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On August 6th, 1806, Francis II abdicated, ending the Holy Roman Empire.

A 19-year-old fisherman was bitten on the leg by a beaver in Cunningham Falls State Park in Frederick County on Wednesday morning, a Maryland Department of Natural Resources spokesperson said.

This is the second beaver ...Read more

The U.S. government’s top information security official warned that computer systems nationwide need to bolster their defenses to meet the growing threat of cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence.

During ...Read more

SEATTLE -- Jeff Bezos filed plans Monday to sell nearly $4.1 billion in Amazon stock as shares hit a new all-time high.

Since stepping down as Amazon’s CEO in 2021, the company’s founder has been selling off tens of ...Read more

MIAMI — It’s approaching the peak of hurricane season for South Florida, but the Atlantic is dead quiet.

This great news is likely to continue, according to an updated hurricane season prediction released Wednesday by...Read more

Part of a SpaceX rocket, about the size of a school bus, is believed to have collided with the moon, independent scientists said Wednesday.

The rocket carried two lunar landers into space earlier this year, one for NASA ...Read more

Electronic Arts is now a private company, owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake and Affinity Partners.

The $55 billion acquisition of the gaming giant was first announced last September, ...Read more

America’s artificial intelligence titans recently banded together to urge the government not to restrict so-called open-weight AI models, or those that are publicly available for users to freely download and run on their...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Looking for some marmot content? Try OnlyFans or, rather, OnlyMarms.

Researchers at a UCLA-affiliated marmot research lab launched an OnlyFans account to post videos of marmots captured in the wild as a way...Read more

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For millennia, the Wounaan people, who live in parts of what is now Panama and Colombia, have hewn and sculpted various woods. Cocobolo rosewood, Dalbergia retusa, is particularly favored for ...Read more

Severe storms, heat waves and wildfires can shut down the social life of a community, flooding out festivals, canceling community events and keeping people indoors.

They’re also evidence of how climate change ...Read more

A predawn launch by SpaceX on the Space Coast marked the 50th from Florida in 2026.

A Falcon 9 rocket a mission to deploy the BlueBird 11, 12 and 13 satellites for AST SpaceMobile took flight from Cape Canaveral Space ...Read more

The year was 1948. All American adults were happily married and spoke perfectly proper English, never straying from traditional usage or grammatical proscriptions. Or at least that's what everyone thought.

Then along ...Read more

It’s not a stretch to say that 2001’s “Halo: Combat Evolved” was a game-changer. A launch title for the original Xbox developed by Bellevue-based Bungie and published by Redmond-based Microsoft Game Studios, “...Read more

Sony’s decision to stop physical disc production caused an uproar among gamers. It marks a sea change for the industry as PlayStation shifts to an all-digital future. For collectors, it’s a devastating end. Physical ...Read more

The Ibreo 4-in-1 Foot 3 mini foot massager is heaven -- so much so that I’m sitting at my desk writing this column as my feet are being massaged.

That's what you get with the spa-grade portable mini foot massager that...Read more

We’ve all been there.

You’re out at the mall or shopping at the grocery store or at a hotel and your phone offers to join an open Wi-Fi network.

Should you do it? Is public Wi-Fi safe to use?

Yes…and no.

Public...Read more

In the final season of HBO’s Hacks," Hannah Einbinder’s character, Ava, goes ballistic on an AI developer. When her boss and best friend, Deborah, played by Jean Smart, contemplates inputting a career’s worth of ...Read more

If you build a house in the United States today, there’s a good chance you’ll be living under the dictates of a neighborhood homeowners association. Roughly two out of every three new homes are in an HOA, as are a ...Read more