In Oregon, the new building and so-called defensible space codes will affect only about 106,000 tax lots.
Oregon homeowners who live in certain high-risk wildfire areas defined by the state must now meet new building codes and reduce vegetation around their homes under new “wildfire hazard maps” unveiled Tuesday.
On Reddit and Instagram, users are slamming the fast-food chain’s reformulation of its popular potato product, which also introduces a new allergen.
You might not need to be a supertaster to recognize that Chick-fil-A‘s popular Waffle Potato Fries taste different, according to customers who have been posting about it across social media.
Vivek Murthy, who focused much of his efforts on the epidemic of loneliness in America, is making one last recommendation before leaving office.
Outgoing United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy just released his Parting Prescription for America, a set of reflections on his personal and professional experiences after spending six of the last ten years as our nation’s top doctor.
Tapping White to join the board could be seen as Zuckerberg’s latest maneuver to improve ties with Trump, who was once banned from Facebook.
Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, including Dana White, the president and CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship and a familiar figure in the orbit of incoming President Donald Trump.
Forget going to the doctor's office; these companies are putting the power of tracking every aspect of your health into our own hands. But do you really want to know?
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LG has revealed a new UltraFine monitor at CES, and it features a thin display mounted on an equally slim base. It’s also the first 6K monitor to support Thunderbolt 5, as spotted earlier by MacRumors.
That means it should have a data throughput of up to 80Gbps (or up to 120Gbps if it supports Intel’s Bandwidth Boost mode). It also has a “Nano IPS Black” panel that LG says “delivers exceptional color accuracy and a high contrast,” with 99.5 percent Adobe RGB and...
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A lander hasn’t successfully reached the surface of the Moon’s cratered Mare Crisium region since the Soviet Luna 24 probe landed there to collect samples in August 1976. But SpaceX is prepping a launch that’ll send not one, but two landers there on Wednesday January 15th, Firefly Aerospace has announced.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch at approximately 1:11 AM EST, and will not only have Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lander on board,...
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Just after the season’s first major winter storm, snow and ice are set to sweep across Texas and into the Carolinas this week.
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After injuring his MCL in the regular season, David Montgomery may be back for the Lions in the playoffs
The Detroit Lions’ win over the Minnesota Vikings in the final game of the 2024 NFL regular season clinched the NFC North, as well as the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs.
More importantly for the Lions, it locked up the lone bye week in the NFC, which comes at a critical time for Detroit.
The Lions have been beleaguered by injuries this season, but help...
From left to right: a pair of Reolink’s new Altas cameras, the Home Hub, and Reolink’s solar panels. | Image: Reolink
Reolink’s new Altas series of consumer-oriented surveillance cameras can continuously record video to a local SD card 24 hours a day for up to seven days off of battery — or almost two years when recording based on motion.
The company’s cameras can also be connected to Reolink’s new Home Hub to store video footage in a central location on your home network...
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SteamOS was always supposed to be bigger than Valve’s own Steam Deck, and 2025 is the year it finally expands. Not only will Lenovo ship the first third-party SteamOS handheld this May, Valve has now revealed it will let you install a working copy of SteamOS on other handhelds even sooner than that.
Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of the lead designers on the Steam Deck and SteamOS, tells me a beta for other handhelds “is slated to ship after March...
Savant Smart Budget lets you add more capacity than your breaker box can technically support. | Image: Savant
At CES this week, Savant Systems announced Savant Smart Budget, a feature of its Smart Power system of modular relays and equipment that integrates with your existing circuit breaker box.
If you’re already at the limits of your breaker box’s capacity, Smart Budget lets you get around that with automated control of individual circuits. That way, you can add more high-draw...
RCA has announced a new lineup of IP55-rated outdoor TVs with bezels finished with camo patterns. | Image: RCA
RCA has announced a new line of bright QLED TVs designed to be installed and blend into outdoor settings with bezels finished in a “spirit of wilderness” and Mossy Oak camouflage design. They’re dust and water-resistant, and will work in temperatures ranging from minus 22 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
The company hasn’t announced when its new outdoor TV lineup will be...
"I know trans people who didn't survive Trump's last term."
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Unlawful crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border dropped sharply last year. Now, Mexico and countries in Central America are bracing for mass deportations from the U.S. after the Trump administration takes over.
Forty-eight Democrats joined Republicans in supporting legislation that aims to deport more migrants charged with nonviolent crimes, a first salvo in a broader crackdown.
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