Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain South Florida water managers approved a breeding program for an endangered Everglades sparrow that for decades has fluttered at the center of the debate over how to move water into parched marshes to restore the wetlands. The pilot program for the Cape Sable seaside sparrow will now likely change seasonal flood […]
President-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay the deadline for a potential TikTok ban, which is slated for the day before his inauguration. The court has agreed to hear TikTok’s challenge to the potential ban on an expedited schedule, but Trump told the justices that delaying the law until he returns to the White House…
By Alex Fox Photograph by Shane Gross Hawksbill sea turtles happily flap through the world’s tropical oceans with bellies full of glass-like fragments. Researchers examining the turtles’ digestive tracts would be wise to take care not to slice their hands on shards of the mineral silica that form the skeletons of sea sponges, a mainstay […]
At this point, any serious retro gamer knows that a bulky cathode ray tube (CRT) TV provides the most authenticlag-free experience for game consoles that predate the era of flat-panel HDTVs (i.e,. before the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 era). But modern gamers used to massive flat panel HD displays might balk at the display size of […]
The black poplar can be identified by its triangular leaves and spreading branches [CRT] Conservationists are calling for people to use cuttings from one of UK’s rarest native timber trees to help save the species. Cuttings of the black poplar have been cultivated at Bere Marsh Farm, near Shillingstone, Dorset. The farm, which is owned […]
“Pod Save America” host Jon Favreau said in a Tuesday episode of the podcast that the current president “seems to be disappearing from the public stage.” “So, the purpose of Trump’s appearance at Mar-a-Lago Monday morning was to announce a $100 billion investment from SoftBank, the hugely influential Japanese bank in American [artificial intelligence (AI)]…
If you’re looking to free up some space on your phone, one of the recommendations often put forward is to uninstall the apps you’ve not making much use of. You save on the space they’re taking up and the bandwidth required to keep them updated, and you stop them from collecting data on you as […]
So far, ByteDance has shown zero willingness to spin off TikTok in the US. The Chinese parent company seems to be banking on the Supreme Court or President-elect Donald Trump rescuing the app before it’s banned next month. The obvious names that would would buy TikTok if they could — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, […]
TikTok is officially on the chopping block, friends. Last Friday, a federal appeals court upheld a law that could result in the app being banned from operating within the United States next month. Even if President Joe Biden decides to extend that deadline an additional 90 days, TikTok is still on a pretty tight timeline […]
Elon Musk is hoping his ethically dubious generative AI toolGrok, will help stem the continuing exodus from his social media site X. Musk has launched a free version of the AI chatbot Grok to X users without Premium accounts. Digital market intelligence company Similarweb estimates that the number of daily active users on X has dropped […]
