I have a friend who calls me occasionally to come help him with various little things having to do with the technology at his house.

This week, one of his requests was to learn more about QR codes and how they work.

QR codes are those square barcodes that exist to help you navigate to various website addresses. You can read the QR code by ...Read more

Skullcandy (remember them) has announced the revival and launch of its world-renowned Aviator franchise with the Aviator 900 ANC headphones.

Initially launched in 2010, the Skullcandy Aviator line was well-known for its design, superior sound quality and many celebrity endorsements. Skullcandy doesn't want to call it a comeback; instead, as ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the wild, Florida’s manatees already face threats from cold stress, habitat loss, boat strikes and other human activities.

Now advocates worry about the potential peril that manatees may encounter from the Trump administration’s proposed changes to federal implementation of the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists ...Read more

From the recommendations on a store’s app to the prices flashing on digital shelf labels, artificial intelligence now shapes what shoppers see, what they buy and how products reach the shelves.

Until recently, most of it has happened behind the scenes. But retailers, including Target, are rolling out features that interact more directly with ...Read more

Everyone needs a plan for when the power goes out.

Portable power stations can help you keep the lights on and the coffee brewed in an emergency.

My mom lives outside Houston, and when there’s a hurricane in the Gulf, she wheels out her power station and plugs in her lamp and coffee maker and her weather radio.

Here are three power stations...Read more

A Native American tribe that was displaced by the establishment of Yosemite National Park is getting part of its lands back.

The land transfer, from Pacific Forest Trust, is considered a major milestone for Indigenous cultural and land restoration in California.

In addition, the move could lead to better management and control of wildfires in ...Read more

SpaceX carved out a sunset launch over the Space Coast on Tuesday with its latest Starlink flight.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-95 mission with 29 of the company’s internet satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 5:18 p.m.

This was the 25th flight for the first-stage booster, which...Read more

Veteran Bay Area biomedical CEO Paul Hastings had to lay off five dozen employees at his company earlier this year, thanks, he said, to what he described as the Trump administration’s attacks on universities, science and medical-research funding, he said.

Trump in an August executive order said federal grants had been insufficiently vetted, ...Read more

There’s a big new development going up in Mountain View along the edge of San Francisco Bay. But it’s not a tech company headquarters or a condo project. It’s for birds, and fish and hikers.

Workers are putting the finishing touches on a three-year effort to restore 435 acres of former industrial salt evaporation ponds to natural wetlands...Read more

The Department of the Air Force announced it had given the OK for SpaceX to move forward with its Starship and Super Heavy launch pad plans at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37.

A “record of decision” on the Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Canaveral site was posted to the Air Force’s website ...Read more

The Space Coast’s record rocket train of 2025 kept rolling with the first launch of December early Monday.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 with 29 of the company’s Starlink satellites lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 2:44 a.m. marking the first of at least five planned launches on the Space Coast in the next two weeks.

This ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A significant new court filing claims Facebook and Instagram owner Meta had a “17x” policy allowing sex traffickers to post content related to sexual solicitation or prostitution 16 times before their accounts were suspended on the 17th “strike.” The allegation is one of many in the filing claiming Meta chose profit ...Read more

With Donald Trump's election as president, the cryptocurrency community saw blue skies ahead.

The election sent the price of bitcoin to a record high, exceeding $75,000. After all, during the campaign Trump had vowed to make the U.S. the "crypto capital of the planet" and to create a "strategic reserve" of bitcoin. He and his family members ...Read more

Australia passed a landmark bill to overhaul the nation’s environmental laws after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government struck a deal with the left-wing minority Greens party.

Both houses of the country’s parliament passed the legislation, Environment Minister Murray Watt said in Canberra. It amends the Environment Protection and ...Read more

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule granting oil and gas operators more than a year in additional time to comply with mandates set by former President Joe Biden to replace leaky equipment and routinely monitor for escaped methane.

The Trump administration said this rule will affect hundreds of oil and gas sources ...Read more

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been fined and temporarily banned from Venice, Italy, after protesters dyed the Grand Canal green over the weekend.

Thunberg, 22, was with Extinction Rebellion, an environmental group behind many high-profile protests, when they poured dye into the waters that outline the historic city, according to The ...Read more

Dell Technologies Inc., HP Inc. and other tech companies are warning of potential memory-chip supply shortages in the coming year due to soaring demand from the build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Consumer electronics makers including Xiaomi Corp. have sounded the alarm about potential price increases, while others including ...Read more

Snapchat, an app whose disappearing messages and silly face filters made chatting with loved ones more casual, is close to a milestone that few social media platforms achieve: reaching 1 billion monthly users.

But Snap, the Santa Monica company behind the app, faces a crucial test. The 14-year-old tech company is still losing money and has seen...Read more