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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.
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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
Tijuana wastewater pipe repairs completed in 3 days, ending river discharge
SAN DIEGO — Repairs to a collapsed wastewater pipe in Tijuana have been completed, with flows to the Tijuana River now stopped, the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission announced Monday.
The Insurgentes Collector, part of the larger Tijuana Wastewater system, collapsed the night of Jan. 15, diverting about 11.5 million gallons per...Read more
As EPA ponders Clean Water Act, activists say business eclipsing environment
The long-term health of the ocean off the coast of Southern California, and the health of the region’s freshwater streams and rivers and lakes, soon could hinge on the Trump administration’s definition of a single word: ditch.
The Environmental Protection Agency is in the midst of sorting out which of the “waters of the United States,” ...Read more
Michigan airports awarded grants to respond to PFAS pollution
Airports across Michigan were awarded state grants to help cover the costs of responding to PFAS, a class of man-made pollutants common in fire suppression foam used at airports, the state's environmental department announced Friday.
Airport officials can use the money to test for PFAS, monitor the pollution, control the pollution, clean ...Read more
Trump is winning the fight against offshore wind despite court losses
President Donald Trump’s campaign against offshore wind power in the U.S. sustained major setbacks last week when three different judges blocked enforcement of a government ban and allowed projects in New York, Rhode Island and Virginia to resume construction. And two others may win similar decisions soon.
But Trump may already have won his ...Read more
Volunteers kayak through San Diego River Estuary to pick up trash and protect endangered wildlife
SAN DIEGO — Dozens of kayakers lined up beneath the West Mission Bay Drive Bridge on a clear, chilly Saturday morning, preparing to paddle through the San Diego River Estuary’s shallow reeds in search of trash threatening one of the region’s most important wildlife habitats.
More than 200 volunteers, clad in gloves and lifejackets, ...Read more
NASA's Artemis II rocket rolls to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Humanity’s return to the moon began Saturday morning before dawn at less than 1 mph.
That was the top speed NASA’s rocket for the Artemis II mission was able to hit during its ride atop the massive crawler that inched out of Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building on its way Launch Pad 39-B.
It was a 4-...Read more
