I did not get wet driving the Arc Sport electric boat
I didn't go to CES 2025 with the intention of getting wet on a cold January lake in Lake Mead. But when I discovered Los Angeles-based boat startup Arc has brought a new sports boat to Las Vegas, I figured it was worth the risk. That. The Arc Sport is a joy to drive, even after 30 minutes out...
A Ring of Shining Metal Crashes on Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From
It's been more than a week since reports first emerged of a "glowing ring of metal" falling from the sky and crashing near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenyan Space Agency, the object weighed 1,100 kilograms and was more than 8 feet in diameter when measured after landing in December 30. A few days later, the...
8 Favorite Indoor Air Quality Monitors We’ve Tried (2025)
Until I wrote about my quest for good air in my Brooklyn apartment, I had no idea that air quality monitors existed. Now I can't live without him. To find out the indoor air quality index you have to go into the invisible area to be something you can't see. We humans evolved to respond to changes in temperature,...
Shure MV6 Review: A clean looking Gaming Mic
Getting started is as easy as plug and play, but you need the software to dive into any setting. I'm not a fan of the Motiv Mix software that is recommended on the box. Before I could download it, Shure required my full name, city and state, zip code, and email address for software updates, which seemed unnecessary. The...
This Map Shows How Dry Southern California Is Right Now
THIS ARTICLE is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Dry conditions in Southern California in early January 2025 set the stage for a series of wind-driven wildfires that killed thousands of homes and other buildings in the Los Angeles area. Ming Pan , a hydrologist at the University of California-San Diego's Center for Western Weather and...
Los Angeles will remain under fire risk until next week
Devastating wildfires continued to burn across the Los Angeles metro area on Friday, prompting mandatory evacuations and school closures in the area. Next week promises little chance of relief; conditions will remain favorable for both the growth of wildfires there and for new blazes to spark, as the gusty wind remains amid very dry conditions. Officials reported five major...
The Brightest Comet of 2025 Is Coming. Here’s How You Can See It Shine
Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another celestial spectacle is coming: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the closest point of its orbit to the sun—on January 13. , we will also see it at its closest point to Earth, and it could be the brightest comet in 2025, during which no other comet will...
VCs say AI companies need proprietary data to stand out from the pack
AI companies around the world will raise more than $100 billion in venture capital dollars in 2024, according to Crunchbase data, an increase of more than 80% compared to 2023. That's almost a third of the total VC dollars invested in 2024. That's a lot. money funneling to many AI companies. The AI industry has grown so much in...
How OpenAI bots destroyed this seven-man company’s website ‘like a DDoS attack’
On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. This looks like a distributed denial of service attack. They soon discovered that the culprit was a bot from OpenAI that was constantly trying to destroy all the huge sites. "We have over 65,000 products, every product has a page," Tomchuk told TechCrunch. "Each...
Snappy gets the initial Covver that rewards for sex to play the player
It is now widely accepted that customers and employees who receive corporate gifts will appreciate the brand more, and it does not cost much. The market for this has exploded. One such market player, New York-based Snappy, which has generated more than $125 million to date, is now acquiring Covver, the company's merchandise rewards platform. Terms were not disclosed,...
