Technology

Japan’s economy and industry ministry has proposed the gradual release or evaporation of massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water being stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press December 23, 2019, 10:44 AM 4 min read TOKYO — Japan’s economy and industry ministry proposed on Monday the gradual release […]

WOODBRIDGE, N.J. — Housing is in high demand in the heavily populated northeastern United States. But in Woodbridge, New Jersey, the state has bought and torn down 145 homes since 2013 and returned the land to nature, with eight homes demolished this month alone. Dozens more are slated to be torn down in the near

LOS ANGELES — Cue the sad trombone: Movie ticket sales in the United States and Canada will total roughly $11.45 billion for the year, a 4 percent decrease from 2018. That preliminary estimate, released by Comscore on Sunday, took into account the $175.5 million collected by “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” (Disney) over the

In nearly all instances, the software can also identify the country where the material is being hosted, meaning imagery in the Netherlands, for example, can be flagged by a hotline in Canada and get routed by Inhope to the Dutch hotline for further action. The technology advances have helped put some sexual predators on the

It recently became clear, however, that no one on the site is fully protected from law enforcement searches. When the judge in Florida granted a detective a warrant to search the full database, that included nearly a million profiles of people who had chosen not to help police. This search warrant applies only to this

DURHAM, N.H. — Peering over the side of his skiff anchored in the middle of New Hampshire’s Great Bay, Fred Short liked what he saw. Just below the surface, the 69-year-old marine ecologist noticed beds of bright green seagrass swaying in the waist-deep water. It was the latest sign that these plants with ribbon-like strands,

Boeing has landed its first crew capsule in New Mexico after an aborted flight to the International Space Station By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer December 22, 2019, 1:27 PM 5 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the

Robots are demonstrating their abilities in the festive windows at Bloomingdale’s flagship store in New York this year. Eleven machines in three of the stores windows are performing tasks such as playing instruments and serving coffee, as well as offering karaoke carols. The collaboration between store, ABB robots and robot animator Andy Flessas aims to

Boeing’s test of a spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, is being cut short because a problem with its internal clock right after launch on Friday put it into the wrong orbit. The capsule, which was built to resume launches of astronauts from the United States, was not able to dock with the International Space Station because

Long gone are the days of the leather shell and single-bar face mask. Today’s helmets are technological marvels, using cutting edge materials and design elements to make the headgear the safest it’s been in the 100th season of the NFL. No piece of protective equipment has undergone as much transformation over the past decade as