Engadget

Akai just released a portable and relatively budget-friendly MPC sampler

Akai just revealed specs and other details about the MPC Sample after teasing the gadget earlier this month. This is a portable sampler and groovebox that looks eerily similar to Teenage Engineering's ...
Los Angeles Times

California’s most remote lighthouse reopens to the public

NORTH WEST SEAL ROCK, Pacific Ocean — The lighthouse stands atop a sheer rock surrounded by nothing but the cold, churning Pacific, six miles off the foggy coast of Del Norte County. It can be ...
Variety

Whalar Group Launches Lighthouse Studios to Build a TV-Like Schedule of Creator Content, Sets Joint Venture With Cole Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade

Whalar Group, a growing player in talent representation for the creator economy, is taking a big swing at building a network TV-like weekly schedule of creator-led series. The company has launched ...
The Clarion-Ledger

Mississippi has 2 lighthouses still standing. Here's where to see them

Visitors to the Gulf Coast can make memories visiting and snapping photos in front of Mississippi lighthouses. There used to be at least 10 lighthouses that helped keep ships and boats safe at night ...
Seattle Times

Art deco Browns Point Lighthouse illuminates a long, foggy history

WHAT MAY BE THE FIRST documented mention of Browns Point involves a picnic. In 1792, Captain George Vancouver stopped to have lunch on a little tongue of land on his way to Commencement Bay, and many ...
The Verge

Akai is following Teenage Engineering and Casio with a new portable sampler.

Retailer Alto Music has leaked a new portable sampler by Akai that looks inspired by the company’s MPC60 and MPC3000, according to Synth Anatomy. The streamlined $399 Akai MPC Sample will pair 16 pads ...
Phys.org

Microbial assembly line makes plastic upcycling programmable

The team engineered the bacterium Pseudomonas putida to convert polyethylene terephthalate, a main class of single-use plastics found in containers like water bottles, into pyruvate, a molecule that ...
MLive

Keepers wanted at what was Michigan’s loneliest lighthouse. Spend your summer spilling its secrets

GRAND MARAIS, MI -- If you’re someone who loves a good story − we’re talking dramatic backdrop, big action and heroic saves − then you may make a good lighthouse keeper. The Au Sable Light Station in ...
The Business Journals

Cape Cod waterfront hotel sells, ending 88 years of family ownership

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The Lighthouse Inn in the Cape ...
Scientific American

Yellowstone’s earthquakes spark microbial boom deep underground

With some luck, specialized equipment, a supervolcano and a narrow hole 30 stories deep, researchers demonstrated that earthquakes shake up more than just rocks—they also boost microbe populations ...
The Business Journals

167-year-old St. Johns River Lighthouse relocation effort advances with plan to cut structure at ground level

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The 81-foot lighthouse has been ...