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Bitcoin's $235 billion crash masks bigger shift in crypto
The easiest way to understand crypto used to be to look at Bitcoin.When the world’s largest cryptocurrency rose, money... Read More
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Detroit River pollution projects advance with state, EPA agreement
DETROIT — Michigan and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new $10 million partnership Monday that will accelerate pollution cleanup work on the Detroit River, a waterway loaded with toxic compounds left...Read more
Apple revamps Siri as it tries to catch up in the AI race
Apple on Monday unveiled a new version of its virtual assistant Siri, to take on its artificial intelligence-powered rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.
The California smartphone maker has lagged behind ...Read more
5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole
Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers have become the ...Read more
SpaceX knocks out sunrise Space Coast launch with record-setting booster
A SpaceX launch at sunrise on Monday was business as usual, especially for the booster on the flight, which had made the trip 34 times previous.
A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-35 mission carrying 29 Starlink satellites ...Read more
‘Monster Hunter Now’ Season 10 brings two big monsters to the game
Summer is the best time of year for location-based mobile games. School is out, workers are on vacation, and it’s time for adventure, whether traveling to new cities or doing a staycation. Franchises such as “Pokemon...Read more
Commentary: Does science need autonomous AI?
As technology developers and researchers rush to develop autonomous AI research tools (i.e., systems that independently perform tasks by designing their workflows and utilizing available tools) an urgent but rarely ...Read more
Today's Word "hortatory"
hortatory \HOR-tuh-tor-ee\ (adjective) - Marked by strong urging; serving to encourage or incite; as, "a hortatory speech."
"Giles later gave up the position in the conviction that he could reach thousands with his ...Read more
Weather-ectomy
Six words have had their weather terms removed. The weather terms have been placed into Group A. The remaining letters of each word have been placed into Group B. Your task is to reconstitute the words by merging each weather term with the proper set of letters. Other than merging the two groups together, there is no rearranging of the letters. Example: sand + pne = spanned (SpANneD).
Group A: cloud, hail, rain, sleet, storm, wind
Group...
This Day in History, June 8
On June 8th, 1949, celebrities such as Danny Kaye and Helen Keller were named members of the Communist party during the Red Scare.
Iguanas bounce back in South Florida after February freeze wiped out thousands
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Michele Holtfreter planted fresh pentas in her yard this spring — only to find an iguana was tearing into her blossoms.
“After they started flowering, there was a big green iguana hanging ...Read more
Mixing Math and Poetry
What kind of poem am I?
(12 + 144 + 20 + (3 x (4^.5)))/7 + 5 x 11 = (9 ^2) + 0
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This Day in History, June 7
On June 7th, 1099, the Siege of Jerusalem began.
Lake Mead is barreling faster than ever toward 'system crash,' top experts say
LAS VEGAS — The Colorado River Basin faces a complete “system crash,” with little chance that a wet winter will fully prevent a worst-case scenario, a leading group of experts says in a new academic paper.
That is, ...Read more
Colorado rancher acknowledges her employee shot wolf in March
DENVER — Fourth-generation Colorado rancher Susan Nottingham acknowledges that one of her employees was behind the killing of the matriarch of the new King Mountain wolf pack in March.
“One of my employees ended up ...Read more
Farewell, my Smilodon: La Brea Tar Pits to close for 2 years
LOS ANGELES — The back rooms of the La Brea Tar Pits are, at the moment, a maze of packing crates tagged with handwritten sticky notes that say things like "bison skulls" or "camel hip."
Every bone, down to the last ...Read more
LA region begins the year with the smoggiest first 5 months in a decade
LOS ANGELES — The first five months of 2026 in Southern California have been the smoggiest — with the highest number of unhealtful air days — in more than a decade, according to statewide air monitoring.
So far this...Read more
A flesh-eating worm from the 1960s is re-invading the US. Are California cattle at risk?
LOS ANGELES — Federal agricultural inspectors detected a case of New World screwworm larvae — maggots that burrow into the flesh of living animals and sometimes humans — on a 3-week-old calf in south Texas, near the ...Read more
3D-printed bones? Science fiction comes to life at University of Miami's new lab
MIAMI — Inside the University of Miami’s newly opened 3D-bioprinting lab, the future of medicine looks a lot like science fiction. Think miniscule robotic devices that repair the body. Molecules designed to hunt down ...Read more
Today's Word "vituperate"
vituperate \vy-TOO-puh-rate, -TYOO-, vi-\ (verb) - To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
"The incensed priests...continued to raise their voices, ...Read more
Danger?
Parker was hiding under a table. He was frightened, and knew that his brothers were probably already dead. He heard a couple of blasts, then Parker knew he was okay. What happened?
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