Freezing rain was responsible for numerous accidents, spinouts and crashes from Texas to Arkansas and into the Ohio Valley overnight as a potent winter storm moved into the Northeast on Wednesday. Twelve states are under winter weather alerts from Maryland to Maine on Wednesday as the storm system stretches from the deep South to New […]
The fire and smoke have long dissipated but the excitement of Tuesday’s maiden launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket continues to linger as a lone red car with a mannequin “driver” makes its way through the blackness of space to the soundtrack of David Bowie. The live photos of “Starman” in the drop-top Telsa Roadster […]
After a bruising first year as a publicly traded company, Snap Inc. has finally earned some much-needed breathing room. Shares of the parent company behind the video messaging app Snapchat surged more than 25% in after-hours trading after the Venice company reported stronger-than-expected results Tuesday in its latest earnings report. Snap reported revenue of $285.7 […]
Hawaiians aren’t the only ones who may have experienced a false sense of impending doom recently. A test warning for a tsunami went out this morning, but without being clearly marked as a “TEST.” In an explanatory tweet today, National Weather Service of New York officials said the warning, which was received at least along […]
The Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Times is expected to announce it is selling the newspaper, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, in a surprise move that probably spells the end of its long-troubled relationship with Southern California’s leading news outlet. The buyer is Patrick Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles-area physician and a […]
From the same pad where NASA launched rockets that carried astronauts to the moon, a big, new American rocket arced into space on Tuesday. But this time, NASA was not involved. The rocket, the Falcon Heavy, was built by SpaceX, the company founded and run by the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. The launch of this […]
86 per cent of teenagers have traces of Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound used to make plastics, in their body, an Engaged Research public engagement project in collaboration with the University of Exeter has found. Measurable levels of BPA, an endocrine-disrupting chemical, were found in the urine of the vast majority of the 94 […]
Seven years ago, Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk first publicly introduced the Falcon Heavy rocket, promising that the first launch of the 27-engine behemoth would be “pretty epic.” That day comes Tuesday, when SpaceX plans to launch the Falcon Heavy at 1:30 p.m. EST from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in its first demonstration mission. Falcon […]
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has gotten some blowback for comments she made about the way women snack. In an interview with Freakonomics Radio that posted last week, Nooyi said that when young men eat chips, in particular Doritos, they “lick their fingers with great glee, and when they reach the bottom of the bag, they […]
President Donald Trump on Monday boasted that the economy is roaring under his presidency during remarks at an Ohio manufacturing company, linking economic gains to his policies and the tax cut legislation he signed into law. But Trump’s economy-focused, campaign-style remarks on Monday ignored the beating the stock market has taken in the last two […]
The findings failed to reassure longtime critics of cellphone radiation. Two government studies that bombarded rats and mice with cellphone radiation found a weak link to some heart tumors, but federal regulators and some scientists say don’t worry — it is safe to use your device. They still do. Previous studies of cellphone users had […]
A new SpaceX rocket blasting off on its long-awaited maiden flight this Tuesday — the Falcon Heavy — promises to put on a spectacular show as the world’s most powerful booster climbs away from the Kennedy Space Center’s historic pad 39A atop nearly 5 million pounds of thrust from 27 engines, nine in each of […]
