Iceland volcano erupts weeks after thousands were evacuated from a town on Reykjanes Peninsula
A volcano erupted Monday night on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, turning the sky orange and putting the country's civil defense on high alert......»»
Americans will throw out 316 million pounds of food on Thanksgiving: How it fuels climate change
Each day, an army of trucks delivers tens of thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables to Mexico City's Central de Abasto, one of the world's largest wholesale food markets......»»
Microsoft Office AI training report is based on a misunderstanding, says the company
A tweet claiming that Microsoft Office uses the content of customer documents to train its AI systems raised a lot of eyebrows, but the tech giant says that it’s a simple misunderstanding. A Linux account with hundreds of thousands of followers.....»»
Why an Offline Nuclear Reactor Led to Thousands of Hospital Appointments Being Canceled
Radioisotopes are a vital resource for imaging patients’ organs and tumors—but these unstable elements also suffer from an unstable supply chain......»»
Here’s what the Samsung Galaxy A56 Will Look Like
It comes with a familiar-looking design element. The post Here’s what the Samsung Galaxy A56 Will Look Like appeared first on Phandroid. With 2025 only a number of weeks away, we’re once again getting closer to seeing Samsung&#.....»»
Black Friday shoppers targeted with thousands of fraudulent online stores
Building fake, fraudulent online stores has never been easier: fraudsters are registering domain names for a pittance, using the SHOPYY e-commerce platform to build the websites, and leveraging large language models (LLMs) to rewrite existing product.....»»
As baboons become bolder, Cape Town battles for solutions
On a sunny afternoon in Cape Town's seaside village of Simon's Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering on roofs, jumping between buildings and swinging on the gutters......»»
Genetic evidence points to distinct Viking settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland
Geneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by Vikings around the year 900 CE, and compared these to distributions of haplogroups in today's Scandinavia......»»
DOJ indicts Phillips 66 for Southern California refinery allegedly dumping industrial wastewater into sewer
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles voted to indict Texas-based oil refiner Phillips 66 for allegedly dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater from its Carson refinery into the Los Angeles County sewer system and then failing.....»»
Grab Apple"s 16-inch MacBook Pro M4 at record low $2,199 price
Apple's M4 Pro 16-inch MacBook Pro is on sale for $2,199, that's $300 off the price of a brand new notebook with its latest generation of Apple Silicon.Save $300 on this M4 MacBook ProIt's only been available a matter of weeks, but the 16-inch MacBoo.....»»
Horrifying medical device malfunction: Abdominal implant erupts from leg
Suspicious deaths, perforated sheep veins went unreported before device hit market. On May 7, 2011, Georgia resident Tonya Brand noticed a pain on the inside of her right thigh. A.....»»
River microbes near wastewater treatment plants express high levels of antibiotic resistance genes, study shows
Rivers and streams serve as critical connectors across vast geographical landscapes, trickling out of tucked-away headwaters and snaking thousands of miles toward oceans and deep seas. These waterways directly impact human and environmental health, a.....»»
Microsoft announces new Mac mini-sized desktop PC, but it only works online
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new product called “Windows 365 Link,” which is essentially a desktop PC similar in size to launched a few weeks ago. However, while the Mac mini is a full computer, Microsoft’s alternative runs exclusively in.....»»
Advancements in genomic research reveal alternative transcription initiation sites in thousands of soybean genes
Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA—that molecular blueprint for life—over 70 years ago. Today, scientists are still uncovering new ways to read it......»»
Google releases new Lens AI tools for Black Friday shopping
You might do most of your Black Friday and Christmas shopping online, but you’ll probably visit plenty of brick-and-mortar retail stores in the coming weeks. … The post Google releases new Lens AI tools for Black Friday shopping appeared.....»»
Improving hurricane modeling with physics-informed machine learning
Hurricanes, or tropical cyclones, can be devastating natural disasters, leveling entire cities and claiming hundreds or thousands of lives. A key aspect of their destructive potential is their unpredictability. Hurricanes are complex weather phenomen.....»»
Healthy "New Towns": Revitalizing neighborhoods in the wake of aging populations
Planned suburban residential neighborhoods in metropolitan areas known as new towns were initially developed in England. The new town movement spread from Europe to East Asia, such as to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In Japan alone, 2.....»»
In southern India"s tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests
Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed between hundreds of thousands of tea shrubs in southern India's Nilgiris region—a gateway to a time before colonization and the commercial growing o.....»»
Floods strike thousands of houses in northern Philippines
Floodwaters reaching more than four meters high swamped thousands of houses in the storm-battered northern Philippines on Tuesday after rivers overflowed following heavy rain and a dam release......»»
I own a PlayStation 5 Pro. It still hasn’t replaced my regular old PS5
After living with the PlayStation 5 Pro for a few weeks, I'm still using my regular old PS5 more than I expected to......»»
Physicists think they may know the key to unlocking time travel
Imagine a thread so thin it’s invisible to the naked eye but packed with the mass of thousands of stars. This isn’t science fiction—it’s the … The post Physicists think they may know the key to unlocking time travel appeared first on BG.....»»