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Blue Origin hauls massive New Glenn 1st stage to launch site with hot fire up next
ORLANDO, Fla. — Blue Origin hauled the immense first stage booster for its upcoming debut launch of its New Glenn rocket to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp posted images to ...Read more
Urban legends or urban wildlife? Creepy creature sightings might just be thriving Chicago animals
CHICAGO — Over the last decade, hundreds of reports have cropped up across the Chicago area of people’s horrifying encounters with a large, winged creature with glowing red eyes. Last month, Park Ridge residents looked...Read more
Other Notable Events for October 31
On this date in history:
In 1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation by nailing a proclamation -- the 95 theses -- to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany.
In 1864, Nevada was ...Read more
Notable Birthdays for October 31
Those born on this date include:
- Artist Jan Vermeer in 1632
- Pope Clement XIV in 1705
- poet John Keats in 1795
- Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low in 1860
- Gen. Chiang Kai-shek,...Read more
These 5 North Carolina state parks are reopening after Hurricane Helene. But many are still closed
Five NC State parks damaged by Hurricane Helene will reopen, at least partially, on Friday.
The soon-to-open parks are: Grandfather Mountain, Gorges, Crowders Mountain, Lake Norman and Rendezvous Mountain.
The state ...Read more
Today's Word "virtu"
virtu \vuhr-TOO; vir-\ (noun) - 1 : love of or taste for fine objects of art. 2 : Productions of art (especially fine antiques). 3 : Artistic quality.
'In the latter case, the new emblem held no personality or virtu until...Read more
This Day in History, October 31
On October 31st, 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" was first published.
The Spookyville Potion Hunt
It is Halloween down in SpookyVille and the residents are getting ready to do their annual potion finding contest. In this contest, each of 5 people are assigned an ingredient of the special potion that they are to find. The first one back with their ingredient is the winner. With the clues listed can you figure out who, what kind of monster they are, which ingredient they were assigned, and how long it took them to find it?
Names: Mr. Jack,...
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Robots can make your fries, salads and guacamole. Is this the future of fast food?
Miso Robotics' lab in downtown Pasadena, California, is filled with robots of the past and present.
There's Sippy, Chippy and Drippy. The star of the lab: an updated robot named Flippy that can fry French fries and ...Read more
Virginia's bat population is shrinking. Here's why it matters
Bats are one of Halloween’s most famous symbols, but their real job is an important part of ecosystems and agriculture.
One William & Mary professor hopes the public can learn to appreciate the flying mammals year-round...Read more
AI's $1.3 trillion future increasingly hinges on Taiwan
When Jung Yoonseok was looking for an assembly partner for his AI chip startup, he had his pick of almost any country in Asia, including his native South Korea. Instead, the Rebellions strategy chief opted for Taiwan ...Read more
Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, cutting more than 500 jobs
Dropbox is laying off 20% of its workforce, eliminating a total of 528 jobs, the software company said Wednesday.
In a memo to staff, CEO Drew Houston told employees the company is in a “transitional period” as they ...Read more
AWS CEO Matt Garman seeks little change, pushes for return to office
The new head of Amazon’s cloud-computing division Matt Garman hopes to keep a lot of things at the company the same.
“The business is doing well…There’s not a desire to massively change anything,” Garman said in...Read more
Caribbean system still brewing with tropical potential, hurricane center says
The National Hurricane Center continues to keep track Wednesday of a system that could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical ...Read more
SpaceX sets its own record with company's 69th Space Coast launch of the year
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX may have contributed to an overall Space Coast record with its previous launch last weekend, but a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday marked the most launches Elon Musk’s company ...Read more
SpaceX aims for its own record with company's 69th Space Coast launch of the year
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX may have contributed to an overall Space Coast record with its last launch over the last weekend, but a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral tonight will be the most launches Elon Musk’s company ...Read more
Another problem with daylight saving time: The time change raises your risk of hitting deer on the road
Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 3, 2024, and most of us will set our clocks back an hour. There is a long-running debate about the benefit of the time change, given how it disrupts humans’ ...Read more
Time to freak out? How the existential terror of hurricanes can fuel climate change denial
As TVs across Florida broadcast the all-too-familiar images of a powerful hurricane headed for the coast in early October 2024, people whose homes had been damaged less than two weeks earlier by Hurricane Helene watched...Read more
Tech review: Bring a few extra screens on your next roadtrip
I’ve been working with a laptop as my main computer for more than a decade.
I used to travel quite a bit for work, and being able to take my main computer with me on the road was very helpful.
At my desk, I’d connect...Read more
Seattle ranks high on AI hiring, but the job hunt isn't always easy
Nearly two years after ChatGPT brought generative AI to everyone’s fingertips, the buzzy technology remains a bright spot for Seattle-area companies.
But landing an AI job isn’t as easy as the hype would lead you to ...Read more
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