am | View Link
Video shows impact of CA quake felt more than 500 miles away by endangered Devils Hole pupfish Just two minutes after the earthquake struck off the coast of California, "water started sloshing in Devils Hole," home of an endangered pupfish. 12/9/2024 - 3:40 am | View Link
New rules and innovations in California can serve as a template for all.
Homelessness has been a challenge in the United States since before it was a country, as the early colonies struggled to address the “wandering poor.” Today, it is a full-on crisis. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reports that in 2023, more than 650,000 people in the U.
The maker of flash drives and memory cards, gave itself a (dare we say . . . cool) rebrand ahead of its planned spin off next year.
Sandisk Corporation, the maker of flash drives and memory cards, debuted a new logo today, and it’s based on a single pixel.
The storied publication created a quarantined space to experiment with future technologies.
More than 165 years ago, the literary greats of American writing—including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Melville—assembled to cosign a boisterous manifesto promising to lead the discourse on literature, art, and politics in an initiative that would become The Atlantic.
There’s a lot that the private sector can do.
In the wake of hurricanes striking across the Southeast this fall, nonprofit organizations played a vital role in delivering much needed aid to hard hit communities. Last month, nonprofits across the country took part in educating voter. They registered young people to vote, and encouraged broad participation in the democratic process.
The owner of two dilapidated buildings along East Colfax Avenue will go before Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission for a second time Tuesday, citing financial hardship as the reason he should be allowed to demolish the 130-year-old structures.
Property owner Pando Holdings, developer Kiely Wilson’s firm, is appealing the commission’s rejection last summer of its demolition application, and the financial hardship pleading is one of the final avenues left to get permission to tear down the former mansions in the Wyman Historic District.
The historic designation of the buildings at 1600 and 1618 E.