The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects present another evolutionary front: Insects themselves can evolve resistance to the poisons that people use to kill them.

In particular, the mosquito-borne ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Netflix prices in the U.S. are going up — again.

For the second time in a little over a year, the streaming service will demand a few more dollars a month from its subscribers. Netflix's standard plan with ads will now cost $8.99, up $1. Both the prices for the standard plan with no ads and the premium plan are rising by $2, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Reports of a mystery rocket seen launching from Cape Canaveral on Thursday could be another hypersonic missile test for the Department of Defense.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security had posted navigational warnings earlier this week with air and maritime space keep-out zones similar to previous hypersonic...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Nine people will take the ride to the top of the launch tower for the Artemis II moon mission, but only five will ride back down.

That’s if NASA’s plans to launch four astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket go as planned. Targeting liftoff as early as next Wednesday, the quartet...Read more

Paul Ehrlich opened his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” with a scene recounting returning to his hotel through a crowded Delhi neighborhood on a stifling night in the mid-1960s. He described the physical sensation of overpopulation: people eating, washing, arguing, begging – “people, people, people, people.”

From that ...Read more

What’s the difference between a Roomba and “The Jetsons” robot maid, Rosie? It’s not a joke, it’s a challenge University of Maryland doctoral student Seungjae “Jay” Lee is tackling in hopes of training real-world domestic robots to master housekeeping tasks.

His work focuses on incorporating the vast reservoir of web videos to ...Read more

The disruptions from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran spread quickly to commercial aircraft, shipping lanes and the world’s energy supply. Those repercussions have already hit fuel costs, including for motorists, truckers and fishermen, and are set to spread even more widely, to packaging, household goods, appliances, medicines and ...Read more

TOKYO — Sony’s new LinkBuds Clip may not be the best-sounding earbuds in the world, and their little case could be mistaken for a ring box, but there are at least two things that make them stand out from the crowded market of earbuds.

Unlike most earbuds and headphones these days, they're not pretending to let you keep the world out. In ...Read more

Meta said its road to the metaverse ran through Seattle. Recent layoffs point to a dead end.

Meta laid off hundreds of employees Wednesday, about two months after a sweeping workforce reduction at the company.

A Meta spokesperson confirmed media reports that the Menlo Park, Calif.-based tech giant's latest cuts hit several divisions, including...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After a grueling seven weeks of court proceedings and more than 40 hours of tense deliberations across nine days in one of the country’s most closely watched civil trials, jurors handed down a landmark decision in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, finding Instagram and YouTube responsible for the suffering of a Chico ...Read more

Across much of the Western United States, winter 2026 was the year the snow never came. Many ski resorts got by with snowmaking but shut down their winter operations early. Fire officials and water supply managers are worried about summer.

Where I live in Boise, Idaho, temperatures hit the low 80s Fahrenheit (high-20s Celsius) in mid-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After a grueling seven weeks of court proceedings and more than 40 hours of tense deliberations across nine days, jurors handed down a landmark decision in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, finding Instagram and YouTube responsible for the suffering of a Chico woman who charged the platform was built to addict young users ...Read more

BALTIMORE — In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to end up like the dinosaurs.

On March 6, scientists from Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and ...Read more

Apple has introduced a new low-cost laptop called the MacBook Neo.

I know Apple laptop and “low cost” usually don’t go together. Apple has never been a company known for inexpensive hardware.

Previously, Apple’s lowest price laptop was the MacBook Air (starting at $1,099), but the new $599 Neo is a full $500 cheaper.

So, why is the ...Read more

Aiper, a world leader in smart robotic pool cleaners (and smart yard innovations), launched Aiper Experts Duo, with the EcoSurfer S2 and the Scuba V3 robotic pool cleaners, with an impressive display and demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The system is an intelligent two-robot system, working completely hands-free to ...Read more

It's one of the truly seminal events of the computer age.

In December 1979, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs led a delegation of his engineers into Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, the legendary PARC, for a demonstration of PARC's most closely held inventions.

The research lab was already known to Silicon Valley cognoscenti for having invented a ...Read more

Jurors in New Mexico leapfrogged their California peers Tuesday, handing down a $375 million verdict against Meta for endangering children while a similar lawsuit remains pending in Los Angeles County.

The jury in Santa Fe came back with a decision in just hours while the L.A. panel slogged through its eighth day of deliberations over charges ...Read more

OpenAI plans to shut down its Sora text-to-video tool, a stunning move that comes three months after Walt Disney Co. pledged to invest $1 billion in the artificial intelligence company and allow the use of dozens of beloved characters.

The San Francisco-based company did not disclose why it was shutting down the tool or the timeline for its ...Read more

NASA unveiled a new vision for its near-term future Tuesday, including construction of a complete moon base, a major increase in robotic missions and a nuclear-powered spacecraft to bring a slew of helicopters to Mars.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman revealed the plans during a daylong session dubbed “Ignite” held in Washington, ...Read more

Epic Games, the developer of the popular video game “Fortnite,” is laying off more than 1,000 employees and cutting $500 million in costs.

Chief Executive Tim Sweeney announced the cuts Tuesday morning in a message to employees. He said it has nothing to do with AI and instead pointed to what he said was a lack of “Fortnite” engagement ...Read more