2025-01-10

Apple's AirPods Pro 2 are on sale for the first time this year

Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 earbuds are on sale for $180 via Amazon. This is the first serious discount of the year and represents a savings of 28 percent. It's not a record-low, but it’s darn clos [...]

2025-01-10

Everyone agrees: 2024 the hottest year since the thermometer was invented

An exceptionally hot outlier, 2024 means the streak of hottest years goes to 11. [...]

2025-01-10

Climate Change in 2024 Hit a Warming Mark Scientists Hoped We Would Avoid

The rise above preindustrial temperatures marks the hottest year on Earth since records began in 1850. [...]

2025-01-10

The Tide Could Finally Be Turning Against the LA Fires

With wind speeds falling, firefighting reinforcements arriving from out of state, and more water sources online, authorities now have a critical window to take control of the situation. [...]

2025-01-09

Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations

Set to be killed by Trump, the rules mostly lock in existing trends. [...]

2025-01-09

Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia

This recently mapped Bronze Age fortress is just one among hundreds. [...]

2025-01-09

LLM-generated questions differ from human questions, study finds

Researchers from UC Berkeley, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah City for Science and Technology, and the University of Washington took a close look at how large language models (LLMs) create questions [...]

2025-01-09

The Devastating Los Angeles Fires in Pictures

More than 130,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, with the fires—which are still uncontained—having been declared a major disaster by President Biden. [...]

2025-01-09

The Los Angeles Fires Will Put California’s New Insurance Rules to the Test

The state’s insurance industry was reformed in late 2024 to promote coverage in disaster-prone areas. Tens of billions in fire damage will stress-test the new regime. [...]