A few years ago, shoppers at major grocery and convenience stores started to notice something strange: The doors to the stores’ refrigerators and freezers were covered with digital screens. Actually, “notice” is putting it gently. With their eye-catching animations, pop-up ads, and noisy audio, the screens were imposing—and that’s when they worked correctly. When the […]
Speaker manufacturer Sonos is seeing some significant changes. Patrick Spence, the company’s chief executive officer (pictured above), is leaving the company after eight years in the job. Tom Conrad, the co-founder of Pandora and a Sonos board member, is stepping in as interim CEO starting today. Last year was complicated for the speaker manufacturer. The […]
As a series of massive fires continues to blaze through the Los Angeles area, blanketing neighborhoods with smoke and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes, air quality remains unhealthy throughout many parts of the county. Wildfire smoke is a mixture of water vapor, gases, and microscopic particles known as particulate matter. The smallest […]
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Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday. Officials probing the country’s deadliest aviation accident in almost three decades had hoped information from the so-called black boxes would shed light […]
On the morning of January 7, the first of Los Angeles’ vast wildfires broke out in a forested area near Topanga State Park on the northwest edge of the city. Conditions allowed the blaze to spread very quickly: 100 mph winds, very low humidity, and a landscape primed to burn after months without rainfall together […]
The federal government avoided a shutdown. Here are some notable takeaways from legislation that cleared the House and Senate this week.
A state of exceptional natural disaster has been declared in Mayotte as the French Indian Ocean territory reels from the devastation of Cyclone Chido. At least 31 people are reported by French officials to have died, while thousands are still missing after the cyclone tore through the small islands on Saturday. It the first time […]
Credit: Natural Hazards Research Australia Natural Hazards Research Australia and insurer Suncorp have today released a discussion paper highlighting the power of the environment in reducing the impact of disaster. The “Nature Positive Disaster Risk Reduction Solutions” discussion paper focuses on initiatives that enhance the biodiversity and ecology of the natural environment while providing social, […]
FIRST ON FOX: The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus is calling on Republican leaders to reject President Biden’s $98.4 billion disaster aid request. In an official position staked out by the GOP group on Wednesday evening, lawmakers are demanding a slimmed-down package covering what is “absolutely necessary,” to be offset with spending cuts elsewhere. “Congress should […]
