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(credit: Shutterstock) Google has won an appeal against a €1.5 billion competition fine from the European Commission in a victory for the Big Tech group as it comes under growing scrutiny from Brussels regulators. The EU’s General Court said on…
A recent study published in Psychology & Marketing provides insight into how our internal body clocks, or chronotypes, may influence the happiness we derive from the things we buy. According to the research, individuals who identify as “night owls” tend…
Qubits are the fundamental building blocks of quantum computers — and, when fitted into these machines — rely on the weird laws of quantum mechanics to process calculations in parallel.
Enlarge / The Hummer EV and its gargantuan 205 kWh pack is among the GM EVs that gain access to the Tesla Supercharger network today. (credit: GMC) Starting today, electric vehicles made by General Motors gain access to the Tesla…
An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.
Rare fossils of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis — a 20 foot predator with strange, mushroom-shaped teeth — unearthed in northeastern Texas.
A study of 4- to 5-year-old children in Spain found that participants who were breastfed as infants, for 1 to 8 months, tended to have better cognitive abilities compared to their peers who were not breastfed. These children had higher…
About one in five U.S. kids have obesity. This condition greatly ups their risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and more. Such dangers partially explain doctors’ interest in helping people avoid excessive weight. Lately, many kids and teens…
A recent study published in Science has identified a previously unknown mechanism in the brain that occurs during sleep, helping to reset memory pathways. Researchers found that a burst of neural silence in a specific part of the brain, the…
Enlarge (credit: Memento | Aurich Lawson) Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media networks like X and Facebook these days, we’re seemingly entering a new age of media skepticism: the era of what I’m calling “deep…
Enlarge / iPads running iPadOS 18. (credit: Apple) Apple has temporarily paused the rollout of the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pros. The company has stopped signing the update for these iPads, meaning it will no longer be offered to…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez) AT&T agreed to pay a $13 million fine because it gave customer bill information to a vendor in order to create personalized videos, then allegedly failed to ensure that the vendor destroyed the…
A new study led by researchers from the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research in South Korea and Dartmouth College has revealed that brain activity can predict how people emotionally experience their thoughts. Using brain scans and personalized story narratives, the…
Enlarge / Theory 1 is Lotus’ vision for the future of its cars. (credit: Lotus) Earlier today, Lotus Cars revealed its idea of an “intelligent performance vehicle.” The wedge-shaped concept, called Theory 1, is meant to be Lotus’ new design…
Enlarge / TCL’s C655 Pro TV is advertised as a quantum dot Mini LED TV. (credit: TCL) TCL has come under scrutiny this month after testing that claimed to examine three TCL TVs marketed as quantum dot TVs reportedly showed…
Enlarge / Under C2PA, this stock image would be labeled as a real photograph if the camera used to take it, and the toolchain for retouching it, supported the C2PA. But even as a real photo, does it actually represent…
A recent study published in Cureus has shed light on the varied nature of the reliability and reach of YouTube videos related to anorexia nervosa. While videos uploaded by doctors and healthcare organizations are generally seen as trustworthy, the study…
Enlarge / Rendering of an individual crew quarter within the Axiom habitat module. (credit: Axiom Space) Axiom Space is facing significant financial headwinds as the company attempts to deliver on two key commercial programs for NASA—the development of a private…
Enlarge / There are much more inappropriate Final Fantasy PC mods out there, but few we are willing to show in an article like this. (credit: Nexus Mods) Final Fantasy XVI finally arrives on Windows PCs today, over a year…
Enlarge (credit: via Zynga) Zynga must pay IBM nearly $45 million in damages after a jury ruled that popular games in its FarmVille series, as well as individual hits like Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells, infringed on two early IBM patents.…
Switzerland is often cited in discussions about gun violence in the United States, with proponents of gun rights pointing out that the Swiss have relatively high gun ownership but very low rates of homicide and virtually no mass shootings. This…
Enlarge / Russia President Vladimir Putin presents flowers to editor-in-chief of Russian broadcaster RT Margarita Simonyan after awarding her with the “Order of Alexander Nevsky” during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 23, 2019. (credit: Getty Images…
Enlarge / An ambulance arrives at the site after wireless communication devices known as pagers exploded in Sidon, Lebanon, on September 17, 2024. (credit: Ahmad Kaddoura/Anadolu via Getty Images) A massive wave of pager explosions across Lebanon and Syria around…
The ring could be responsible for a prolonged drop in temperatures millions of years ago.
Enlarge / Imagine owning one of those funky birds as an NFT! (credit: Flappy Bird Twitter/X) Fans of ultra-viral mobile gaming hit Flappy Bird who were stunned by the game’s sudden removal from the iOS App Store 10 years ago…
A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.
Video of cell division occurring in a developing fly embryo named winner of the 14th annual Nikon Small World in Motion competition.
A study conducted with German university students found that while using ChatGPT to search for information on a scientific topic made their work easier, it also led to more superficial results. Students using ChatGPT reported lower mental effort, or cognitive…
Enlarge / Portion of a reproduction of cave paintings in France, showing rhinos (among other species). (credit: JEFF PACHOUD) For most people, an extinct species is an abstraction, a set of bones they might have seen on display in a…
Enlarge / Lane keeping systems let you take your hands off the wheel while you drive. (credit: Getty Images) The seductive lure of cars that drive themselves has led to an awful lot of hype over the past decade. Not…
Enlarge / Many have seen a reflection of Vincent van Gogh’s inner turmoil in the swirling vortices of The Starry Night. (credit: Public doman) Vincent van Gogh’s most famous painting is The Starry Night (1889), created (along with several other…
Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.
Enlarge / Amazon fulfillment center in Las Vegas, Nevada. (credit: Getty Images | 4kodiak) Amazon has told staff they must return to the office five days a week from the start of next year, one of the strictest corporate crackdowns…
From disaster recovery to conservation and healthcare, plenty of AI projects will greatly benefit humanity, Microsoft experts Juan M. Lavista Ferres and William B. Weeks say.
A recent study published in Public Opinion Quarterly suggests that the skepticism surrounding mail-in voting, heavily popularized during Donald Trump’s 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, may have influenced Canadians’ attitudes toward their own mail-in voting process. Researchers found that Canadians with…
With explosive bursts of pollen, male Hypenea macrantha flowers knock some competitors’ deposits off hummingbird beaks before the birds reach females.
Check out some of the best photos from 2024’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition.
Astronomers have gotten the first-ever detailed views of turbulent activity on a star other than our own sun.
Recreational cannabis laws are associated with a 20% increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) incidents, as published in Economics & Human Biology. Cannabis has been at the center of public policy debates, especially after several states in the U.S. began…
Tiny as they are, paper cuts can cause real pain. It’s common to get a minor cut while flipping through a magazine or book. But tissue paper is not likely to draw blood. Now, scientists have explained the physics behind…
NASA’s most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power.
Researchers have long been intrigued by ketamine’s ability to alter consciousness and its potential therapeutic uses, particularly in treating mood disorders. A recent study published in Translational Psychiatry adds a new layer to this understanding by investigating how ketamine impacts…
Enlarge / iOS 18’s home screen color tinting and grid-based app icons in action. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apart from the much-ballyhooed (and delayed) Apple Intelligence, a big change to home screen customization and app icon placement is one of iOS…
In 2011, a ghostly depression, known as “the mitten,” appeared on the surface of and ice sheet in Greenland after the unprecedented collapse of a concealed subglacial lake.
Enlarge / The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees near The Trail of 100 Giants overnight in Sequoia National Forest on September 21, 2021, near California Hot Springs, California. (credit: David McNew/Getty Images) Space…
Enlarge / The Fifty-Eight holes board from Çapmalı. (credit: W. Crist et al., 2024) An ancient board game known as Hounds and Jackals has long been believed to have originated in Egypt. However, according to a paper published in the…
Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images) OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and…
Enlarge / Andrew J. Pincus, attorney for TikTok and ByteDance, leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman US Court House with members of his legal team as the U.S. Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in the case TikTok Inc. v. Merrick…
Enlarge / A recall notice is posted next to Boar’s Head meats that are displayed at a Safeway store on July 31, 2024, in San Rafael, California. (credit: Getty | Justin Sullivan) The Boar’s Head deli-meat plant at the epicenter…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A supply chain failure that compromises Secure Boot protections on computing devices from across the device-making industry extends to a much larger number of models than previously known, including those used in ATMs, point-of-sale terminals, and…
