“Some people didn’t receive it at all. Some people received it multiple times. Some people had their phone on silent and only heard a vibration. Other people didn’t hear anything at all,” a FEMA official explained.
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Hackers are selling Alaska Air, other airline miles for cheap on the dark web
A tech writer’s leading theory is that hackers are stealing the miles through phishing emails or through wholesale data breaches.
A federal plan to save Alaska’s belugas starts with recruiting an army to count them
An army of citizen scientists assembled along Turnagain Arm Saturday to count endangered belugas near Anchorage.
Advertising on Facebook: Is it worth it?
A lawsuit says Facebook is misleading advertisers about just how effective it is. Facebook, which makes billions from ads, says it can’t guarantee that all of them will reach their intended targets.
Drone survey underway to gauge Unalaska’s salmon populations
The goal is to estimate the size of the island’s largely unmonitored fish populations.
In the air with NASA: studying environmental change from 40,000 feet
There’s a whole host of environmental changes the project is examining, like the severity and frequency of forest fires, insect activity and wildlife migration.