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But at stake is whether places like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Salt Lake City, San Francisco or Los Angeles might be forced to shut down after a direct hit — and for how long.

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A federal study last year found that a quarter of the buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area would be significantly damaged after a magnitude-7 earthquake, a disaster that would be compounded by the fact that nine out of every 10 commercial buildings and eight out of 10 homes in California are not insured for earthquakes.

What about fashion decisions? Will we trust our AIs to choose our clothes? Seems unlikely, until you consider that AIs can track eye movement as we window-shop, listen to our daily conversations to understand likes and dislikes, and scan our social feeds to understand our fashion preferences as well as those of our friends. With that level of detail, Fashion JARVIS will do a pretty accurate job of selecting our clothing—no advertising required.

Final Thoughts

In the next decade, expect advertising to get far more personalized—learning from an explosion of layered data and expanding into new surfaces of our digitally superimposed world.

Add another giant bug to the list of things Washington state is working to handle right now.

Earlier this week, scientists said they had spotted Asian giant hornets in the state — and it’s still unknown how they got there.

Now there’s another threat: a non-native gypsy moth.

What if we built a space megastructure bigger that the Sun?

A new oversight board will govern Facebook content in an attempt to decentralize its policing of user posts. But is it just cover for further censorship?

Two Chinese boys dropped dead within a week of one another while wearing face masks during gym class, according to a report.

The students, who were both 14, were each running laps for a physical examination test when they suddenly collapsed on the track, Australian outlet 7News reported.

One of the teens was only minutes into his gym class when he fell backward April 24 at Dancheng Caiyuan Middle School in Henan province, according to the outlet.

After a mild winter, snow is coming to many parts of the U.S. The incoming polar vortex could set record low temperatures and high snowfalls for May.

Could a sea creature with unusual regenerative powers show humans how to do the same? Tracey Logan reports.

A new scheme for cooling ${}^{87}$Rb to Bose-Einstein condensation uses only lasers, unlike the usual method combining laser and evaporation cooling.