1+ week, 4+ day ago (30+ words) A North Carolina snake swallowed a catfish whole in a surprising encounter that was captured in a viral social media video. Arctic air will plunge southward Thanksgiving week, bringing freezing ......

2+ week, 3+ day ago (398+ words) Want a repeat performance of the northern lights? Or did you miss the spectacle yesterday? Tonight, Nov. 12, the show could be even better. The aurora borealis twinkled in the sky as far south as Florida on Nov. 11 due to a severe geomagnetic storm. Another severe storm is forecasted for tonight by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issued at about 1 p.m.. "Aurora may be seen as low as Alabama and northern California, the alert said. With the updated forecast, Connecticut is now firmly in the predicted view line, an indicator that the show could be even better than last night's when the state was outside the predicted view line. Clearing skies should help with viewing. In the forecast, the following states have the best chance of seeing on Nov. 12 However, the following states are in the view line, which shows where people…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (564+ words) According to a new AI Readiness Report performed by Nexford University, professionals who use AI every day earn about 40% more than those who don't. Among Gen Z workers, the gap jumps to 47% " a clear sign that AI literacy is quickly becoming a competitive edge. Yet only 27% of employees say their companies offer formal AI training. That means the fastest way to boost your career might be learning how to talk to an AI model on your own " and it starts with prompts. Whatever your career or education, using ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude effectively can make your work faster, smarter and more strategic. Here are nine prompts to help you start right now. Prompt: "Create a step-by-step guide to automate [task] using free tools or built-in software.Reduce manual work and free up time for tasks that require you to be…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago (422+ words) I'm always looking for ways to improve my email security, limit the amount of spam reaching my inbox, and generally keep my emails organized. Plus email addressing helps me achieve all three of these goals. Plus email addressing'also known as sub-addressing'is a feature that lets you create multiple variations of your primary email address by adding a plus (+) and a tag before the @ sign. For example, if your standard email address is [email protected], a plus email address might be [email protected]. Most major email providers, including Outlook, Gmail, Proton Mail, and iCloud Mail, let you use unlimited plus aliases, even if you've set up a custom domain. Usefully, this behavior is usually set up automatically, so you don't need to trawl through various settings to get started. Some email clients can generate randomized aliases on your behalf, and any message that's…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (156+ words) High clouds this morning giveway to afternoon sunshine across the area along with seasonably mild temperatures. Clouds increase tonight, with a chance for a few showers arriving on Friday as a weak weather system pushes through the region. Cool high pressure builds in for Saturday with decreasing clouds expected. A weak warm frontal system passes by to the north on Sunday bringing more clouds a few showers to Central NY, with mostly sunny skies prevailing in Northeast PA. High clouds this morning giveway to afternoon sunshine across the area along with seasonably mild temperatures. Clouds increase tonight, with a chance for a few showers arriving on Friday as a weak weather system pushes through the region. Cool high pressure builds in for Saturday with decreasing clouds expected. A weak warm frontal system passes by to the north on Sunday bringing…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (410+ words) Fung-wong was earlier classified as a typhoon but is losing intensity as it approaches Taiwan, where it is expected to make landfall Wednesday afternoon or evening near the southwestern port city of Kaohsiung. On Tuesday morning, the storm had maximum sustained winds of up to 108 kph (67 mph) and gusts of 137 kph (85 mph) and is expected to sweep across the island and exit from its northeastern side Wednesday evening or early Thursday, Taiwan's weather agency said. More than 3,300 people from four counties and cities have been evacuated near the eastern township of Guangfu, where flooding from a typhoon in September caused a barrier lake to overflow, killing 18 people. Schools and offices were closed on Tuesday in Hualien and Yilan counties, while weather authorities issued a land warning covering south and southwestern areas including Kaohsiung, Pingtung County, Tainan and Taitung. China activated…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago (326+ words) There's some spaceflight action on tap on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), but you'll have to get up pretty early to catch it. A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch from the Russian-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thanksgiving at 4:27 a.m. EST (0927 GMT; 2:27 p.m. local time), sending NASA astronaut Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikayev toward the International Space Station (ISS). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency's YouTube. Coverage will start at 3:30 a.m. EST (0830 GMT). If all goes according to plan, the trio's Soyuz spacecraft will reach the ISS a little over three hours after launch, docking with the orbiting outpost's Rassvet module at about 7:38 a.m. EST (1238 GMT). NASA will cover that milestone as well, beginning at 6:45 a.m. EST (1145 GMT). The hatches between the Soyuz and the ISS are expected to open…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (113+ words) An astronomer in Hiratsuka City, Japan, captured the moment a meteor hit the moon on the evening of November 1. Astronomer Daichi Fujii, who operates under the X handle @dfuji1, captured this footage. Fujii is a curator of astronomy at Hiratsuka City Museum, according to local news reports. Fujii's telescopes captured what he described on X (via machine translation) as a "lunar impact flash." "Because the moon has no atmosphere, meteors cannot be seen; instead, it lights up at the moment a crater forms. This could be from the Southern Taurids or Northern Taurids," Fujii wrote. This footage shows a brief flash occur near the moon. Credit: Daichi Fujii/@dfuji1 via Storyful...

2+ week, 4+ day ago (575+ words) The northern lights are set to shimmer across U.S. skies again on Wednesday night, Nov. 12, after making a rare appearance as far south as Florida the previous night. A coronal mass ejection'an immense burst of solar material and magnetic fields'was predicted to strike Earth around midday Nov. 12, sparking increased geomagnetic activity. This disturbance could bring the aurora borealis into view across much of the northern United States, and possibly as far south as Alabama and Northern California, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center. In all, nearly 20 states may experience this spectacular display. While the Space Weather Prediction Center's aurora view line for Wednesday night does not reach the Sunshine State, neither did yesterday's, and sightings were reported as far south as Southwest Florida. According to NOAA, the aurora does not need to be directly overhead but can be observed from…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago (532+ words) TechRadar and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. A staggering 57.8 billion personal data points have been exposed in breaches since 2004. Passwords are the single most leaked data type, accounting for over 30% of all exposed information. The United States is the most affected country, accounting for nearly 19 billion of the leaked data points. A sobering new study from cybersecurity firm Surfshark has laid bare the true scale of the data breach epidemic, revealing that a mind-boggling 57.8 billion individual pieces of personal data have been leaked online since 2004. The study clarifies that a single "leaked account" (such as an email address) can be linked to multiple "data points," which are the individual pieces of information exposed alongside it. On average, each leaked account was compromised with 2.8 additional data points, showing that breaches…...