Business

Amazon’s Alexa is getting a major upgrade for the AI chatbot era

Feb. 26, 2025

Alexa+, Amazon’s revamped version of Alexa was unveiled Wednesday, bringing the popular voice assistant into the artificial intelligence era. The new Alexa is more conversational, can incorporate a user’s personal preferences into answers, and can handle certain tasks on someone’s behalf, like booking concert tickets, Amazon says. The service costs $19.99 per month but will be free for Amazon Prime members, with early access coming next month.

Business

Trump lashes out at the Wall Street Journal after repeated attacks on tariffs

Feb. 26, 2025

President Donald Trump and the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section are fighting over tariff policy – again. Trump railed against a Wednesday editorial in the Journal that said, with some evidence, that auto-heavy Michigan would be hurt by tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico that Trump is once again threatening to impose.

Travel

What it’s like inside the secret World War II tunnels set to become a huge new tourist attraction

Feb. 26, 2025

Behind an unmarked blue door in London’s Chancery Lane, the historic legal district where Charles Dickens once worked as a clerk, CNN puts on a hard hat and high-viz as we embark on an exclusive hour-long tour 30 meters below ground (nearly 100 feet). We’re here to explore a mile-long series of tunnels so clandestine that until 2007 they were protected by the UK’s Official Secrets Act. There’s a literary connection here too, as this subterranean warren is the real-life inspiration for James Bond’s Q Branch — but that’s just one chapter in these tunnels’ storied history.

Travel

Flight passenger says major airline offered thousands of dollars to travelers willing to give up seats

Feb. 26, 2025

A traveler is sharing what appears to be a rare offer from an airline that enticed passengers to give up their seats on a flight. In the "r/delta" Reddit forum, the flyer titled a post, "$2800 to give up your seat." "Never saw an offer go this high. Going from Seattle to Palm Springs last week. Got to the gate and there was chaos," said the post.

Science & Tech

Jeff Bezos announces ‘significant shift’ coming to the Washington Post. A key editor is leaving because of it

Feb. 26, 2025

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced a “significant shift” to the publisher’s opinion page that led David Shipley, the paper’s editorial page editor, to leave the paper. The changes upended precedent and rattled a media company that has already been shaken by years of turmoil and leadership turnover. As part of the overhaul, the Post will publish daily opinion stories on two editorial “pillars”: personal liberties and free markets, Bezos teased in an X post on Wednesday morning after announcing the change in a company-wide email. The Post’s opinion section will cover other subjects, too, Bezos wrote, but “viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.” “I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America,” Bezos wrote. “I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.”

Science & Tech

Moon readies for first cell service amid America's latest private lunar launch

Feb. 26, 2025

Intuitive Machines, the Texas company that returned America to the Moon last year, aims to make a repeat appearance, this time delivering the first cell service to the lunar surface in addition to helping find resources. With two separate private lunar missions on the way right now, Intuitive Machines became the third en route with the launch of its Nova-C lander, named Athena, to the Moon on Wednesday evening.

Weather

Does weather help measles outbreaks spread?

Feb. 26, 2025

An ongoing deadly measles outbreak in Texas began in January after a powerful storm brought snow to the Gulf states, and several recent studies have found that weather can contribute to the spread of the measles virus. According to Texas Health and Human Services, the first cases of measles were reported in school-age children in Gaines County, Texas, on Jan. 23. More than a month later, cases across the Lone Star state have reached nine counties and infected 124 people. Nearly all the cases have been in the South Plains and Panhandle regions. Only five of the patients were vaccinated.

Science & Tech

AI chatbots posing as therapists could have 'dangerous' and violent consequences for patients, experts say

Feb. 26, 2025

Health experts say that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots posing as therapists could cause "serious harm" to struggling people, including adolescents, without the proper safety measures. Christine Yu Moutier, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, told Fox News Digital there are "critical gaps" in research regarding the intended and unintended impacts of AI on suicide risk, mental health and larger human behavior.

Science & Tech

Would you hop on this driverless electric city bus?

Feb. 26, 2025

Could self-driving electric buses be coming to a city near you? Cambridge, U.K., is taking the lead in testing a revolutionary public transit system that could transform urban mobility. The Alexander Dennis Enviro100AEV, equipped with Fusion Processing's cutting-edge CAVstar automated drive system, is poised to change how people move around the city, offering a sustainable and efficient alternative to traditional buses. So, forget what you think you know about public transit. This could be a sneak peek at the future of commuting, potentially disrupting the way we think about public transportation in the U.S. and beyond.

Weather

Chances of 'significant severe weather threat' next week grow across South from Texas to Mississippi

Feb. 26, 2025

The chances of a "significant severe weather threat" in the South next week are continuing to grow just as the U.S. and other nations in the Northern Hemisphere usher in the start of meteorological spring. The FOX Forecast Center is continuing to monitor two separate disturbances that are expected to move across the country, which could produce rounds of severe weather on Sunday, and then again Tuesday and Wednesday. At this time, the FOX Forecast Center said next week’s severe weather threat looks to be more substantial than Sunday's risk. The FOX Forecast Center is tracking a potential return to a more active severe weather pattern this weekend and into next week in the South. (FOX Weather) Sunday’s severe storm threat will take shape as a weak disturbance pushes out of the Rockies and into the Plains. Who Says a Woman Can't Lead a Cargo Team? Who Says a Woman Can't Lead a Cargo Team? SATS Group Cardiologist: The Best Method for a Flat Stomach After 50 (It’s Genius!) Cardiologist: The Best Method for a Flat Stomach After 50 (It’s Genius!) News - Health Best Public Speaking Course for Children (Age 4-14) Best Public Speaking Course for Children (Age 4-14) PlanetSpark As that happens, forecasters say a dryline – a boundary separating a humid air mass from a much drier air mass – will develop and push through portions of Texas and Oklahoma, firing up thunderstorms as it does so. Some of those thunderstorms could turn severe and produce hail and damaging wind gusts. Supercell thunderstorms, strong tornadoes possible next week This graphic shows the severe weather threat on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (FOX Weather) The FOX Forecast Center said another storm system will develop starting on Tuesday across portions of the South, while a new threat of severe weather has emerged on Wednesday, extending from the Southeast up the Interstate 95 corridor on the East Coast into the mid-Atlantic. More than 22 million people from East Texas into the lower and mid-Mississippi Valley will be at risk of severe weather on Tuesday. However, NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has placed portions of East Texas, southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana and western and central Mississippi in a Level 3 out of 5 risk of severe weather on its 5-point severe thunderstorm risk scale. "As the confidence in the overall pattern increases, the confidence for a significant severe weather threat has also increased and 30% severe weather probabilities have been added from East Texas to central Mississippi," the SPC said. Specifics remain uncertain, but forecasters say multiple rounds of severe weather, including the development of supercell thunderstorms and an eventual squall line, could bring all severe weather threats, including strong tornadoes. At this time, it remains uncertain whether the potential severe weather will impact Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans. This graphic shows the severe weather threat on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (FOX Weather) The threat will then shift to the Southeast and mid-Atlantic on Wednesday, but it’s still too early to determine exactly what types of extreme weather are possible. However, the SPC placed portions of six states from Alabama to Virginia in a Level 2 out of 5 threat. Changes to the forecast are likely in the coming days, so be sure to refresh this page often and download the free FOX Weather app for updates. March begins severe weather season in US In the early spring, the jet stream remains quite strong as it begins its northward migration out of the southern U.S. This causes the threat of tornadoes to also spread farther north during March and into April and May. An average of 92 tornadoes occur in the U.S. each March. Although that only ranks as the nation's fifth most active month for twisters, it's more than double February's average tornado count of 44. Average tornadoes by month. 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