16+ min ago (311+ words) Meteorological winter begins Monday, and what's better to kick off the season than a budding winter storm holding nor'easter and snow-day potential? All signs point to an evolving storm originating from the deep southeastern part of the country and being carried with the jet stream up the East Coast toward New England by mid- to late Tuesday morning. The blustery storm is expected to make a rather quick exit, with most of New England in the clear by Wednesday morning. There is the potential for this storm to turn into a bona fide nor'easter, but we just don't know yet. The atmosphere is very unsettled, especially with the recent weakening of the polar vortex increasing chances for a winter storm. But should the storm slip over coastal waters, northeast winds off the ocean would then support heavy precipitation across the region....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago (522+ words) Looking ahead, the community is setting its sights on the next stage of growth and innovation. By the end of 2025, openEuler will officially launch its next-generation OS designed for SuperPoDs, setting the foundation for the AI era and strengthening global collaboration. Chairman of OpenAtom Foundation Cheng Xiaoming, in his keynote remarks, emphasized that open source thrives on collaboration and that ecosystems grow through shared effort. He highlighted that every step forward for openEuler relies on close coordination among hardware partners, software vendors, and global developers. openEuler's First OS Release for SuperPoDs As AI workloads grow at unprecedented speed, conventional server clusters are struggling to keep pace. The industry is shifting toward SuperPoDs'ultra-large-scale clusters that integrate multiple physical machines into a unified computing unit capable of AI training and inference'to address these challenges. At the summit, Dr. Xiong Wei, Chairperson of…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago (243+ words) Governments at a wildlife trade conference have adopted greater protections for over 70 species of sharks and rays amid concerns that overfishing is driving some to the brink of extinction. Governments also agreed to enact zero-annual export quotas for several species of guitarfishes and wedgefishes, meaning the legal international trade will mostly be halted. "This is a landmark victory, and it belongs to the Parties who championed these protections," Luke Warwick, director of shark and ray conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society, said in a statement. "Countries across Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Asia came together in a powerful show of leadership and solidarity, passing every shark and ray proposal." Conservationists argued the measures were necessary to address overfishing of many species for fins and meat as well as oil and gills. They argue the billion dollar trade is unsustainable,…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago (344+ words) The first measurable snow of the season could blanket the Boston area and other parts of Southern New England next week, with a nor'easter forecast to brush the region Tuesday night into Wednesday. Potential nor'easter next week could bring Boston its first measurable snow of the season It's still early, but Southern New England may end up with some accumulating snow if the storm track stays farther offshore. The first measurable snow of the season could blanket the Boston area and other parts of Southern New England next week, with a nor'easter forecast to brush the region Tuesday night into Wednesday. The Northeast's active weather pattern on Monday is expected to continue into Tuesday when a new storm system, the nor'easter, approaches. The track of this nor'easter will determine what type of precipitation we get, snow or rain, but some…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago (452+ words) CONCORD, N.H. " No one wants a weasel on their Thanksgiving table, but swapping turkeys for other animals was once surprisingly common. Trading turkeys " for wildlife management, not dinner " was a key part of one of North America's biggest conservation success stories. After dwindling to a few thousand birds in the late 1880s, the wild turkey population has grown to about 7 million birds in 49 states, plus more in Canada and Mexico, according to the National Wild Turkey Federation. In many cases, restoration relied on trades. The exchange rates varied, but Oklahoma once swapped walleye and prairie chickens for turkeys from Arkansas and Missouri. Colorado traded mountain goats for turkeys from Idaho. The Canadian province of Ontario ended up with 274 turkeys from New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Michigan, Missouri, and Iowa in exchange for moose, river otters, and partridge. "Wildlife biologists don't suffer from…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago (220+ words) Given the federal retreat and the value to our environment, both Massachusetts and Rhode Island should consider making heat pump purchases exempt from state taxes, saving thousands for consumers and more than replacing the lost federal credit. For years, critics of heat pumps had questioned their ability to heat a house or business on those days when the temperature fell below zero. That, for us, has never been a problem. Technology and installation, along with insulation, have all improved. If you have any doubts, heat pumps are the leading source for home heat in Scandinavia " a region much colder than Maine. By most measures, switching from gas or oil to a heat pump is the single most effective way for a homeowner to reduce the amount of climate changing carbon they add to the atmosphere. How much? The average home…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago (433+ words) (Bloomberg) " Amazon.com Inc.s AI-infused Rufus shopping assistant has new features that make it a "faster, more useful, state-of-the-art shopping companion." Googles agentic checkout feature "can do the heavy lifting to help you get the perfect item without blowing your budget.OpenAI on Monday unveiled a free ChatGPT toolit says can generate a personalized gift-buying guide. McKinsey could be right, but for the time being, agentic commerce is in an awkward experimental phase, with companies strugglingto solve various technical challenges and negotiate partnershipseven as they push out a variety of tools and features to see what works and what doesnt. "There are a lot of really big bets being made right now that consumers want to shop differently and that chat is the way they want to start shopping," said Emily Pfeiffer, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. "I…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago (109+ words) MOSCOW (AP) " A U.S.-Russian crew of three launched Thursday to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian crewmates, Sergei Mikaev and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, lifted ... US-Russian crew of 3 blasts off to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz rocket NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian crewmates, Sergei Mikaev and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, lifted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz rocket. All three are scheduled to spend about eight months at the orbiting outpost. The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft was scheduled to dock at the station about three hours after the liftoff....

3+ day, 11+ hour ago (151+ words) Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state in the U.S. and one of the most seismically active regions in the world. A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocks the Anchorage area of Alaska, largest since 2021 The quake struck at about 8:11 a.m. local time at a depth of 43 miles, according to the USGS. Its epicenter was located 7 miles west-northwest of Susitna, Alaska, an area located about 67 miles northwest of the city. There were no immediate reports of significant damage. A tsunami was not expected, the U.S. Tsunami Warning System said. Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state in the U.S. and one of the most seismically active regions in the world, according to the USGS. The state experiences a magnitude 7 earthquake almost annually. Thursday's quake is the largest to hit the south central part of Alaska since 2021, KTUU TV reported....

3+ day, 20+ hour ago (325+ words) When storm systems track to our west, we end up on the warmer side, and this is why I'm expecting rain, not snow, on Sunday night and into very early on Monday. Most of the precipitation should be over by sunrise on Monday as folks get back to work. If you are traveling through northern New Hampshire and extreme northwestern Maine on Sunday evening, you could experience some wintry weather up there. This will not be a major snow event, however. A disrupted polar vortex could bring us more cold days than warmer ones to close out the month through the first half of December. These stretches of cold air could see little warmups here and there. Greater Boston: Look for temperatures near 40 Saturday afternoon with a chilly wind. Temperatures on Sunday will start in the 20s and end up near…...