Sci/Tech News

October 24, 2017

California launching fire clean-up 'for the record books'

Government officials outlined plans Monday for what they say will be the largest fire clean-up in California history, aimed ...

October 24, 2017

Britain to give Canada the shipwrecks of explorer Franklin

Britain announced Monday it will give Canada the shipwrecks of British explorer John Franklin, who perished with his crew ...

October 23, 2017

Kaspersky to open security code, but will it restore trust?

Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, battered by suspicion of Russian government influence, wants to reassure ...

October 24, 2017

Study: NYC could see bad flooding every 5 years

Within the next three decades, floods that used to strike the New York City area only once every 500 years could occur every ...

October 23, 2017

EPA keeps scientists from speaking about report on climate

The Environmental Protection Agency kept three scientists from speaking at a Monday event in a move condemned by researchers ...

October 23, 2017

Gaza to get second cellular network, from Qatar

A Palestinian cellular provider said Monday it will soon expand coverage from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip.

October 23, 2017

Stephen Hawking's Ph.D thesis goes online, website crashes

Cambridge University has put Stephen Hawking's doctoral thesis online, triggering such interest that it crashed the ...

October 23, 2017

Red light, green light: New cop car can trip traffic signals

The Philadelphia Police Department is getting a new fleet of patrol vehicles that include a feature any motorist stuck at a ...

October 23, 2017

World mayors pledge emissions-free cities by 2030

The mayors of London, Los Angeles, Paris and several other major world cities are pledging to ban gasoline and diesel ...

October 23, 2017

Cisco Systems buying BroadSoft for $1.9 billion cash

Cisco Systems Inc. will pay about $1.9 billion cash to buy BroadSoft Inc. in a move aimed at expanding its communications ...

October 23, 2017

Not so cold duck? Man keeps looking for bird thought extinct

Hope is the thing with feathers, poet Emily Dickinson wrote. For Richard Thorns, the feathers are pink. Thorns' hope? To ...

October 23, 2017

New flight paths lead to airplane noise complaints across US

Airliners began flying over Twila Lake's bungalow-style house in a historic district three years ago, taking off every one ...

October 22, 2017

Czech office says election result web sites were hacked

The Czech Statistics Office says the web sites it used to publish results from a parliamentary election were hacked.

October 22, 2017

More than a dozen states still refuse to release voter data

These are state-by-state responses to a request for detailed voter data from President Donald Trump's Presidential Advisory ...

October 22, 2017

African rhino injures poacher in rare reversal of fortunes

A rhino turned the tables on a suspected poacher in Namibia, charging and injuring the man while he was allegedly tracking it

October 21, 2017

Google parent turns on internet balloons in Puerto Rico

Google's parent Alphabet Inc. said Friday that its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of ...

October 21, 2017

Questions and answers on proposed ban on laptops in luggage

First the U.S. government temporarily banned laptops in the cabins of some airplanes. Now it is looking to ban them from ...

October 21, 2017

Senators press Pruitt for concessions on biofuels mandate

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is looking to make peace on biofuels standards with a group of senators from ...

October 20, 2017

Top Democrat: WH won't ID employees who used private email

The White House counsel's office is refusing to tell a committee on Capitol Hill which of President Donald Trump's aides used ...