California air quality is always changing. People hear "air quality alert" and think it is just another notification, until the air tastes dry, your throat feels scratchy, and the sky looks washed out ...

P95 and N95 are rating classifiers for masks manufactured to keep people from inhaling dust and other small particles in unsafe environments.

The Games section is one of the highlights of reading The New York Times, and Wordle has been one of the crowning successes for the team since acquiring it in 2022. Now, fans of the popular word game ...

Challenge or annoy your friends and family with custom 4-7 letter puzzles. Challenge or annoy your friends and family with custom 4-7 letter puzzles. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, ...

The world of Wordle is expanding: The New York Times Games is launching a “Create Your Wordle Puzzle” feature that will allow users to go beyond just playing the popular word game, and instead develop ...

People often repeat unhelpful thinking patterns, or "loops." Use ChatGPT to identify invisible habits by analyzing emotional triggers, decision-making styles, and self-limiting beliefs. By making ...

A county in California wine country is beefing up its vaccine recommendations and instituting a mask mandate, citing "greater risk" of contracting COVID-19 amid the start of the annual flu season. The ...

Thanks to Android being open-source, there's a myriad of widgets available on the Google Play Store. Widgets are small tools or applications that can be added to your Home screen to perform certain ...

The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke. The U.S. Forest ...

U.S. Forest Service firefighter Alan Gudino, right, shields his face while battling the Madre fire in San Luis Obispo County in July. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) The U.S. Forest Service has ...

A recent New York Times investigation found many wildfire fighters are getting cancer, cardiovascular diseases and some have even died because of the toxic smoke they inhaled while on the job.

Chipotle has a new meal deal that lets you and your family or friends build your own burritos. The restaurant chain has a new “Build-Your-Own Chipotle” offering that serves four to six people and ...