Visitors can enjoy trail-walking, diving, cycling, football and sand volleyball as well as paragliding or hand-gliding, which takes off from Pedra da Gavea. Then there is the famous Carnival ...

LED light wands, or light sticks, provide an effective (and relatively affordable) alternative to a photographer’s flashgun or a videomaker’s stand-mounted lamp. You don’t need to sync a light wand ...

Sensify is a new technology that can turn Zigbee switches, bulbs, and plugs into sensors with a firmware update. This could be how Philips Hue will bring ambient sensing to its smart lights.

Normally, when a sequel is announced that’s a wild departure from the original, I welcome it with open arms – look no further than my inexplicable but everlasting love of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts ...

A ground-based observing facility tasked with recording the flare of the northern lights has captured images of an inexplicable pale grey glow amid the streaks of green and red, providing researchers ...

SINGAPORE – Light To Night Singapore, the marquee event of Singapore Art Week, returns to the Civic District from Jan 17 to Feb 6. Themed “Do You See Me?”, the 2025 edition of the well-loved ...

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Luckily, garden centre benches are groaning under the weight of small pots of forced bulbs that are about to burst into flower, and they’ll propel your garden straight into spring in an instant.

Coors Light has announced an apparent name change following what now appears to have been a viral marketing stunt earlier this week. The brand announced Wednesday that it is temporarily changing ...

There’s no better example of having a case of Mondays than the day after the Super Bowl. Coors Light announced Wednesday that it’s temporarily changing its name to “Mondays Light” in an ...

SINGAPORE – All eight crew members of a Malaysia-registered tanker that sank in Singapore territorial waters off Pedra Branca have been rescued, said the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore ...

SINGAPRE: All crew members of a Malaysia-registered tanker were rescued after the ship sank in Singapore's territorial waters off Pedra Branca on Sunday (Jan 12). The Maritime and Port Authority ...