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Housing market shift: Where home prices are starting to fall

Fast Company Tech

Among those same 384 metro-area housing markets, these 10 metros saw the biggest year-over-year home price decline in 2024: Punta Gorda, Florida: -8.6% Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida: -7.6% North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida: -4.7% Homosassa Springs, Florida: -3.3% Sebastian-Vero Beach, Florida: -3.2%

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A 75-year-old ship will be sunk off Florida’s coast to make the world’s largest artificial reef

Fast Company Tech

The coast of Florida is about to be home to the worlds largest-ever artificial reef, and its going to be made out of a 75-year-old, 1,000-foot-long ship. Other ship-turned-reef projects, like the USS Oriskany, which was sunk in 2006 near Pensacola, Florida, have proven successful over time.

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People in Florida Say Dense, Mysterious Fog With Chemical Smell Is Making Them Sick

Futurism

Down in Florida, residents have been haunted by a strange specter: alingering and super-dense fog that allegedly smells like chemicalsand is making people sick. Geo-engineered weather modification nano-particle toxic fog here in Florida," a user on X-formerly-Twitter wrote in Januar y. " You can only see it with a flashlight."

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SpaceX Cargo Dragon splashes down safely off the coast of Florida

Digital Trends

An uncrewed SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule carrying research on a return journey from the International Space Station has splashed down off the coast of Florida.

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Drones are biting back against Florida's mosquito problem

TechSpot

One of these is Broward County, Florida, which is using drones. A known vector for spreading diseases such as malaria, dengue, West Nile, yellow fever and Zika, mosquitoes are more than just blood-sucking irritants. Some regions of the US are turning to modern technology in their fight against the problem. Read Entire Article

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A hacker tried to poison a Florida city's water supply

TechSpot

According to Reuters, someone gained remote access to TeamViewer on an employee’s computer at the facility in Oldsmar, Florida, located about 25 minutes north of Tampa, on Friday. The worker saw a popup window informing them of the intrusion before the mouse pointer started moving around the screen and opening.

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Florida judge finds Tesla, Elon Musk knew of defective Autopilot system

TechCrunch

There is “reasonable evidence” to conclude that Tesla and its officers, including CEO Elon Musk, knew its vehicles had defective Autopilot systems but still allowed the cars to be driven in areas “not safe for that technology,” a Florida judge found. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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