CHICAGO (WGN) – This week marks the 30th anniversary of the devastating Chicago Heat Wave of 1995. Over 700 people died in the oppressive heat that year. WGN-TV’s Mike Lowe spoke with former WGN-TV ...

Google Wave is dead, long live Google Wave? Shortly after the company announced that it was mothballing the Wave platform, the company is now pushing “Wave in a Box,” as an open source second try for ...

Nearly one year after the heat crisis in the Pacific Northwest, emergency managers, doctors and even transit systems in the area say they are using lessons learned to prepare for this summer. The city ...

There was lots of promise -- Email is an ancient technology, and is due for a refresh. Google Wave promised to change the way we communicate, and would eventually replace Email. Unfortunately, Google ...

My goal in life is to work a job that I love. To try to achieve this goal, my love of surfing influenced me to build my startup in the action sports market. I figured that my familiarity with the ...

For better or worse, this heat wave is forcing Washington to recognize and confront the impacts of climate change. Last year’s “heat dome,” while jarring and traumatic for many, was an exceptional ...

Given what the world now knows about the coronavirus from the (ongoing) first wave, it’s vital that policymakers draw certain lessons from the (mis)handling of the first wave. Such lessons can help ...

It’s not often Google admits one of its products is a complete failure, so the internet industry was shocked yesterday when the search giant said it will be shutting down the Google Wave platform by ...