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Starving and stranded: Inside the desperate effort to save 24 wild horses
LOS ANGELES — The Sunday before last, Blake DeBok snowmobiled out to nine wild horses he was told were stranded in deep snow north of Mammoth Lakes.
“As soon as I saw them, it really confirmed that they were in a very serious situation,” the Bishop resident said.
Two horses were dead when he arrived, including a foal that appeared ...Read more
At one time, Illinois was a top oil producer. Today, that legacy is a $160M problem
CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ill. — Bill Rosborough and his son Jon stopped their pickup truck near a 40-acre cornfield and pointed to a white PVC pipe that rose 5 feet from the snow-covered ground on a windy December afternoon.
The Rosboroughs farm this land and placed the pipe to mark the spot where an oil well once stood.
“I don’t even know that ...Read more
'Water bankruptcy': UN scientists say much of the world is irreversibly depleting water
Dozens of the world’s major rivers are so heavily tapped, they often run dry before reaching the sea. More than half of all large lakes are shrinking, and most of the world’s major underground sources are declining irreversibly as agricultural pumping drains water that took centuries or even thousands of years to accumulate.
In a report ...Read more
Nvidia CEO says AI will create jobs for electricians and plumbers
As artificial intelligence threatens to upend job markets in countries around the world, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang brushed off longer term concerns and made the case that skilled vocational workers are seeing increasing demand now.
Plumbers, electricians and construction workers are going to be able to command “six-...Read more
Veteran astronaut Suni Williams, part of the Boeing Starliner saga, retires from NASA
For Suni Williams, 608 days in space was enough to call it a career.
The 60-year-old NASA astronaut who flew on three missions to the International Space Station, the most recent as part of the Crew Flight Test of Boeing’s Starliner, retired from the agency last month.
“Suni Williams has been a trailblazer in human spaceflight, shaping the...Read more
Tech review: These two chargers might be all you need
Phones used to ship with a lot of accessories that usually included headphones, a charging cable and a USB wall charger.
Today, phones ship with a charging cable and that’s about it, so you’re on your own for a wall charger. A lot of people will just go with whatever charger they happen to have tucked away in their junk drawer, but chances ...Read more
Colorado State University goes all in on AI, partnering with Microsoft to create RamGPT
Colorado State University has partnered with Microsoft to pilot a university-wide artificial intelligence system similar to ChatGPT that places the land-grant institution at the front of the pack in collaborations between higher education and AI companies.
Unlike ChatGPT, the custom-built CSU-GPT and its forthcoming companion RamGPT were ...Read more
Colorado confirms it won't release more wolves this winter after feds stopped deal with Canada
DENVER — Colorado will not release more wolves this winter to supplement its reintroduction program after federal officials stopped the planned relocation of wolves from Canada.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials confirmed Wednesday that they have no plans to release more wolves this season and are instead exploring options for next winter...Read more
California crypto startup moves to South Dakota as debate over proposed wealth tax heats up
California cryptocurrency startup BitGo has moved to South Dakota ahead of its initial public offering and amid a heated debate about a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires.
The company that had been based in Palo Alto is now based in Sioux Falls, S.D., according to a December filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
...Read more
Sound Advice: Adapter helps get the most out of headphones
Over the next few weeks I will have a good deal of headphone and audio coverage, which I have been working on for a while. Most of the headphones are open-back designs, as they are considered the ultimate for sound quality and serious listening. Starting us off is an excellent accessory that can be used to improve the sound of all your wired ...Read more
Adams County water district sues Denver over contamination from fire training facility
DENVER — An Adams County water district filed a lawsuit against Denver on Tuesday, alleging that foam from the city’s fire training facility has contaminated its water for decades.
The South Adams County Water and Sanitation District says the city’s Roslyn Fire Training Facility, near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, ...Read more
NASA head Isaacman tempers Artemis praise with ideas on program's future
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Even as NASA celebrated the rollout of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II over the weekend, NASA’s new administrator Jared Isaacman made sure to put an asterisk on the program’s future.
“The architecture you see behind us here with SLS and the Orion spacecraft is just the ...Read more
Gadgets: New health smartwatch
Link2Care, a next‑generation preventive‑health wearable platform, announced the United States release of its Watch2Care Vital Smartwatch recently at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The Watch2Care Vital is touted in its press release as the first smartwatch uniting 3,000 Years of traditional Chinese medicine with over 9 million...Read more
Jim Rossman: Are you really unsubscribed?
We all get a lot of emails, and every once in a while, it feels good to purge the inbox and unsubscribe from the ones that are getting on our nerves.
In the United States, it is a federal law that marketing emails must include an “unsubscribe” link.
A lot of people I know are afraid to click on them, for fear of getting signed up for ...Read more
Video games 2026: 5 projects that we’re excited to play
One game will define the upcoming year, and the hype surrounding it is so meteoric that it will likely dwarf anything around it. After several delays, “Grand Theft Auto VI” is scheduled to arrive Nov. 19 with as much hoopla as “The Phantom Menace” did in 1999.
It’s been more than a decade since the release of the previous entry in ...Read more
Microsoft CEO warns AI needs to spread beyond Big Tech to avoid bubble
As tech companies spend billions on artificial intelligence data centers and computer chips, fears of an AI bubble held privately by Wall Street traders and some Big Tech titans are beginning to pop into public view.
Speaking to the world’s economic elite Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tossed out his 2 cents.
AI ...Read more
Virginia will rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Spanberger says
NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia will rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the multistate coalition that aims to reduce the use of fossil fuels as an energy source, Gov. Abigail Spanberger told lawmakers Monday.
“This is about cost savings,” she said in an address to the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate. “RGGI generated hundreds ...Read more
Construction of Asian carp barrier in Illinois hits another snag
WASHINGTON — Nine months ago, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum instructing his administration to "achieve maximum speed and efficiency" in moving to block invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes.
But the key project in Illinois to erect barriers that would prevent the fish from infiltrating Lake Michigan has ...Read more
First new fossils in more than 100 years discovered at Colorado's Dinosaur National Monument
DENVER — Parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first discovery at the monument in more than 100 years, according to the National Park Service.
Monument staff discovered the fossils — which likely belong to the Diplodocus, a large, long-necked dinosaur — on Sept. 16 near ...Read more
Oldest astronaut Buzz Aldrin turns 96 as new moon astronauts share Apollo inspirations
Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living moonwalkers and the oldest remaining astronaut still making trips around the sun.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. followed Neil Armstrong onto the lunar surfaces as part of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 as a 39-year-old. He was born ...Read more
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- 'Water bankruptcy': UN scientists say much of the world is irreversibly depleting water
- Tech review: These two chargers might be all you need
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- Nvidia CEO says AI will create jobs for electricians and plumbers







