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Android XR Is Finally Starting To Feel Real

Last year at Google I/O, we got a promising, if frustratingly limited, look at Android XR. At this year’s event, the company confirmed that the first glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster are finally coming later this year. Those…

Wear OS 7 will keep track of deliveries and sports scores on your wrist

Amid the flurry of today’s Google I/O announcements, Google shared details about Wear OS 7, the next major update to its smartwatch platform. To help you keep track of things like deliveries and sports scores, Wear OS 7 will get…

Google just declared itself a contender in AI design at IO 2026

Google announced at its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday that it’s launching Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation app for Google Workspace. The tech giant says it designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to…

California’s Wildfire Season Is Already Overactive

It’s May, but California is already getting a taste of what peak fire season could look like, as out-of-control blazes pose a danger to infrastructure and some of the most threatened trees on the planet. A combination of high winds…

TRAPPIST-1e: The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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Newly discovered spider has happy face on its back

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The happy-face spider (Theridion grallator) is famous for the particularly cheery looking patterns on top of its abdomen. Ecologists in Hawaii first described the…

Hidden earthquake faults beneath Seattle may be more dangerous than expected

Seattle is best known for the earthquake danger posed by the massive Cascadia subduction zone offshore. But researchers say another threat lies much closer to the city itself. A new study published in GSA Bulletin examines a complicated system of…

Nintendo’s Wacky New Mobile Game Takes Inspiration From WarioWare

The free-to-download Pictonico! turns photos into minigames. Nintendo just announced an upcoming mobile game that should please fans of stuff like WarioWare. Pictonico! is a free-to-download title that’ll be available for both iOS and Android on May 28. It looks…

Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations

Anker’s Solix S2000 solves two major pain points with power stations: idle power draw that can leave a battery unexpectedly dead, and the large footprint required to hold so much energy. Impressively, it achieves this at an incredibly low introductory…

Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had

Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He was just 18 when he launched his first startup, building machine learning models for sports betting. “I’ve always been drawn to solving difficult data problems,” he…