It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water?

ORDBEND, Calif. — In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all.It explains why, amid a historic drought parching much of the American West, a grower of premium sushi rice has concluded that it makes better…

Opera becomes first alternative Android browser optimized for Chromebooks

Image: Opera For the past three years I've been…

MCRI Webcast Series – Robotics Roundtable

Motion Controls Robotics (MCRI) is hosting a monthly, summer webcast series in 2021. MCRI provides automation solutions for customers…

Supreme Court Backs Pipeline in Case on New Jersey Land Seizures

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for a pipeline to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, ruling that PennEast Pipeline Company, the project’s developer, may exercise the federal government’s…

Comcast wants me to do something unnatural and it’s getting annoying

Please stop, Comcast. Screenshot by ZDNet Sometimes…

Is The Jeep Wrangler 4xe’s EV Mode Any Good?

The 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe is second only to the mighty Rubicon 392 in terms of power: 375 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque (which actually ties the 392) from its 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-four and an electric motor stuffed…

In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate Action

The veteran oil-industry lobbyist was told he was meeting with a recruiter. But the video call, which was secretly recorded, was part of an elaborate sting operation by an individual working for the environmental group Greenpeace UK.During…

Ransomware gangs are taking aim at ‘soft target’ industrial control systems

Ransomware attacks are targeting legacy industrial control systems (ICS) and more needs to be done to secure networks at industrial facilities against…

German EV Startup Revives the Legendary 1980s-Era Audi Quattro

E-Legend, a German EV startup, has unveiled renderings of its first product, the EL1, which mimics the design of Audi’s pioneering Quattro rally car.The company claims 805 horsepower, zero to 62 mph in 2.8 seconds, and a 249-mile range…

Boryana Straubel, 38, Dies; Founded a ‘Green’ Jewelry Company

Boryana Dineva was born on May 25, 1983, in Bulgaria. With the fall of Communism in 1989, her family emigrated to Germany, where they lived for a few months in a refugee camp. They also lived in Austria and Russia. After learning English,…