GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-09-18 07:10:24

“What this whole debate comes down to is who controls the skies,” Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told the audience at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday. “Do we believe in God and that he has dominion over his perfect creation of planet Earth? Do we believe that he has given us everything we need to survive as a civilization since the beginning of time? Or do you believe in man’s claim of authority over the weather, based on scientists that have only been

Topics: conspiracy greene hearing modification weather

Shop Amazon

Google is phasing out one of its staple Wear OS apps

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-27 05:33:23

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Google is discontinuing its legacy Weather app for Wear OS 6 and newer versions. Wear OS 6 is the latest iteration of the software and is based on Android 16. Wear OS 6 users who already had the old Weather app before upgrading can continue using it, but new downloads from the Play Store will no longer be allowed. Pixel Watch users will get upgraded to the Pixel Weather app. Google will no longer offer its Weather app for new installations on Wear OS

Topics: app google os wear weather

Shop Amazon

Google is expanding the Pixel Weather app to Wear OS

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:52:45

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel Weather app is coming to Wear OS. Pixel Weather on Wear OS has a similar layout to the Weather app, but introduces Material 3 Expressive design. The app is expected to arrive with the Pixel Watch 4, but screenshots are already showing up on the Play Store. Back in 2022, Google gave Wear OS 3 a standalone weather app simply called Weather. It provides pretty much all the information you need from such an app, like the temperature, the daily h

Topics: app os pixel wear weather

Shop Amazon

Google’s AI Weather Model Nailed Its First Major Storm Forecast

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-25 00:55:30

While generative AI tools that primarily amount to slop generators grab most of the attention in the artificial intelligence space, there are occasionally some actually useful applications of the technology, like Google DeepMind’s use of AI weather models to predict cyclones. The experimental tool, launched earlier this year, successfully managed to provide accurate modeling of Hurricane Erin as it started gaining steam in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month. As Ars Technica first reported, H

Topics: google hurricane model modeling weather

Shop Amazon

This new Pixel 10 feature makes weather reports even more personal, but not for everyone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 00:30:30

The Pixel 10 series features Magic Cue , a type of personal assistant that pulls information from other apps. Thanks to Magic Cue, the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro XL now have a new weather-related feature that makes weather reports even more personal, but sadly, not for everyone. The three new Pixel flagships now support personal weather insights in the Pixel Weather app. These insights deliver tailored weather details and preparation tips based on events and plans saved in your Google account

Topics: 10 insights personal pixel weather

Shop Amazon

XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 20:38:57

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? One of the issues we've seen in #11523 and #11563 is that the proposal to remove XSLT from the spec doesn't acknowledge existing use cases beyond Chrome Status counter stats. According to Chrome's own Blink principles of web compatibility: The primary signal we use is the fraction of page views impacted in Chrome, usually computed via Blink’s UseCounter UMA metrics. As a general rule of thumb, 0.1% of PageVisits (1 in 1000) is large, while 0.001% is c

Topics: client https weather xml xslt

Shop Amazon

Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 20:57:41

After 10 years of building and maintaining Rain Viewer, I’ve made one of the most difficult decisions of my career: transitioning our API services to limited operation throughout 2025. As the founder who created this service to help developers worldwide visualize weather radar data, I understand the impact this has on your projects and businesses. Rain Viewer isn’t disappearing - we’ll continue providing radar data through our website and maintain our tiled map service for personal and educatio

Topics: api data radar rain weather

Shop Amazon

UK government advises deleting emails to save water

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 08:12:47

The National Drought Group met today (Monday 11 August) with the current water shortfall situation in England now defined as a “nationally significant incident.” Five areas are officially in drought, with six more experiencing prolonged dry weather following the driest six months to July since 1976. Despite the unsettled weather last month, many river flows and reservoir levels in England continued to recede compared to June. Rainstorms and showers helped mask the fact that July was still the

Topics: drought dry leaks water weather

Shop Amazon

Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

wired.com Meg Wilcox 2025-11-23 12:00:00

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When staffing shortages caused the National Weather Service (NWS) to suspend weather balloon launches at its Kotzebue, Alaska, station earlier this year, a startup deploying next-generation weather balloons, WindBorne Systems, stepped up to fill the void. The company began selling its western Alaskan atmospheric data to the NWS in February, plugging what could have been a critical data gap in w

Topics: data noaa private said weather

Shop Amazon

Show HN: Print the daily weather forecast on a thermal receipt printer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 04:34:51

Thermal Receipt Weather Printer Prints a daily weather forecast on an ESC/POS thermal printer, such as the "Bisofice Mini BT thermal receipt printer". Dependencies | Setup | Usage | Cron Dependencies Python 3 Pillow : The Python imaging library. : The Python imaging library. ImageMagick: For converting SVG icons to a printable format. Setup Install dependencies: On Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install imagemagick python3-pil On other systems, install ImageMagick via

Topics: dev lp0 printweather timezone weather

Shop Amazon

HomeKit Weekly: Tracking local weather in HomeKit is simple with the Eve Weather

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-12-08 12:00:00

Local weather is one of the most underrated variables in Homekit automation. Over the past few years, I’ve used sensors for everything from knowing when to drip faucets in freezing weather to adjusting the sprinkler schedule with the Eve Aqua on hot days. The Eve Weather has been part of my setup for a while now, and with its 2024 Matter upgrade from last summer, it’s now even more useful across more platforms. Some of my favorite gear Aqara Smart Lock U50 Upgrade your doors with Apple Home Key

Topics: eve home homekit matter weather

Shop Amazon

In Rare Spasm of Sanity, Pentagon Backtracks on Plan to Scuttle Storm Tracking

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-10 22:40:49

In a stunning reversal, the Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal forecasters—just days before it was set to end. The move follows outcry from meteorologists and public officials blindsided by the planned cancellation at the start of hurricane season. In June, the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) announced it was shutting down the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program by Thursday, July 31. DMSP w

Topics: data dmsp hurricane program weather

Shop Amazon

Pixel Weather’s AI-powered forecasts expand beyond the Pixel 9 series

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-19 12:58:11

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s new Pixel Weather app launched last year with the Pixel 9 series. While Pixel Weather availability has since expanded to other Pixel models, that hasn’t included AI forecasts. Now Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a users with Gemini Nano report that AI forecasts have started working. Almost all of us rely on weather forecasts to help plan our days, and while you’ve got no shortage of weather apps to chose from on Android, Google’s own Pixel Weather has got

Topics: ai google nano pixel weather

Shop Amazon

Floods and Other Disasters Kill More People at Night, but Not for the Reasons You Think

gizmodo.com Kate Yoder 2025-12-20 18:00:19

It was 4 a.m. on July 4 at Camp La Junta in Kerr County when Kolton Taylor woke up to the sound of screaming. The 12-year-old boy stepped out of bed and straight into knee-deep floodwaters from the nearby Guadalupe River. Before long, the water had already risen to his waist. In the darkness, he managed to feel for his tennis shoes floating nearby, put them on, and escape to the safety of the hillside. All 400 people at the all-boys camp survived, even as they watched one of their cabins float a

Topics: floods night people said weather

Shop Amazon

A Sweltering Heat Dome Is Pummeling the Middle of the US. Here's What That Means

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 12:15:04

You've probably heard of the heat index, and you might be aware of the National Weather Service's HeatRisk tool, but do you know what a heat dome is? If not, it's the perfect time to learn -- nearly a third of the US is about to be exposed to temperatures above 100 degrees because of one. The NWS has issued a bulletin warning that 100-degree temperatures will likely hit residents in the middle of the US today. The cause for that thermometer spike is a growing heat dome in the Mississippi Valley

Topics: dome domes heat temperatures weather

Shop Amazon

Google rolls back Pixel’s controversial At a Glance change in Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-06 11:22:18

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google has restored colorful weather icons to Pixel’s At a Glance widget in Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3. The earlier all-white icon design faced criticism for reducing readability. The update also includes larger weather text and various other Pixel improvements. Google is walking back a recent design change in the Pixel Launcher’s At a Glance widget. With the Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 update, colorful weather icons are returning after the company briefly switche

Topics: android beta glance icons weather

Shop Amazon

Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 04:05:19

wttr.in — the right way to check curl the weather! wttr.in is a console-oriented weather forecast service that supports various information representation methods like terminal-oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients (curl, httpie, or wget), HTML for web browsers, or PNG for graphical viewers. Originally started as a small project, a wrapper for wego, intended to demonstrate the power of the console-oriented services, wttr.in became a popular weather reporting service, handling tens o

Topics: curl format location weather wttr

Shop Amazon

Survey reveals this is everyone’s favorite weather app, by far

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-16 17:34:14

One of the staple apps ever since smartphones came into existence are weather apps. While weather apps have existed for decades, user preferences have changed over the years. The weather apps that we once loved have shuttered, and their place has been taken by newer competitors with their own advantages. In our quest to find the current best weather app, we asked you what weather app you prefer on your phone, and the answer has been overwhelmingly in Pixel Weather‘s favor. With over 47% of the

Topics: app apps phone pixel weather

Shop Amazon

Why the Weather Is Literally Giving You a Headache

gizmodo.com Danielle Wilhour 2026-01-17 06:00:20

If you are one of the 39 million Americans in the U.S. living with migraines, there’s a good chance an intense headache will begin when the weather shifts. You aren’t alone. Studies find 30% to 50% of people with migraines identify some type of weather change as a trigger, making it the most commonly reported migraine source. Yet, it’s also one of the most puzzling. Some people are more sensitive to weather As a neurologist and headache specialist practicing in Colorado, a place with frequent

Topics: changes migraine migraines triggers weather

Shop Amazon

Behold the Closest Images of the Sun Ever Taken

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-18 22:46:53

On Christmas Eve of last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made spaceflight history, flying by the Sun at a record-setting distance of just 3.8 million miles (6.12 million kilometers) from the solar surface. During its flyby, Parker snapped some amazing close-up images of the Sun, which NASA finally released to the public yesterday. The images, captured by the probe’s Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR, present an extraordinary view of the Sun’s corona, buffeted by raging solar winds. T

Topics: nasa parker probe solar weather

Shop Amazon

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats

wired.com David Gilbert 2026-01-25 22:01:12

On Sunday afternoon, Michael Meyer, the founder of anti-government extremist group Veterans on Patrol, posted a warning on his Telegram channel. “Due to the recent weather weapon deployed against Texas, which resulted in a high number of child murders, efforts to eliminate this military treason are being escalated,” Meyer, who is commonly known as Lewis Arthur, wrote. Hours later, a man broke into an enclosure containing the NextGen Live Radar system operated by News 9 in Oklahoma City, damagi

Topics: meyer radar tells weather wired

Shop Amazon

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Going After ‘Chemtrails’ With New Bill to Ban Weather Modification

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-28 09:36:36

House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the latest lawmaker to seemingly go after the fictional threat of chemtrails. Over the weekend, Greene stated she will soon introduce a federal bill aimed at banning substances from being injected into the atmosphere. Greene announced the proposed bill in an X post published Saturday. The legislation would reportedly bar chemicals from being released into the air for the “express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight

Topics: chemtrails cloud geoengineering greene weather

Shop Amazon

Ted Cruz Denies Flash Flooding in Texas Was Caused by Weather Manipulation

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-29 03:10:08

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, participated in a press conference Monday with local officials to discuss the severe flooding that’s killed at least 90 people in the state, including children at an all-girls summer camp, with dozens of people still missing. It’s a horrible tragedy but people online are suggesting without evidence that the floods are actually part of some nefarious and deliberate conspiracy to kill people. Cruz was asked by a reporter Monday about conspiracy theories tha

Topics: conspiracy cruz like people weather

Shop Amazon

What Is a Heat Dome? All About the Weather Phenomenon Making Things Hotter

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-30 17:03:03

It's been a hot summer already. As much as the heat in upstate New York has me cooped up inside with the air conditioner blasting, it's nothing compared to other parts of the US being impacted by one of the summer's freakiest weather patterns: the heat dome. If that's a new phrase to you, keep reading and I'll break down what a heat dome is and what causes it, and for more help, read CNET's list of hacks for keeping your home cool in the summer. What's a heat dome? Think of a heat dome as sim

Topics: dome domes heat high weather

Shop Amazon

You Can Still See the Aurora Borealis Tonight. Here's Where the Brightest Lights Will Glow

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-06 08:45:03

The Fourth of July holiday will bring explosive light shows on Friday night, but many folks will see much quieter and calmer lights in the sky tonight, as recent solar activity will continue to bring the Aurora Borealis to several US states. Wednesday night marks the winding down of a Kp 4 magnetic storm that the Space Weather Prediction Center reported starting late Monday evening. The K-Index measures the horizontal impact of geomagnetic storms, and a Kp4 or Kp 5 rating results in what the Na

Topics: aurora lights northern space weather

Shop Amazon

Aurora Borealis May Hit These 16 States Over the Next 2 Days

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-08 17:09:00

Alongside fireworks and drone shows, people will have another excuse to look up at the sky this week, at least in select parts of the US. The sun has graced Earth with another round of solar material, which will interact with our atmosphere and make sections of the sky glow. Of course, we're talking about the aurora borealis, and it'll be visible in 16 states on Tuesday and Wednesday night. Of the two days, Tuesday night into Wednesday morning will be your best shot. The Space Weather Predictio

Topics: aurora night northern space weather

Shop Amazon

What's a Heat Dome? The Scary Weather Phenomenon Is Making Things Hotter

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-10 21:59:00

It's been a hot summer for a lot of areas already. As much as the heat here in upstate New York has me cooped up inside with the air conditioner blasting, it's nothing compared to other parts of the US now impacted by one of the summer's freakiest weather patterns: the heat dome. If that's a new phrase to you, keep reading and I'll break down what a heat dome is and what causes it, and for more help, read CNET's list of hacks for keeping your home cool in the summer. What is a heat dome? Thin

Topics: dome domes heat high weather

Shop Amazon

These are the 5 weather apps I recommend, but one of them stands out from the rest

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-13 10:00:24

Ryan Haines / Android Authority It’s safe to say that more or less every Android user has a weather app installed on their phone. I certainly do, and I use it daily to check the weather, not only for today but for the rest of the week as well — it’s part of my morning routine. In my search for the perfect weather app, I tried countless options and can tell you there are significant differences between them. Some were loaded with ads and pop-ups, while others were poorly designed. Then there we

Topics: android app like use weather

Shop Amazon

The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long

wired.com Umair Irfan 2026-02-13 03:00:00

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Globally, humanity is producing more food than ever, but that harvest is concentrated in just a handful of breadbaskets. More than one-third of the world’s wheat and barley exports come from Ukraine and Russia, for example. Some of these highly productive farmlands, including major crop-growing regions in the United States, are on track to see the sharpest drops in harvests due to climate change. That’s bad n

Topics: climate crop food weather world

Shop Amazon

What Is a Heat Dome? The Scary Weather Phenomenon Returns to Kick Off Summer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 12:04:00

It's a hot one out east where I live and has been for a few days. As much as the heat here in upstate New York has me cooped up inside with the air conditioner blasting, it's nothing compared to other parts of the US now impacted by one of the summer's freakiest weather patterns: the heat dome. If that's a new phrase to you, keep reading and I'll break down what a heat dome is and what causes it, and for more help, read CNET's list of hacks for keeping your home cool in the summer. What is a h

Topics: dome domes heat high weather

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

Google is phasing out one of its staple Wear OS apps

Google is expanding the Pixel Weather app to Wear OS

Google’s AI Weather Model Nailed Its First Major Storm Forecast

This new Pixel 10 feature makes weather reports even more personal, but not for everyone

XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites

Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

UK government advises deleting emails to save water

Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

Show HN: Print the daily weather forecast on a thermal receipt printer

HomeKit Weekly: Tracking local weather in HomeKit is simple with the Eve Weather

In Rare Spasm of Sanity, Pentagon Backtracks on Plan to Scuttle Storm Tracking

Pixel Weather’s AI-powered forecasts expand beyond the Pixel 9 series

Floods and Other Disasters Kill More People at Night, but Not for the Reasons You Think

A Sweltering Heat Dome Is Pummeling the Middle of the US. Here's What That Means

Google rolls back Pixel’s controversial At a Glance change in Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3

Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service

Survey reveals this is everyone’s favorite weather app, by far

Why the Weather Is Literally Giving You a Headache

Behold the Closest Images of the Sun Ever Taken

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Going After ‘Chemtrails’ With New Bill to Ban Weather Modification

Ted Cruz Denies Flash Flooding in Texas Was Caused by Weather Manipulation

What Is a Heat Dome? All About the Weather Phenomenon Making Things Hotter

You Can Still See the Aurora Borealis Tonight. Here's Where the Brightest Lights Will Glow

Aurora Borealis May Hit These 16 States Over the Next 2 Days

What's a Heat Dome? The Scary Weather Phenomenon Is Making Things Hotter

These are the 5 weather apps I recommend, but one of them stands out from the rest

The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long

What Is a Heat Dome? The Scary Weather Phenomenon Returns to Kick Off Summer

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising