New bushfire spread prediction model keeps firefighters ahead of the fire front
Eucalypts make up more than 70 per cent of Australia's forests and some of Australia's most extreme fire events, such as the 2009 Black Saturday fires and the most severe of the 2019/20 bushfires, occurred in this type of vegetation......»»
Best GoPro Prime Big Deal Days deals: Every model is on sale!
Get an action camera and accessories for much cheaper than usual by taking advantage of the available GoPro Prime Day deals. Hurry, because stocks are limited......»»
Apple marks MacBook and iPad models ‘vintage,’ adds iPods to ‘obsolete’ list
Today Apple has updated its lists of vintage and obsolete products with new additions. The latest vintage products are select MacBook and iPad models, while key iPods and a beloved iPhone model are now considered ‘obsolete.’ more….....»»
Save up to $150 with this Amazon Fire Max Tablet Bundle!
It's built for work and play. The post Save up to $150 with this Amazon Fire Max Tablet Bundle! appeared first on Phandroid. While most of Amazon’s Fire tablets are often geared towards buyers on a strict budget, its new Fire Max 11.....»»
Column: True champions of diversity stand up to bullies
Ford, and now Toyota, joined a list of companies that retreated on human rights after coming under fire from an online activist......»»
Amazon’s cheap deal on this forgotten Apple Watch makes it one to remember
The Apple Watch SE 2 isn't the latest model, but at the price it's being offered at in Amazon's Prime Big Deals Days 2024 promotion, you probably won't care......»»
Prime Big Deal Days Apple Watch deals 2024: SE, Ultra, and everything in between
Get the best price on whichever Apple Watch model you're after this year. Older watch = lower price......»»
Meet the shared responsibility model with new CIS resources
You can’t fulfill your end of the shared responsibility model if you don’t emphasize secure configurations. Depending on the cloud services you’re using, you’re responsible for configuring different things. Once you figure out.....»»
Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have led to the invention of "ant agriculture"
The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which was abundant at the time as plants and animals were.....»»
Using AI to figure out the chemical composition of paints used in classical paintings
A team of chemists and AI researchers at CNR, Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, has developed an AI model capable of determining the chemical composition of the paints used to make classical paintings......»»
Field notes: Life in the Eldorado National Forest after wildfire strikes
Charred trees punctuated the Eldorado National Forest like blackened skeletons of their former selves, victims of the Mosquito Fire. Two years earlier, in 2022, the Mosquito Fire started in Tahoe National Forest, moved north to the Eldorado and torch.....»»
TCL’s version of the The Frame TV just got a $700 price cut
The TCL NXTFRAME 4K QLED TV is a cheaper alternative to Samsung's The Frame TV, and its 85-inch model is on sale from Best Buy with a $700 discount right now......»»
The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is on sale — with some bonuses
The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is on sale for Prime Day. Order through Best Buy, you’ll get one month of FuboTV and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for free!.....»»
Capturing finer-scale topographic differences improves Earth system model capability to reproduce observations
Earth system models (ESMs), used in climate simulations and projections, typically use grids of 50–200 km resolution. These are considered relatively coarse with limited ability to resolve land surface variability......»»
"Red Rooms" review: Austere giallo for our tech-detached age
A Quebecois serial killer courtroom drama that out-Finchers Fincher. Fantasia 2023's Opening Night film reviewed. She's a fashion model! She's a computer genius! She's got dark obsessions that have her fixated upon a serial killer! In the 1960s.....»»
Everything you need to know about Amazon"s October Prime Day sale: Start time, the competition, and more
Amazon is hosting Prime Big Deal Days, its "October Prime Day" sale, on Oct. 8 and 9. Here's what you need to know about the event ahead of time. UPDATE: Oct. 4, 2024, 9:45 a.m. EDT This story has been updated with two new Fire tablet deals.....»»
This could explain why Apple made the iPhone 16 so good
Apple did something with the iPhone 16 line that surprised a lot of people. It made the base model option stronger than ever, providing fewer compelling reasons to upgrade to the iPhone 16 Pro. But recent reports about the next iPhone SE could explai.....»»
Strange “biotwang” ID’d as Bryde’s whale call
Multi-species machine-learning model can unlock insights into new whale species. In 2014, researchers monitoring acoustic recordings from the Mariana Archipelago picked up an unus.....»»
Human cases of H5N1 confirmed in California amid rapid dairy spread
The CDC confirmed two new bird flu cases, bringing the human tally to 17. Two California dairy farm workers who had contact with H5N1-infected cows have contracted an H5 avian inf.....»»
Why trolls, extremists, and others spread conspiracy theories they don’t believe
Some just want to promote conflict, cause chaos, or even just get attention. There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their rea.....»»
Making an RSV Vaccine Was Hard. Getting People to Take It Is Even Harder
New vaccines could help stem the spread of respiratory syncytial virus, but there are already huge inequities in access and uptake......»»