LAS VEGAS — A week after the Bureau of Land Management approved Nevada’s third lithium mine, environmentalists and a Western Shoshone group filed a lawsuit alleging that the agency rushed the environmental review process and violated federal laws.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday, is the latest in a long line of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A parking spot shuffle coming up this weekend more than 250 miles above Earth will mark a unique feat for a pair of NASA astronauts who will become the first to fly in both Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who flew up to the International Space Station in ...Read more

Search giant Google wants people to use its navigation app for more than just finding directions and avoiding traffic.

The tech giant is adding generative AI features to Google Maps so people can easily get recommendations for places to go and activities to do.

With 2 billion people using Google Maps every month, the company envisions people ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Blue Origin hauled the immense first stage booster for its upcoming debut launch of its New Glenn rocket to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday.

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp posted images to social media showing the 188-foot-long first stage with its seven BE-4 engines wrapped up in coverings with not-so-little Blue ...Read more

CHICAGO — Over the last decade, hundreds of reports have cropped up across the Chicago area of people’s horrifying encounters with a large, winged creature with glowing red eyes. Last month, Park Ridge residents looked out their windows to the creepy sight of a hairless, dog-sized creature crawling around the suburb. Earlier in the summer, ...Read more

Five NC State parks damaged by Hurricane Helene will reopen, at least partially, on Friday.

The soon-to-open parks are: Grandfather Mountain, Gorges, Crowders Mountain, Lake Norman and Rendezvous Mountain.

The state closed all North Carolina parks west of I-77 after Helene struck Sept. 26, noting that each would reopen after the damage could ...Read more

Miso Robotics' lab in downtown Pasadena, California, is filled with robots of the past and present.

There's Sippy, Chippy and Drippy. The star of the lab: an updated robot named Flippy that can fry French fries and chicken nuggets much faster than humans.

Miso Robotics has a lot riding on its ability to convince fast-food chains to incorporate...Read more

Bats are one of Halloween’s most famous symbols, but their real job is an important part of ecosystems and agriculture.

One William & Mary professor hopes the public can learn to appreciate the flying mammals year-round.

“Here in the US, there’s 47 species, and relatively speaking they’re all small, and they’re often hidden at night,...Read more

When Jung Yoonseok was looking for an assembly partner for his AI chip startup, he had his pick of almost any country in Asia, including his native South Korea. Instead, the Rebellions strategy chief opted for Taiwan because of what he sees as an unparalleled combination of talent, cost and speed.

“Taiwan is small, and Taipei is small, and in...Read more

The new head of Amazon’s cloud-computing division Matt Garman hopes to keep a lot of things at the company the same.

“The business is doing well…There’s not a desire to massively change anything,” Garman said in an interview with The Seattle Times last week, five months after he took the reins at Amazon Web Services, one of the tech ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX may have contributed to an overall Space Coast record with its previous launch last weekend, but a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday marked the most launches Elon Musk’s company has ever sent up from Florida in one year.

A Falcon 9 with 23 Starlink satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...Read more

Miso Robotics' lab in downtown Pasadena, California, is filled with robots of the past and present.

There's Sippy, Chippy and Drippy. The star of the lab: an updated robot named Flippy that can fry French fries and chicken nuggets much faster than humans.

Miso Robotics has a lot riding on its ability to convince fast-food chains to incorporate...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX may have contributed to an overall Space Coast record with its last launch over the last weekend, but a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral tonight will be the most launches Elon Musk’s company has ever sent up from Florida in one year.

A Falcon 9 with 23 Starlink satellites is aiming for liftoff from Cape Canaveral ...Read more

Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 3, 2024, and most of us will set our clocks back an hour. There is a long-running debate about the benefit of the time change, given how it disrupts humans’ circadian rhythms, causing short-term stress and fatigue.

Another risk accompanying the time change is on the roads: As ...Read more

As TVs across Florida broadcast the all-too-familiar images of a powerful hurricane headed for the coast in early October 2024, people whose homes had been damaged less than two weeks earlier by Hurricane Helene watched anxiously. Hurricane Milton was rapidly intensifying into a dangerous storm, fueled by the Gulf of Mexico’s record-...Read more

I’ve been working with a laptop as my main computer for more than a decade.

I used to travel quite a bit for work, and being able to take my main computer with me on the road was very helpful.

At my desk, I’d connect that laptop to a full-size keyboard and mouse and one or more monitors so I’d be more comfortable and productive. When I ...Read more

Nearly two years after ChatGPT brought generative AI to everyone’s fingertips, the buzzy technology remains a bright spot for Seattle-area companies.

But landing an AI job isn’t as easy as the hype would lead you to believe.

After years of rolling layoffs and cost-cutting efforts, Big Tech is reluctant to expand its head count, even when ...Read more

I see a certain kind of Facebook scam fairly often. It is easy to recognize.

They start out with a small sob story about someone who is moving to assisted living or downsizing, and they need help to sell a bunch of stuff cheap.

The posts usually have a few dozen pictures of the items for sale. The items usually include a fairly new pickup ...Read more

Soundcore by Anker's new Space One Pro wireless over-the-head headphones are rock-solid, producing clear and powerful sound. Their innovative foldable design makes them compact for storage.

The Bluetooth 5.3 headphones are loaded with features, but most important is the sound. Each side has advanced 40mm drivers made from Polyether ether ...Read more