Day of the Devs is always a delight, offering new experiences for fans who are tired of the same old shooters and sports games. Indie studios pour their hearts into these passion projects, and it shows in their quirkiness, weirdness and most importantly their innovative ideas.

They challenge conventions or offer a fresh look at an old genre. ...Read more

Formulas, over time, tend to become formulaic. That’s not the case with “Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight,” the fourth entry in the “Lego Batman” series that began in 2008. The formula is familiar: a licensed property set in a world built out of Legos. But instead of just repeating what’s worked in the past, “Legacy” ...Read more

You would be hard-pressed to find a professional landscaper who doesn’t use STIHL gas-powered equipment, since it is the pinnacle in the industry. It's not a stretch to say that the company achieves the same status with its battery-powered handheld tools.

Case in point: the STIHL BGA 50, a 36-volt battery-powered handheld leaf blower set ...Read more

This week a reader writes with a problem, and tells me how he solved it, but he has a larger question about the cause:

“I have been using Hotmail for over 30 years without any issues. A couple of weeks ago I kept facing a situation when Hotmail would keep asking me to change my password. It directed me to a backup email (Gmail) to get a ...Read more

CHICAGO -- For four years, Lockport, Illinois, residents Ray and Shelly Romolt have stared out their window at an empty lot, waiting for the day developers would transform it into a home for new neighbors.

They’ve been eager to watch construction commence, and have long pictured the moment a moving truck would deliver fresh faces to join them...Read more

Apple Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence strategy on Monday at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, aiming to provide practical improvements and features that the company believes everyday consumers will actually use.

At its headquarters in Cupertino, California, the iPhone maker delivered an information-packed keynote in just ...Read more

They won’t be flying to the moon, but will be paving the way. NASA announced today the four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, a mission targeting launch from Kennedy Space Center next year.

“So you want to find out who the astronauts are?” Isaacman said jokingly before revealing the quartet during an event at Johnson Space Center in ...Read more

They won’t be flying to the moon, but will be paving the way. NASA is set to announce today the four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, a mission targeting launch from Kennedy Space Center next year.

The agency will reveal the crew during an event slated for 11:30 a.m. from Johnson Space Center in Houston, which will stream on NASA’s ...Read more

Wildland firefighters are exposed to a mix of harmful chemicals in the smoke they breathe and the ash and soot that gets on their clothing. Over long assignments fighting fires that can last for days to weeks, those chemicals can be absorbed by their skin.

Some of those chemicals are carcinogens. A 2025 study found that firefighters ...Read more

While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I found myself walking down a quiet residential street in Shore Acres, a low-lying, bayfront neighborhood not far from where I grew up.

Two months earlier, Hurricane Helene had sent several feet of water into homes here, even though the center of the storm had stayed ...Read more

Summer is here – the perfect time to take a walk on a beach. But doing so is not always as simple as it might sound.

In Wisconsin, for instance, a legal case has stretched for months over whether Paul Florsheim may keep walking on a Lake Michigan beach he has walked for over 50 years.

In July 2025, Florsheim, a retired ...Read more

The easiest way to understand crypto used to be to look at Bitcoin.

When the world’s largest cryptocurrency rose, money flooded into startups, venture funds, exchanges and thousands of speculative tokens. When it crashed, businesses disappeared, funding dried up and activity slowed across the industry. Bitcoin wasn’t merely the biggest ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new $10 million partnership Monday that will accelerate pollution cleanup work on the Detroit River, a waterway loaded with toxic compounds left behind by factories, coal plants and sewage overflows that dominated the river's shoreline for a century.

Under the ...Read more

Apple on Monday unveiled a new version of its virtual assistant Siri, to take on its artificial intelligence-powered rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

The California smartphone maker has lagged behind its competitors in the AI race as tech companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into advancing their chatbots and ...Read more

Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers have become the backbone of the modern digital economy. But though their key role is in enabling virtual and remote experiences, data centers ...Read more

A SpaceX launch at sunrise on Monday was business as usual, especially for the booster on the flight, which had made the trip 34 times previous.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-35 mission carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched at 6:13 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

The first-stage booster flew for a ...Read more

Summer is the best time of year for location-based mobile games. School is out, workers are on vacation, and it’s time for adventure, whether traveling to new cities or doing a staycation. Franchises such as “Pokemon Go” have taken advantage of the free time and have done big extravaganzas, and Scopely’s sister franchise “Monster ...Read more

As technology developers and researchers rush to develop autonomous AI research tools (i.e., systems that independently perform tasks by designing their workflows and utilizing available tools) an urgent but rarely discussed question is: Do we really need such tools at all?

Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold (an AI tool that visualizes the 3D ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Michele Holtfreter planted fresh pentas in her yard this spring — only to find an iguana was tearing into her blossoms.

“After they started flowering, there was a big green iguana hanging around my palm tree,” recalled Holtfreter, of Deerfield Beach. “Next thing I know, the tops of the pentas are being chewed ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Colorado River Basin faces a complete “system crash,” with little chance that a wet winter will fully prevent a worst-case scenario, a leading group of experts says in a new academic paper.

That is, unless water managers can get serious about cutting water use fast.

Study author Anne Castle, a fellow at the University of ...Read more