It appears a computer glitch caused the fireworks mishap that disappointed thousands of people camped out to watch the Big Bay Boom in San Diego Bay Wednesday night. The New Jersey-based company ...

Few of the 4 billion spectators dazzled by last Friday's opening ceremony would have been aware that the spectacular 'giant footprint' fireworks seen in the live broadcast were composed with computer ...

Officials in Coralville are blaming a computer glitch for premature explosions that cut short the city's annual Fourth of July show.The Iowa City Press-Citizen ...

It all went off at once, just minutes before the actual show was due to start. Several barges full of fireworks exploded, lighting up the sky in downtown San Diego and setting off car alarms downtown.

A corrupted computer file is to blame for the three-minute delay to Monday night’s start of the fireworks show at the Space Needle. Two technicians had to press buttons to manually set off about 5,000 ...

The Fourth of July is synonymous with fireworks displays, but before all the bright colors and thunderous booms, scientists are hard at work behind the scenes making each firework display its best.

NBC's coverage of the opening ceremonies for this summer's Beijing Olympics drew record ratings for any games held outside the U.S., as an estimated 69.9 million American viewers tuned in. But during ...

Zap a mass of supercooled atoms with a magnetic field and you'll see "quantum fireworks" — jets of atoms firing off in apparently random directions. Researchers discovered this back in 2017, and they ...

A computer glitch led to a delayed fireworks show at the Seattle Center on Monday night as partiers waited to ring in the new year. The show started on time at 11:59, said Mary Bacarella, spokeswoman ...