A series of big storms sending much-needed rain and snow to Northern California has dramatically replenished a drought-stricken reservoir that was on the brink of disaster. Thanks, El Niño! Read more…
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A California Reservoir Infamously Depleted By Drought Rises 20 Feet in 10 Days
The day after Texas experienced weirdly warm temperatures and tornadoes on Christmas Day, a blizzard slammed across the western part of the state. A dozen people were killed by the storms, and now, another tragic death toll has been reported: More than 35, 000 dairy cows lost their lives. Read more…
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35,000 Dairy Cows Were Buried Alive By a Freak Blizzard in Texas
Cities beefing up their smart infrastructure have tapped the ubiquitous streetlamp to track traffic data and measure pollution . Now, in Los Angeles, some streetlights will help keep the communications network intact after an emergency. Read more…
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LA’s New Streetlamps Will Keep Cell Service Running After an Earthquake
Crews working on water mains below New York City’s Greenwich Village made an appropriately spooky find for the week after Halloween: A 19th-century burial vault containing the remains of least a dozen people. Read more…
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Workers Discover 19th-Century Burial Vault With a Dozen Human Skeletons Under Manhattan
If you live in the US, most of the imported goods in your possession have traveled through the Port of Los Angeles, one of the largest ports in the world , and now, one of the biggest environmental success stories on the planet. A new study shows that due to major upgrades started a decade ago, the port is almost 10 years ahead of its emissions goals. Read more…
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The Port of LA’s Big Tech Upgrade Worked So Well It’s Hitting Its 2023 Emissions Goals
It has been a month of supertall news to top them all, with the World Trade Center’s record-breaking 1, 776-foot height possibly getting scooped by a surprise spire in Midtown Manhattan. Now a new rendering from Visualhouse posted at New York Yimby gives an idea of how dramatically the New York City skyline will change just 15 years from now. Read more…
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Here’s What a Supertall New York Skyline Will Look Like In 2030
A bug in the service that delivers Google ads to thousands of websites went down this morning, producing acres of blank pixels where banner ads once resided . It was a little ad-vacation. Read more…
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Hope You Enjoyed Today’s Ad-Free Internet, Thanks to a Google Glitch
Earlier this year Home Depot confirmed that 56 million cards had been compromised in one of the biggest retail security breaches in history. Now we know that much like the Target hack— which was traced to a heating company —Home Depot was infiltrated by custom malware and passwords stolen from a third party vendor. Read more…
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Hackers Ravaged Home Depot With a Password Stolen from a Vendor
For its next stab at original programming, Netflix is venturing into kid-land with a series based on Daniel Handler’s Lemony Snicket books . The series is a partnership with Paramount, which produced the 2004 Jim Carrey film. How great would it be if Carrey starred in the series, too? [ Variety ] Read more…
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For its next stab at original programming, Netflix is venturing into kid-land with a series based on
With another sweltering summer over you might have already forgotten the glory of your AC unit, the 100-year-old modern convenience which truly changed the way we live. But the U.S. might have felt the cool breeze of relief a half-century sooner, if an entire industry built on keeping things frozen hadn’t stopped the first air conditioner from being made. Read more…
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We could have had AC 50 years earlier but the ice lobby killed it