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Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Erupts with Dramatic Lava Fountains Jeanna Bryner Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted beginning Sunday (Dec. 20) night local time, with dramatic lava fountains and huge puffs of gas and steam being launched from the summit crater called Halemaʻumaʻu, the Hawaii Volcano Observatory (HVO), part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), reported. Though the…
Sonos is fighting a war to stay relevant For Sonos, 2020 began in dramatic fashion. While the tech world was focused on CES, the company made a splash by suing Google for allegedly infringing five of its wireless speaker patents. Sonos said this was just a small portion of Google’s overall infractions, noting that both…
Dramatic Scope of the Anthropocene Can Be Seen from Above Doris Elin Urrutia To understand the 4.5 billion years of the earth’s past and predict what may happen to the planet and its inhabitants in the future, scientists across different disciplines think about divisions of geologic time such as epochs. These chapters of the earth’s…
Lead Pollution Reflects Dramatic World Events Mark Fischetti Ice cores from Greenland and the Russian Arctic show an ever changing amount of airborne lead pollution that has wafted northward from Europe, Asia and North America each year. Lead levels tracked monumental events in human history, including Phoenicia’s expansion in 1,000 B.C., the Roman Empire’s rise,…
Apple’s iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public betas are available today Apple announced plenty of dramatic changes to iOS and iPadOS during its WWDC keynote — there’s expanded widget support, an App Library for iPhones, a suite new of Apple Pencil features for the iPad, and a whole lot more. While the final versions of…