I can remember testing my first robot vacuum. It was amazing to watch, and I really thought we were living in the future.

I soon learned it didn’t have much in the way of onboard intelligence and it just ping ponged around the room until it decided it must have covered everything or it needed a battery recharge.

My, how times have changed.

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Blue Origin’s time away from the launch pad didn’t last long despite its New Glenn rocket getting grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration in April.

Last week, the FAA cleared New Glenn to return to flight after accepting results and proposed corrective actions to avoid the problem that arose during the NG-3 mission, which saw its ...Read more

Extreme weather is posing a growing threat to the power supplies Americans rely on.

In 2021, a fierce winter storm left millions of Texans without electricity and water for days. Hurricane Helene in 2024 knocked out power to about 5 million customers across the U.S. Southeast.

Beyond the immediate human and economic toll, ...Read more

LONDON — A British online safety monitoring organization has found that children are able to slip by proof-of-age verification on some platforms by pulling faces or even scribbling mustaches on themselves.

Around half the controls covered in the survey were easy to get around, according to Internet Matters, which found that children showed ...Read more

This week we tackle another reader question, “I’m still confused and often aren’t sure whether or not to allow my firewall to disarm. And does it reinstate alone or what should I do next?”

A firewall is a security system that monitors your computer’s network traffic and decides what to allow or block based on rules.

Generally, you ...Read more

Father’s Day is right around the corner, and this is the perfect time to find a gift that reflects your dad’s personality, hobbies or everyday needs. If you’re drawing a blank, here are some great suggestions.

The ibreo N5 mini S3 Neck and Shoulder Massager ($63.99) is a must-have, producing endless hours of relaxation. There is no ...Read more

The Japanese concept of “kaizen” could be used to describe the evolution of the “Forza Horizon” franchise. It’s a series that began with a simple concept. Playground Games wanted to build an open-world racer that was truer to life than its peers using, the ForzaTech engine.

It’s a game that offered the realism of a sim but livened...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- It’s still the earliest days of artificial intelligence usage and understanding, yet AI companies are gobbling capital like a hippo’s maw and soaring in market valuation.

Everyone in business these days seems to be searching for a tale from history to meaningfully describe the growing importance of AI. I personally think it ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — As San Diego County races to meet green energy targets, sprawling developments are transforming backcountry communities — and residents of those areas want a voice in the process before their homes are reshaped by solar, wind and battery storage projects.

Two projects in the Sonoran Desert not far from the U.S.-Mexico border ...Read more

Questioning apocalyptic climate forecasts is now the conventional wisdom.

For years, radical climate activists have painted a bleak view of the future. Most scientists believe that burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases, which remain in the atmosphere, and that these gases trap additional heat, which warms the planet. This has led to ...Read more

SEATTLE — Advocates with the Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition have raised $32,000 to prevent the logging of 2 acres west of Port Angeles.

The deal, which took place without input from the Department of Natural Resources, which owns the land, appears to be the first of its kind. Public donations have effectively saved trees, that had already ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is planning to distribute plutonium left over from Cold War-era weapons to commercial nuclear developers as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to accelerate the rollout of new reactors.

The Department of Energy has selected Oklo Inc. and four other firms for advanced negotiations to participate in the Surplus ...Read more

NASA announced which two companies would be tasked to build lunar rovers for its future moon base — as well as the company that will fly them there — among other plans during an event from its Washington headquarters Tuesday.

Blue Origin’s uncrewed Blue Moon MK1 lander, which will launch from Cape Canaveral atop a New Glenn rocket, was ...Read more

The end of May isn’t just for movie studios to release their blockbusters. A video game publisher is also releasing a huge franchise on Wednesday, May 27. IO Interactive and Amazon MGM Studios are launching “007 First Light,” a new James Bond game on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and PC.

To mark the occasion, the team released the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Advocacy coalition EyesOnOpenAI is asking Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate a recent contract between OpenAI and semiconductor company Cerebras Systems that the group says bolsters its earlier arguments that OpenAI has abandoned its philanthropic mission.

EyesOnOpenAI, a coalition of AI-skeptical groups, previously...Read more

NASA had a big – and little – problem. For a small satellite, the agency needed a tiny antenna, with very specific communication capabilities and very strict limits on size and weight. The agency gave the problem to a design team adept at simulating the way natural selection engineers solutions.

Design using natural selection is ...Read more

About two-thirds of the U.S. is in some stage of drought in late spring 2026, yet at the same time the country has been seeing more intense downpours. It might seem contradictory, but both are symptoms of rising global temperatures.

The reason has to do with the water cycle.

Water influences every aspect of our lives through a...Read more

Along the California coast, from Bodega Bay to Morro Bay, commercial fishing boats have started pulling in salmon for the first time in three years, and local salmon are once again appearing on restaurant menus and in seafood markets across the state.

California’s commercial ocean salmon fishery began reopening in May 2026 for the ...Read more

We love space, but not as an abstraction. For my twin sons, it is a tradition. Their birthday themes have evolved from “Two the Moon” for their second birthday, featured on NASA.gov, to “From Space to the Farm,” with the boys in those iconic orange astronaut suits, standing in a cornfield. In the year of Inspiration4, we went all in with...Read more