Despite San Francisco police repeatedly saying OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s death was a suicide, influential figures on both ends of the political spectrum are spreading questions about foul play, raised by the young man’s grieving family, around the world.

Former Fox News provocateur Tucker Carlson, on his Tuesday podcast, spoke ...Read more

Silicon Valley has come a long way.

In suits and ties on the dais behind President Donald Trump during his inauguration speech Monday — inches from the President’s family — sat Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

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Los Angeles is burning, but it isn’t alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and Greece. What wasn’t burned was smoked in.

Is this another case of a future not only dire but strange, without a narrative to join ...Read more

Incarcerated people in Colorado are exposed to climate-related extreme heat and cold, plus flooding and wildfires. Because they’re unable to escape these hazards, their health suffers and some die.

“I remember it being summer, and there’s no way to get away from the sun. And I remember people just burning,” said one formerly ...Read more

After four years of U.S. progress on efforts to deal with climate change under Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is swiftly swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction.

On his first day back, Trump declared a national energy emergency, directing agencies to use any emergency powers available to boost oil and ...Read more

An email from a friend last week led to a lengthy text exchange to help him locate his camera app, which had gone missing from his iPhone.

“Somehow the camera icon fell off my screen. I must have accidentally removed it. Can you tell me how to get my camera back on my iPhone home screen?”

This friend is proficient in using his phone, but...Read more

January's Consumer Electronics Show showcased the latest and greatest in technology and gadgets. This included miles and miles of trade show space that easily allowed you to get your 10,000 steps — I hit over 30,000 on several days. The show listed more than 4,500 exhibitors, more than 141,000 attendees and more than 6,000 media members.

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The creator economy is one of the biggest developments of the digital age.

Over the past decade, advertisers have funneled billions of dollars into paying social media users with large followings to promote anything from beauty products to new albums. Goldman Sachs predicts the sector will be worth nearly half a trillion by 2027.

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Maxwell Brodie vividly recalls the destructive wildfire he experienced as a kid growing up in the interior of British Columbia.

One night in 2003, lightning struck a tree at around 4 a.m., sparking a massive blaze that scorched Okanagan Mountain Park. Winds picked up, the skies turned orange and more than 30,000 people evacuated from his ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders shortly after his inauguration, including one that rolled back the recent approval of a controversial wind farm in south-central Idaho.

Trump signed a temporary order that prompted an immediate review of federal wind leasing and permitting regulations, and specifically halted any activity...Read more

President Donald Trump targeted California environmental policies with executive orders to revoke the the state’s electric vehicle sales mandate and weaken protections for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, setting the stage for legal battles.

Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned Trump’s flurry of orders to dismantle former President ...Read more

Two years after President Abraham Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture in 1862, he nicknamed it “the people’s department” because half of all Americans lived on farms at that time. Today, fewer than 2% of Americans farm, but the Agriculture Department still touches people’s lives in many ways.

The modern U.S. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Dropping temperatures and the prospect of snow looming in the forecast have Philadelphians crunching through layers of road salt that keep ice and snow from settling on sidewalks and streets.

But what if a sidewalk could melt ice on its own?

That's the goal of a three-year-long project at Drexel University to develop self-...Read more

BALTIMORE — A fifth community solar project has entered Harford County’s development pipeline and is set to add nearly 40 acres to the roughly 61 acres already dedicated to community solar generating systems in Harford County.

Per state law, these systems allow property owners to build solar power systems on their land as long as the ...Read more

After breathless speculation and much digital ink spilled, Nintendo unveiled the Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to its hugely successful console, in a video. Aside from its appearance of it, not much is known about the system. Here’s what can be confirmed:

What games will it play? The Nintendo Switch 2 can play physical and digital games ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the first hours of his second term reversed Biden administration orders that restricted oil and gas development in Alaska.

Trump signed several executive orders during an inauguration day event at the Capitol One Arena. One of Trump’s orders rescinded dozens of ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, streamline permitting for oil and gas drilling and revoke electric vehicle rules.

The claims, which came in his inaugural address and in statements from the White House, are a replay of actions Trump took to roll back environmental ...Read more

Colorado wildlife officials released 15 wolves from Canada into the central mountains over the last week as part of the second wave of the state’s historic, voter-mandated reintroduction of the native predator.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists began capturing the wolves on Jan. 10, and agency officials announced Sunday that CPW had ...Read more

Forever chemicals run through the water supply of Hastings, Minn., and city Public Works Director Ryan Stempski believes he knows why.

“I can throw a football over to 3M Cottage Grove,” he said.

That short distance — and the river separating Hastings from several 3M plants — has been an obstacle to accessing millions of dollars to help...Read more

A few miles south of the Grand Canyon, thousands of tons of uranium ore, reddish-gray, blue and radioactive, are piled up high in a clearing in the forest.

They’ve been there for months, stranded by a standoff between the mining company that dug them deep out of the ground, Energy Fuels Inc., and the leader of the Navajo Nation, Buu Nygren.

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