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How Meta's upcoming $1,000+ smart glasses with a screen will work
Meta Platforms Inc., ramping up work on a deluxe version of its popular smart glasses, plans to include hand-gesture controls and a screen for displaying photos and apps.
The company intends to introduce its first glasses...Read more
Job losses hammer Bay Area tech industry in brutal beginning for 2025
The Bay Area’s tech industry stumbled at the start of 2025 with a net loss of thousands of jobs over the first two months of this year, a slump that suggests the crucial sector’s hiring woes have yet to run their ...Read more
Microsoft president's vision for Pacific Northwest: 'Tomorrowland' everywhere
REDMOND, Washington — Brad Smith is an unusual futurist.
Before he rose to become Microsoft's president and vice chair, Smith built his reputation as a highly capable attorney with a conciliatory nature.
Much as his ...Read more
Today's Word "perspicacity"
perspicacity \pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee\ (noun) - Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.
"Perspicacity to see what you want isn't much use without power to get it. And power's not worth much without ...Read more
The Olympics
The Netherlands normally dominate in speed skating in the Winter Olympics, yet in 1944, they didn't win a single medal. Who did?
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This Day in History, April 2
On April 2nd, 1513, Ponce de Leon became the first known European to set foot on Florida.
Biotech companies shed hundreds of Bay Area jobs in fresh layoffs
Life sciences companies have decided to chop hundreds of Bay Area jobs in a fresh wave of layoffs that hint at ongoing turbulence in the region’s biotech sector, state labor agency posts show.
All told, the biotech ...Read more
World's largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone. Now what?
LOS ANGELES — Monday was momentous for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing although it still looked like a bridge to nowhere from the 101 Freeway, where more than 300,000 vehicles stream endlessly every day.
Nearly ...Read more
Microsoft turns 50: 4 employees recall their early years
Fifty years ago, two kids from Seattle flipped the tech industry on its head.
While all the big brains in personal computing were focused on machines — "microcomputer" hardware — Bill Gates and Paul Allen were ...Read more
Today's Word "wastrel"
wastrel \WAY-struhl\ (noun) - 1 : A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a spendthrift. 2 : An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing.
"When I was a student in Lawrence, Kansas, there was a wastrel in the ...Read more
Letters and Numbers
Using a combination or letters and/or numbers to sound out the answers, can you solve the clues? (The first one is free)
1. Not difficult - EZ (Easy)
2. Unoccupied
3. To do better than others
4. Defeated
5. A number (use only letters for this one)
6. A sport
7. Freezing
This Day in History, April 1
On April 1st, 1826, Samuel Morey patented the internal combustion engine.
Private SpaceX mission launches humans on 1st polar orbit
SpaceX launched a private mission Monday night sending humans on the first polar orbit of the Earth.
The four civilians climbed aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience on Monday night, launching atop a Falcon 9 rocket from ...Read more
$5 billion proposal for salmon restoration aimed at addressing tribal lawsuit
SEATTLE — State lawmakers revealed a proposal Monday that would authorize special bonds to raise an additional $5 billion for salmon recovery projects stemming from the state’s long-running tribal fishing rights ...Read more
75% of scientists in US weigh leaving amid Trump 'disruptions to science,' poll finds
The American scientific community could soon be plagued by a brain drain, recent polling suggests.
In a survey of U.S.-based scientists conducted by Nature, 75% of respondents said they were “considering leaving the ...Read more
SpaceX launches 1st of 2 Monday launches; human spaceflight up next
SpaceX had two rockets at two pads on the Space Coast on Monday. After a successful first launch of the day, it’s down to one.
That’s because a Falcon 9 carrying 28 Starlink satellites lifted off at 3:52 p.m. Eastern ...Read more
Nasdaq 100's worst quarter in years sealed by AI bubble fears
In a quarter marred by tariff uncertainty, U.S. government spending cuts and the threat of recession, it is fears about a bubble brewing in artificial intelligence that have dealt the latest blow to the Nasdaq 100.
The ...Read more
FAA closes investigation into Blue Origin New Glenn booster failure
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it will allow Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to fly again, following a review of the January mishap in which the rocket made a successful debut launch but crashed ...Read more
Boeing Starliner commander shares blame for spacecraft failure, but would fly on it again
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore put some of the blame on himself when asked who was responsible for Boeing Starliner’s failure on last year’s Crew Flight Test.
He and crewmate Suni Williams flew up to the International ...Read more
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