Some West Coast residents were jolted awake on Thursday when they received an earthquake alert test that was sent to their mobile phones at 3:19 a.m. because of a time zone mix-up, the United States Geological Survey said. The noisy alerts were sent to people who use MyShake, an early-warning app for earthquakes, said Robert-Michael…
“We can’t enter, we don’t understand the new system,” complained Wendy Perez Peña, 31, who left Venezuela in March to escape poverty. Jeison Rodriguez Jesus Salas, 27, shook his head in frustration. “They haven’t updated it well, they should have updated it better,” he said. Out of the group of 11, not one had been…
Bob Lee, the well-known tech executive and investor who created Cash App, was fatally stabbed on a dark, secluded San Francisco street on April 4. The initial news of his death elicited a furious response from a handful of Silicon Valley executives, including the billionaire Elon Musk, who blamed city leaders and suggested that uncontrolled…
SAN FRANCISCO — The fury erupted within hours, as word spread that the 43-year-old man who had been stabbed to death this week in an enclave of high-rise condominiums near the Bay Bridge was Bob Lee, a well-known tech executive. The leaders of “lawless” San Francisco had Mr. Lee’s “literal blood on their hands,” Matt…
Better smartphone cameras have helped, as have inexpensive macro-lens attachments and the ubiquity of wireless internet access. Birders who have mastered some of the world’s nearly 11,000 bird species have been drawn to the all-inclusive nature of iNaturalist, where they can also tackle the roughly 900,000 named species of insects, say, or the 377,990 species…