Despite suggestions it has been losing its edge, California is way ahead of others when it comes to the hottest technology right now: artificial intelligence.

The regions around San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles are among the top ranked in the country for AI, according to a report released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution.

The ...Read more

Just because Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos aren’t the best of friends, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper will directly compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites for broadband internet, doesn’t mean everyone can’t still get along.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 2:30 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday with 24 of Amazon’s satellites from Cape ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Depending on how you look at it, UC Irvine doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, just made an already unimaginably difficult job – finding and observing planets outside our solar system – a lot harder or a lot more accurate.

Either way, what both men insist they didn’t do is transmogrify into the ...Read more

Nvidia is already the world's most valuable company being one of the biggest beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom.

This week, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker got another windfall.

The Jensen Huang-led technology giant on Monday received approval from the U.S. government to sell some of its AI chips in China, ...Read more

Hanging pictures should generally be easy, but often when you are hanging multiple frames at a specific angle or in a particular pattern, the results aren't what you want. With the Hozo M-Cube 02 Anti-Gravity Combo laser level/measurer, you'll wonder: Where has a tool like this been all my life? And, from now on you'll never hang anything that...Read more

This week a reader is having a problem with Microsoft OneDrive.

“I had been keeping all of my files off of OneDrive successfully for several years. Somehow in the last year, all of my files, documents, photos, etc., have been moved to the OneDrive cloud storage. I want everything back and nothing left on the cloud. Each time I have followed...Read more

CHICAGO — Already the calls are coming in at Chicago’s All Bright Solar.

Customers want solar roofs installed on their homes — and they want them before a federal tax credit worth about $8,000 expires at the end of the year.

The repeal of that tax credit under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is “pretty ...Read more

MIAMI -- Are those big, juicy burgers really bad for the planet? Alas, yes. Is eating organic food going to save it? Unfortunately, no, and that option might actually not be so good — at least for the ailing global climate.

Those just a couple of the takeaways from Miami writer Michael Grunwald’s deep dive into how humanity’s insatiable ...Read more

Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang spent months telling everyone what a grave mistake the U.S. was making restricting shipments of artificial intelligence processors to China — with little sign that his argument was swaying anyone.

Then, very suddenly, that all changed.

Late on Monday, the chipmaker said it received assurances that the U.S. ...Read more

BOSTON —Phones with the Sharktivity app were buzzing on the regular for the first time this season on Tuesday.

Shark alerts were coming in often during the afternoon, as people reported that they saw great white sharks off Chatham.

“White shark spotted 40 feet off North Beach Island (Chatham),” reads the shark alert on the Atlantic White...Read more

MIAMI — Fishermen sometimes complain that they munch their catch before they can get it into their boat, and every so often, one might bite a swimmer or surfer. But as far as the health of our oceans go, sharks are vital – and seeing fewer of them, as new research projects, might have “catastrophic” consequences.

“We’ve noticed that...Read more

Along the banks of the Lacantún River, a hollow tree hid two creatures never before reported in Mexico.

Just a stone’s throw from an “extensive, well‑preserved tract of tropical rainforest,” two Phyllostomus hastatus, also known as the greater spear-nosed bat, were roosting in the trunk of the large Ceiba pentandra, or Kapok tree, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For decades, biologists have studied how cities affect wildlife by altering food supplies, fragmenting habitats and polluting the environment. But a new global study argues that these physical factors are only part of the story. Societal factors, the researchers claim, especially those tied to religion, politics and war, also ...Read more

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was gaveled to order. The issues contested in the second-story courtroom of the Rhea County courthouse may seem long settled, but they still ...Read more

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted to review potential regulations that would require modifications to crab pots to discourage the unintentional capture of diamondback terrapins.

Diamondback terrapins, found all along the East Coast, are the only turtles found in brackish water, and problems begin when they move into areas with crab...Read more

The four private visitors to the International Space Station of the Axiom Space Ax-4 mission are headed back to Earth riding home on the newest SpaceX Crew Dragon making its first return home.

Former NASA astronaut and now Axiom Space employee Peggy Whitson climbed aboard Crew Dragon Grace early Monday along with customers Shubhanshu Shukla of ...Read more

For years, science fiction has promised a future filled with robots that can swim, crawl and fly like animals. In one research lab at Caltech, what once felt like distant imagination is becoming reality.

At first glance, they look like any other moon jellyfish — soft-bodied, translucent and ghostlike, as their bell-shaped bodies pulse gently ...Read more

An early Sunday morning SpaceX launch marked the 60th orbital mission from the Space Coast from all companies for the year, but also the 500th successful mission for the workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:04 a.m. carrying an Israeli communications satellite ...Read more

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — The nation’s spaceports can now take advantage of tax-free bonds for the first time after Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” last week, and the Space Coast looks to benefit.

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody on Friday detailed what it means for Florida from the headquarters of Space Florida, the state’s aerospace ...Read more

MIAMI — The invasive Burmese pythons plaguing Florida have an almost supernatural ability to absorb skeletons and scientists say they have finally found out how it’s done.

Turns out the intimidating predators have “previously unknown cell type” in the walls of their intestines that completely dissolves skeletons, according to a study ...Read more