A tribal casino in Oklahoma is using an app tied to its surveillance camera system that uses artificial intelligence to detect patrons carrying firearms.

Travis Thompson, director of compliance for the Muskogee Nation Gaming Enterprise in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said it’s believed to be the first casino property to install the ZeroEyes digital ...Read more

Toyota Motor Corp.’s research unit and Hyundai Motor Co.’s Boston Dynamics are joining forces to speed up development of humanoid robots with artificial intelligence.

The partnership will pair Toyota Research Institute’s expertise in large behavior model learning for machines with Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Atlas robot, they said ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk's SpaceX is suing the California Coastal Commission, just days after the agency tasked with protecting the state's coast and beaches rejected a plan for the company to launch up 50 rockets into space this year.

In the federal suit, filed Tuesday in the Central District of California, the company accuses the state ...Read more

Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One.

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet – on land, in the air and even in clouds. An estimated 170 trillion bits of microplastic are estimated to...Read more

The global aquaculture industry has tripled in size since the year 2000, with producers raising a mind-boggling diversity of species, from seaweeds and clams to carp, salmon and cuttlefish. Many of these creatures are undomesticated and lead complex and highly social lives in the wild.

The rapid growth in aquaculture means that ...Read more

NASA has officially given SpaceX the next two missions to the International Space Station under its Commercial Crew Program with Boeing’s Starliner still potentially available for a late visit in 2025 if it achieves certification.

NASA announced updated crew rotation plans Tuesday including a crew assignment for Crew-10, the program’s next ...Read more

Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent with schools of fish, their marshlands and endless tracts of channels melting into the gray-blue horizon.

Fast-forward to today, and in estuaries such as New York Harbor, San Francisco Bay and Miami’s Biscayne Bay – areas where rivers meet the sea – ...Read more

Alyssa Bauder was just learning how to read, but she had already memorized the colors of food packaging that spelled danger for her: peanuts. The 6-year-old knew to stay away from chocolate dressed in orange or blue and yellow wrappers.

Then everything got bungled on Valentine’s Day. Her first grade class exchanged handfuls of candy all ...Read more

3M isn’t out to compete with Apple or Beats, but the company’s new solar-powered, noise-reducing, Bluetooth-equipped headset might interest audiophiles as much as avid woodworkers.

For about $170, 3M’s new WorkTunes headset boasts many of the same specs as high-end headphones for half the price, plus a solar cell that charges the unit. ...Read more

I’ve been an iPhone user since the original iPhone.

Heck, I was in the audience when Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iPhone.

After the unforgettable introduction, all of us who attended Macworld in 2007 marched over to the Apple booth on the floor of the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

There were no iPhones to play with, only two ...Read more

One of the biggest design shifts in headsets was the Apple AirPods. Although mocked initially, the devices proved to be a sea change for the industry. Now, wireless earbuds have become ubiquitous, and major brands have their own version.

Video game peripheral makers have taken note and they’re selling their own wireless earbuds. Razer has ...Read more

I live in Dallas, and like most other Texans, I was jolted awake at 4:53 a.m. on a recent Friday.

The police chief in the panhandle town of Memphis, Texas, was shot during an arrest and DPS authorities had issued a Blue Alert for the suspect, who escaped after the shooting.

Because the suspect was not in custody and deemed a danger to the ...Read more

OneOdio's OpenRockX open-ear air conduction true wireless sport earbuds are designed, as the name states, to use when working out, running or doing other athletic activities. But that’s not all. They work great for general listening on a boring walk, while doing outdoor chores, including lawn mowing, and just general music listening.

If you...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday with a full OK from the Federal Aviation Administration, its first since a second stage failure on the Crew-8 launch grounded the rocket.

A Falcon 9 carrying 23 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 2:10 a.m. marking ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Salisbury residents have filed a class action lawsuit against a Perdue Farms subsidiary over PFAS contamination found in groundwater on its site.

The federal lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of Maryland, alleges that Perdue AgriBusiness was reckless in its disposal of PFAS-containing wastewater, causing the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Less than a week after the northern lights dazzled observers across California, stargazers are in for another treat.

The harvest supermoon will shine in the sky above the Golden State on Thursday, Oct. 17.

It will be “the biggest and brightest supermoon” to shine in 2024, the Old Farmer’s Almanac said, “so that ...Read more

The trauma of natural disasters doesn’t end when the storm or wildfire is gone, or even when communities are being put back together and homes have been rebuilt.

For many people, being displaced by a disaster has long-term consequences that often aren’t obvious or considered in disaster aid decisions.

We study public ...Read more

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life.

With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5 1/2-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA has officially retired a �...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California officials have joined a legal effort to restore water to the Kern River after an abrupt shutoff of water dried up the river and killed thousands of fish in Bakersfield.

The decision by state officials and Attorney General Rob Bonta to intervene in the court case gives new impetus to environmental groups as they try to...Read more

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there. It’s a step that could help the bigger hunt beyond our solar system.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy carrying the largest satellite ever built for NASA’s planetary science missions lifted off ...Read more