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A popular ski resort town in Colorado is adopting a new AI Smart City Solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help it better detect wildfires, as well as update a range of other city services. Vail is expanding its firefighting toolbox as hotter, more arid weather with climate change …

Almost immediately in The Outer Worlds 2, the player receives news of a corporate shake-up: Auntie Cleo and Spacer’s Choice, two of the in-game retail brands, have merged to form Auntie’s Choice. Less a chain of stores and more a feudal power, Auntie’s Choice manages its employees — serfs, really …

Microsoft Azure, including Office 365, Minecraft, X-Box Live, Copilot and many other services, was down for thousands of users on Wednesday due to issues with its domain name system. The tech company said it was “investigating an issue with the Azure Portal where customers may be experiencing issues accessing the …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “The Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola is selling off several luxury watches from his personal collection, including one custom timepiece worth over $1 million, after losing most of his wealth financing his decades-long passion project, “Megalopolis.” The 86-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker reportedly invested …

Bill Gates wants us all to be more upbeat about climate change. He argues that we’ve made great progress on the problem, aided in large part by technological advances. So it’s time to focus more on improving people’s lives, particularly by fighting hunger and disease, he writes in a memo …

Guy HedgecoeIn Benetússer, Valencia region Getty Images More than 230 people died in eastern Spain as a result of the 29 October 2024 floods The last time Toñi García saw her husband, Miguel, and 24-year-old daughter, Sara – their only child – was when flash floods struck their hometown of …

Tributes have been paid to an islander who helped make the Isle of Skye become famous as Scotland’s “Dinosaur Island”. Dugald Ross, who has died at the age of 68 following a period of ill health, is credited with making important fossil discoveries on Skye. When he was a boy …

OpenAI has completed its transition to a for-profit company, after court battles and public criticism from one of its founders, Elon Musk. The company’s for-profit arm will become a public benefit corporation – a company type that must consider both the mission and shareholder interests. But the non-profit arm will …

Authorities in Indian capital Delhi unsuccessfully carried out a cloud seeding trial, which is the science of altering clouds to make rains, to tackle the city’s worsening air pollution on Tuesday. Cloud seeding is done by firing small particles – usually silver iodide – into clouds to produce rain. The …

Rachel Hagan and Mark Poynting,Climate Reporter Strong winds and wild waves in Kingston, Jamaica A very powerful hurricane has made landfall in Jamaica and is the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in modern history. Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 4 storm, first hit the island’s southern coast with …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol, claiming the companies hid alleged dangers that the drug posed to children’s brain development. The lawsuit comes a month after President Donald Trump promoted an unproven link between taking Tylenol – also known as paracetamol – during pregnancy and …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine revealed that the PRIMA brain computer interface (BCI) retinal implant helped people with advanced age-related macular degeneration regain some central vision. The device uses a tiny 2 millimeter by 2 millimeter photovoltaic implant …

Sliced Bread looks into the chemical reaction that happens – and whether it’s harmful. BBC News

A cloud-seeding experiment has been conducted over New Delhi to induce rainfall and clear the city’s smog-filled air – with the move sparking anger among residents. A plane sprayed chemicals into clouds over some areas of the Indian capital to encourage rain and wash pollutants from the air, which remained …

Hurricane Melissa, the world’s most powerful hurricane of the year so far, is closing in on Jamaica, with forecasters warning it could have a “catastrophic” impact. The Category 5 hurricane has reached speeds of 175mph, already making it one of the strongest ever in the Atlantic basin. A storm of …

A “clear” fall in global greenhouse gas emissions is on the near horizon for the first time, the United Nations (UN) has said, after governments including Britain published new plans on how to cut their climate impact. Despite years of UN negotiations, emissions soared to record highs last year – …

One longer walk a day is better for your heart than lots of short strolls, especially if you don’t exercise much, according to new research published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Walking for at least 15 minutes without stopping is ideal, it says. That’s about 1,500 steps in a row, …

Now he’s best known for the crime-fueled duology of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but when Vince Gilligan was first starting out in television, it was in the realm of sci-fi. Over seven years he penned a number of classic episodes of The X-Files, ranging from a monster-themed spoof …

Cherylann Mollan, BBC News and Vishnukant Tiwari, BBC HindiBhopal, Madhya Pradesh BBC Aarish says he’s worried about missing work after losing vision in his left eye Aarish, 15, sits on a hospital bed in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. A pair of dark glasses hides a painful injury …

Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent BBC Listen to Pallab reading this article Hidden away in a lab in north-west London three black metal robotic hands move eerily on an engineering work bench. No claws, or pincers, but four fingers and a thumb opening and closing slowly, with joints in all the right …