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Bay Area hills wake up in white: Snow crowns Mount Diablo range amid cold snap
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (155+ words) A cold February storm turned the familiar brown ridgelines of the Mount Diablo range white Wednesday, dusting higher elevations east of Oakland and San Jose with a rare coating of snow. The snowfall, visible from communities including Pleasanton, followed overnight…...
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li’s startup World Labs raises $1 billion
8+ hour, 32+ min ago (224+ words) By Alicia Tang, Bloomberg World Labs, a startup from artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in a new round of funding to pursue a novel approach to AI development. Autodesk Inc. invested $200 million in World Labs as part of…...
Midpen conducts pile burns to improve Sierra Azul fire resiliency
10+ hour, 31+ min ago (439+ words) The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District will be burning vegetation in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve through mid-March to improve fire resiliency. The district is conducting about 50 pile burns to reduce combustible vegetation without having to haul material offsite....
Vonn, Shiffrin and Brignone among the Olympic skiers voicing concern over receding glaciers
12+ hour, 26+ min ago (915+ words) The world's top skiers train on glaciers because of the high-quality snow there, and a warming world jeopardizes the future of their sport. Vonn started skiing on glaciers in Austria when she was just 9 years old. As athletes in snow…...
To aficionados, fungi are freaky, mystical and overlooked. They’re helping scientists learn more
16+ hour, 30+ min ago (932+ words) By DORANY PINEDA, Associated Press ANGWIN " Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump " a rare and little-known yellow mushroom found, so far, only along North America's Western…...
Google Gemini, Apple add music-focused generative AI features
16+ hour, 32+ min ago (225+ words) By Natalie Lung, Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.s Google and Apple Inc. are adding music-focused generative artificial intelligence features to their core consumer apps, underscoring how advanced AI tools are moving into mainstream use. Its popular image-creation model,Nano Banana, will…...
Thunderstorms with pea-sized hail in Northern California Tuesday — gusts up to 40 mph
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (512+ words) Marin Coastal Range, Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore and North Bay Interior Valleys as well as San Francisco County are under a weather alert for strong thunderstorms by t" Marin Coastal Range, Coastal North Bay including Point…...
Update: High surf advisory in place for Bay Area Shorelines until Friday morning — waves of 18 to 22 feet possible
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (215+ words) Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Northern Monterey Bay and Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast as well as San Francisco County are inclu" Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore, San…...
Update: Cold weather advisory for Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose for Wednesday
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (179+ words) Cold weather advisory for Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose for Wednesday'The Mercury News Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose are included in an updated cold weather advisory released by the National…...
Weather alert for showers in Northern California Tuesday midday — gusts up to 40 mph
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (157+ words) Northern California is included in a report for showers by the National Weather Service on Tuesday at 11:08 a.m. The alert is in effect until noon. Prepare for pea-sized hail (0.25 inches) and wind gusts of up to 40 mph. Locations impacted by the…...