A report on the Boeing Starliner mission that left two astronauts behind on the International Space Station in 2024 has pushed NASA to reclassify the incident in the same category as the Space Shuttle Columbia and Challenger disasters.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency now considers the mission a “Type A mishap,” which means...Read more

NASA is putting the botched 2024 test flight of the Starliner capsule in the same category of disaster as the Challenger and Columbia shuttle accidents, underscoring the dramatic failures that kept a pair of astronauts stuck in space for nine months.

The agency labeled the mission a “Type A” mishap in a scathing report, expected to be ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — An Ybor business owner closed her yoga studio repeatedly from worries over moldy, waterlogged walls.

A Pinellas woman’s home flooded in one hurricane, and a tree crushed her car in another.

A Tampa student feared her insulin would become ineffective in extreme, hot temperatures.

On Wednesday night, one after another, Tampa ...Read more

Minnesota is struggling to achieve its climate goals despite decades of falling greenhouse gas emissions, newly released state data shows.

State law requires Minnesota’s electric utilities to reduce their carbon emissions to zero by 2040. Minnesota lawmakers also set a series of statutory goals to cut overall emissions compared to the state�...Read more

It will be business as usual for SpaceX when it tries to send up a rocket from the Space Coast Thursday night, but not so much for when the rocket comes back down.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-36 mission with 29 Starlink satellites is aiming for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:41 p.m. near the ...Read more

At least 1,100 dead or sick birds, mostly Canada geese, have been reported across New Jersey in an outbreak that started on Valentine’s Day, according to state officials.

At least 50 geese have died at Alcyon Lake in Pitman, Gloucester County. Officials have closed the lake and the adjoining Betty Park out of precaution.

The fish and ...Read more

A 153-acre property in the Santa Cruz Mountains that gained national notoriety after its former owner piled up more than 50 junk cars, old school buses, boats, rusting engine parts and mountains of other debris and refused authorities’ efforts to remove the mess is now part of one of California’s most storied state parks.

The wooded ...Read more

NASA is set to begin fueling 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant on the Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday as its moved ahead with a test countdown of the Artemis II mission.

A live stream of the rocket at KSC’s Launch Pad 39-B began before 10 a.m. as teams, after getting the green light from Artemis launch ...Read more

The internet occasionally erupts in horror at disturbing images of wildlife: deer with freakish black bubbles all over their faces and bodies, sore-ridden squirrels, horn-growing rabbits.

As a society, we tend to hold romanticized notions about life in the wild. We picture these rabbits nuzzling with their babies, these squirrels munching on ...Read more

I love watching the evolution of gadgets.

I’ve been around long enough to remember a time before we had a lot of the gadgets we take for granted today, like smartphones or laptops and today’s topic, dash cams.

Today we are looking at two dash cams, the 4K A810S from 70mai and A329S from VIOFO.

Both offer 4K recording and tons of other ...Read more

A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and guides near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada as an intense storm brought heavy, wet snow to the region on Feb. 17, 2026. Six of the skiers were rescued, but eight others didn’t survive and another was missing. The region had been under an avalanche warning that was rated ...Read more

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc. are adding music-focused generative artificial intelligence features to their core consumer apps, underscoring how advanced AI tools are moving into mainstream use.

Google’s Gemini AI assistant can now create 30-second music tracks based on text, photos or video uploaded by users using Google DeepMind�...Read more

OpenAI has been temporarily blocked from using the word "Cameo" in a product that allows people to generate videos based on prompts amid a trademark dispute.

Last year, the celebrity video platform Cameo sued OpenAI, alleging that the San Francisco company infringed its trademark. People use Cameo to purchase personalized videos of celebrities ...Read more

American families are feeling the pinch of rising electricity prices. In the past five years alone, the generation portion of the standard service residential electric bill in Columbus, Ohio, has increased by 110%. This is one data point in a national trend.

Energy affordability is quickly shaping up to be a key election issue at all ...Read more

BERLIN — The location where "The Berlin Apartment" is set is both fictional and real.

We see that in the large mural opposite the apartment. "Astronaut Cosmonaut" is a work of art that really exists, though in real life, you can find it on completely different buildings to the ones that players see in this game.

Nevertheless, the view from...Read more

We use Amazon’s Echo device at my house, mainly for voice control of our smart home devices like lights.

Recently, Amazon introduced their new and improved Alexa service called Alexa+, which is designed to be more conversational and have expanded capabilities.

Alexa+ is included with certain new Echo devices and for Amazon Prime ...Read more

At first glance, Fosi Audio’s ZH3 desktop HiFi DAC/headphone amp/preamp seems built for advanced users. To an extent, it is. Still, you don’t have to be an audiophile to want great sound. The ZH3 is designed to make premium listening accessible to all. It lets everyday listeners use advanced sound features without the usual complexity.

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The people of Orange Cove in Fresno County could soon be an unwilling part of an experiment in dangerous, expensive utility boondoggles. And if California’s gas companies get their way, families statewide will be forced to pay higher energy bills, breathe more indoor air pollution and bear greater safety risks.

Southern California Gas Co. ...Read more

As the effects of climate change intensify, it has become standard practice for major corporations to pledge their support for environmental sustainability. This is as it should be, because genuine corporate engagement is essential to the success of our collective response — and it makes good business sense.

Sempra, one of California’s ...Read more