I had an email exchange with a reader yesterday.

He wrote, “I recently bought a pair of Dayton speakers for my desktop. They connect via Bluetooth, which is fine, but every time Bluetooth connects/disconnects from the speakers, it makes a LOUD ding-dong alert sound, which I find rather annoying. I can't find anything online about adjusting ...Read more

LONDON — Playing Tetris could help reduce distressing memories of trauma, a study has found.

Health workers who played the classic computer game as part of their treatment experienced fewer flashbacks, researchers said.

Experts are now hoping to test the method, which they describe as “accessible, scalable and adaptable," on a larger ...Read more

Being the owners of two dogs who shed, we wage a daily battle against the fur. We keep up with it, but having a vacuum like the new Ultenic U15 smart cordless to test instantly made life easier.

The Ultenic U15 is lightweight, doesn’t take up much closet space, and is easy to move around. It stands upright; often this style is referred to ...Read more

You can’t talk about Goichi Suda without mentioning Travis Touchdown, the protagonist of the “No More Heroes” series. The bombastic otaku has always been “the representative character of Grasshopper Manufacture, like a mascot in a way,” according to the video game developer.

But after nearly 20 years of working on Travis stories, ...Read more

Every Game Developers Conference, Nintendo highlights projects from several independent studios through its Nintendo Partner Preview. The smorgasborg of games shows upcoming projects on their systems. They’re not all exclusives, but they are proof that indie studios care about being on the company’s platforms.

The surprising part of the ...Read more

Cute but cantankerous, koalas are making a surprising recovery from a genetic bottleneck, with their once most-threatened populations now displaying a surprising diversity.

“It still looks like they’re in bad shape, but if you dig further, we’re actually finding that there’s recovery from the bottleneck,” study co-author Collin Ahrens...Read more

MIAMI and PALM BEACH, Florida — Last December, a large coterie of Silicon Valley billionaires descended upon Miami to attend Art Basel, the ritzy, contemporary art fair that marks the end of the moneyed set’s yearly social calendar.

Much of the buzz surrounded the spectacle of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, among the world’s richest men,...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration selected eight proposals — including two from Northern California startups — to participate in a nationwide pilot program that will determine if air taxis can be used as a short-range alternative in major metropolitan areas.

Archer Aviation CEO Adam Goldstein hailed the initiative as the flying car ...Read more

If you spend your workdays at a computer, you start to notice things.

You’ll notice if your monitor is flickering, or if the text is too big or too small to read comfortably.

You’ll also being to notice if your chair is comfortable and work to adjust it, so your back and arms don’t get tired.

The next thing you’ll notice is how your ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California legislators on Tuesday voiced their support for Senate Bill 872 — a bill aimed at reinforcing Delta levees and the State Water Project by directing $300 million annually to the state’s water infrastructure upgrades and repairs.

The news conference followed the introduction of the bill in January month by ...Read more

Before launching his war on Iran, President Donald Trump said his most important goal was that Iran would “never have a nuclear weapon.” Yet it is not clear what, if anything, his administration has planned for dealing with Iran’s stock of enriched uranium that could be used to make nuclear bombs – or its remaining deeply buried ...Read more

MIAMI — Instead of whizzing through the open marsh of the Everglades like he usually does, Tristan Tigertail steers his airboat alongside the man-made canal along Tamiami Trail.

On one side, cars speed past on the two-lane road that bisects the southern part of the state. A telecommunications tower looms above the landscape. On the other, ...Read more

DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency this month sent six proposed permits to regulate air pollution from oil and gas wells on the Western Slope back to Colorado regulators because the state did not require adequate emissions monitoring at the sites.

The partial rejection of the Title V air permits, which regulate how much pollution ...Read more

DENVER — A consortium of universities filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the Trump administration’s planned dismantling of Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, alleging that the planned reorganization violates the Constitution and federal law.

The plaintiff is the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a nonprofit ...Read more

Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 15, 2026, in Palo Alto, California, was a scientific crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental collapse made headlines and sparked controversy for decades.

Sometimes called a “prophet of doom” by his detractors, Ehrlich was ...Read more

The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries in response, are damaging more than buildings – they are sending toxic debris into the air in cities that are home to millions of people.

Military strikes have hit Iran’s missile stockpiles, nuclear ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. will pay as much as $27 billion over the next five years for access to artificial intelligence infrastructure from cloud provider Nebius Group NV as it spends aggressively to compete with the industry’s top frontier models.

Nebius, a so-called neocloud that operates data centers and has a strategic partnership with Nvidia ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in more than a decade, offshore oil is again flowing through a controversial network of pipelines that run from California's Central Coast to Kern County.

Following an executive order from President Donald Trump last week, Sable Offshore Corp. announced Monday that it resumed oil flow through pipelines that ...Read more

New research shows the chemicals we use to kill pests, heal our bodies and package our foods are spread throughout the ocean, intermingling with the microorganisms that feed marine life. They’ve reached even the most distant and remote places on the planet.

In a new study, Daniel Petras, a biochemist at the University of California, Riverside...Read more