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Florida is experiencing its most intense drought in 15 years, with more than 70% of the Sunshine State facing what the U.S. Drought Monitor calls “extreme” to “exceptional” drought conditions.Northern Florida is suffering the driest conditions in the state, and recent rainfall has brought almost no relief, according to the latest drought data. Forecasts show no rain and high temperatures over the next week, so the situation will likely get worse before it gets better, experts told Live Science.”Dry conditions have been building throughout the winter,” Esther Mullens, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Florida, told Live…

L.L. Bean is famous for its outdoorsy appeal, ranging from outerwear and supplies to withstand the elements to laid-back lifestyle products. The company was established in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean in Maine. It remains headquartered there today, continually rolling out revered classics and updated essentials for today’s nature lovers. Take the Bean Boots: what started as L.L. Bean’s premier product ultimately helped shape the brand into what it is today. This definitive shoe, which can be worn on hiking trails and rain-slicked city streets alike, has remained true to the original version. If you’ve ever wanted to capture the…

Notifications are one of those things you don’t really think about until they start driving you crazy. Android has quietly built a pretty solid system for managing them over the years, and a new feature spotted in Android 17’s code suggests Google isn’t done yet. It also looks like the gap between Android and iOS in this area is about to get harder to overlook.What Google is quietly building into Android 17Code strings inside the Android 17 Beta 3 point to a feature called Notification Rules, according to a new report that builds on an earlier code analysis. You’d be…

The search for signs of life on Mars continues to yield promising data. A first-of-its-kind wet chemistry experiment, published Tuesday in Nature, confirmed the presence of essential ingredients of life preserved in ancient Martian sandstones.The molecules were found inside 3.5-billion-year-old sandstone. NASA’s Curiosity rover collected the clay-filled rocks from an area called Glen Torridon, inside Mars’ enormous Gale Crater. The rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) mobile instrument suite analyzed the data.The experiment was unique as the first off-Earth study to use the chemical tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH). The reagent allows Curiosity to break down larger organic molecules on the Martian surface,…

The first time I played Pragmata was at Summer Game Fest 2025. After the demo, a colleague came up to me and asked what my reading was of Diana, the android made to look like a young girl. We’d only gotten to play around 30 minutes of the game, so I was honest and told her I didn’t have much of an impression of her yet. Then, like a baseball bat to my gut, she told me she was worried the character might be “pedo bait.”  As we talked about it further, she told me that she’d been asking folks…

Shocking News Fails To Shock Anyone Who Has Been Paying Attention A privacy search engine called webXray conducted an audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic, specifically checking for the presence of ad cookies that were dropped onto machines which had already opted out of cookie tracking.  55% of sites checked ignored that setting and dropped cookies of various flavours on the devices anyway.  This means that in over half the sites you visit, the only purpose of that pop up at the bottom asking you about your cookie preferences is to annoy you, it actually has no effect…

[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, the hidden settings page you never knew existed, options.php. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast, player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on…

After nearly half a century in space, the Voyager 1 spacecraft just shut down one of its last remaining science instruments in a desperate attempt to preserve power. NASA’s decision to turn off the instrument comes just ahead of a last-ditch “Big Bang” moment that mission managers hope will give the two Voyager probes an extra boost of life later this summer.On Friday (April 17), Voyager 1 was commanded to shut down the Low-Energy Charged Particle (LECP) experiment, an instrument that has looked at ions, electrons and cosmic rays surrounding the spacecraft for the past 49 years.But now, Voyager 1…

What you can hear is delivered through technology that’s been around for some time now. Bone conduction works by firing sound vibrations up your cheekbones and towards your inner ear. There’s no companion app or EQ modes, so what you get out of the box is what you’re stuck with. The sound quality is fine. It’s not terrible, but it’s also not going to blow your socks off.It’s best to accept that with bone conduction you’re not going to get the same sound quality as you would from a similarly-priced set of in-ear or on-ear headphones. Instead, the aim is…

Monterey Park’s city council has moved to ban construction of any data centers within its borders. The California city’s leaders placed a permanent ban on these buildings, labelling them a public nuisance. A proposed plan to construct a 250,000 square foot data center was stopped after residents and advocates pushed back against the project.Tech journalist Brian Merchant reported on the public comment phase of the city council meeting where residents spoke decisively about data centers. “I can tell you that this issue has brought left, right and center together. It’s a quality of life issue,” one commenter said. “Don’t let…