A confluence of factors, including warmer-than-average water temperatures, could mean a heightened 2025 hurricane season.

As it moves toward Louisiana, Tropical Storm Francine will be stifled as it is buffeted by an upper-level disturbance. That system is expected to cause "vertical shear," a difference in wind speed ...

Vertical wind shear can keep tropical storms in check, particularly during El Niño years. When El Niño is gone, it’s a different story.

Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a ...

Shear recently made comments about the dangers of AI, ... Key Facts. In 2006, Shear joined childhood friend Justin Kan and two other colleagues to launch the video streaming website Justin.tv, ...

Cofounder of Twitch Emmett Shear speaks in the David Rockwell designed TED Theater at TED2019 - Bigger Than Us on April 18, 2019 in Vancouver, Canada.

Salvaging OpenAI. After leaving Twitch earlier this year to care for his newborn son, Shear takes the reins of a hollowed-out firm that has lost key co-founders, senior employees and is at risk of ...

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, has named former Twitch boss Emmett Shear as its new interim CEO after a chaotic weekend that began with Sam Altman's dramatic ouster.