In the crowded headphone market, aside from great sound, products often need another feature to stand out. And that's exactly what the MorningBlues wireless headphones VWS X1 have with their unique, fashionable and personalized detachable 2.2-inch OLED touchscreens on each earcup.

They are promoted by MorningBlues as the world’s first ...Read more

“Resident Evil” has introduced several heroes across its 30-year history, but its main villain has lived in the shadows. It’s not Albert Wesker, but rather, the man pulling the strings behind the evil corporation Umbrella — Lord Oswell Spencer.

The billionaire virologist has his fingerprints all over the series. He built the zombie-...Read more

BERLIN — "Dragon Quest" is one of the most successful role-playing series around, particularly in Japan. It's been around for almost 40 years.

Fans of the video game have been waiting for a new title since it was announced back in 2021.

But instead, Square Enix has released a remake of "Dragon Quest VII."

It is significantly streamlined ...Read more

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Charlie Snodgrass used to be a gig driver, delivering burritos and pad Thai around Los Angeles. Today, he handles the robots that do his old job.

He is one of the first of a new class of workers, a robot wrangler paid to care for and train AI-powered bots as they learn to work in the real world.

At 5:45 a.m., in a small warehouse in West ...Read more

With desert cities like Phoenix and Tucson bracing for their allotments of Colorado River water to be slashed dramatically, San Diego County’s water agency could for the first time sell some of its water to other states by drawing on its ample supplies from the nation’s largest desalination plant.

The San Diego County Water Authority’s ...Read more

NASA announced it had found the source of a helium flow blockage that forced it to roll the Artemis II rocket back from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and delay its lunar fly-by mission until at least April.

In an update to its website Tuesday, NASA stated that technicians had gained access to the launch vehicle stage adapter next to ...Read more

When Big Bear’s celebrity bald eagle couple’s eggs were eaten by ravens in late January, they didn’t grieve alone.

Thousands had watched Jackie and Shadow on livestream, as they meticulously arranged sticks in their nest high in a Jeffrey pine and nibbled each other’s feathers in preparation for laying. All seemed just dandy until both...Read more

China’s next five-year plan set to be published this week will help dictate how fast the top polluter can cut greenhouse gas emissions and the extent of new support for clean technology sectors, policy settings that are critical to determining the world’s success in tackling climate change.

Policymakers gathering in Beijing from March 5 for...Read more

United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this year, but won’t be launching any national security missions until it solves a recurring issue of booster nozzles burning off the rocket on launch.

While the Vulcan’s main first stage was able to course correct and get its Space Force payload to space on the Feb...Read more

The rolling robots that deliver groceries and hot meals across Los Angeles are getting an upgrade.

Coco Robotics, a UCLA-born startup that's deployed more than 1,000 bots across the country, unveiled its next-generation machines on Thursday.

The new robots are bigger, tougher and better equipped for autonomy than their predecessors. The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Irked residents across Southern California have recently complained to their vector control districts about an onslaught of mosquito activity, many sporting ankle bites to prove it. Local mosquito experts blame the unseasonable weather pattern and a thriving invasive species for the surge in itchy bites.

Vector control districts...Read more

Fifty-six years ago, President Richard Nixon sent a letter to Congress proposing the formation of a new federal regulator: the Environmental Protection Agency. Back then, big city skylines were shrouded in smog, chemicals and waste had spoiled the nation’s waterways, and Americans across the political spectrum recognized the need to safeguard ...Read more

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the Environmental Protection Agency, can be found in Houston, Texas, the city where my colleagues and I live and work.

Hazardous contaminants...Read more

Fintech company Block said Thursday that it's cutting more than 4,000 workers or nearly half of its workforce as artificial intelligence disrupts the way people work.

The Oakland parent company of payment services Square and Cash App saw its stock surge by more than 23% in after-hours trading after making the layoff announcement.

Jack Dorsey, ...Read more

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a major overhaul of the agency’s Artemis mission plans on Friday, adding an extra mission next year to help the program better prepare for a moon landing in 2028.

And less than a year after nearly one-fifth of NASA’s workforce took a voluntary departure amid government-wide cuts, Isaacman now ...Read more

There’s still a month left, but this winter in California so far can be summed up in two words: roller coaster.

It began so dry that Lake Tahoe ski resorts couldn’t open for their usual Thanksgiving kickoff. Then 10 feet of snow fell around Christmas, saving ski season and bringing totals up to historic averages. But five weeks of warm, dry...Read more

A week after the NASA Administrator promised consequences for the agency’s mishandling of the Boeing Starliner saga, two key leaders of its Commercial Crew Program are being replaced.

NASA said that Ken Bowersox, who announced his retirement Wednesday, will be stepping down from his role as associate administrator of Space Operations Mission ...Read more

As more than 100 million people watched the Super Bowl, the battle for the future of artificial intelligence spilled out into a massive public arena.

In a series of viral commercials, AI upstart Anthropic broadcast to football fans that they should avoid AI with ads. The commercial was obviously targeting OpenAI, which plans to add ads to ...Read more

In the search for more, new and cleaner sources of energy, a largely untapped resource is emerging: natural hydrogen.

Unlike hydrogen produced from industrial processes, natural hydrogen forms through geological reactions that occur normally within the Earth’s crust, meaning it costs nothing to make – though it costs some amount ...Read more