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Several Overwatch Heroes Are About To Hit Fortnite

Epic Games Months after leaks indicated as such, Epic Games has finally confirmed that several Overwatch characters are coming to Fortnite as skins. Mercy, Tracer, Genji and a mech-less D.va will all drop…

Swatch’s latest luxury collaboration is a $400 pocket watch

Depending on the size, features, and finish, Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak watches can range in price from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Audemars Piguet x Swatch Royal Pop pocket watches will be far more affordable…

Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves

For years, AI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves better than humans could. With investors pouring money into a new generation of research-driven AI labs, there are more resources than ever available…

Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare Andes Hantavirus

As passengers return to the US from the cruise that saw a rare hantavirus outbreak, much of the country is lacking a basic public health tool: a test to diagnose the illness in the earliest stages of infection. Nebraska may…

Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests

A logging yard in the Amazon rainforest Tarcisio Schnaider/Getty Images In 1986, an energy CEO heard a briefing about climate change and felt guilty that his company was building a coal-fired power plant in Connecticut. The company eventually paid to…

Almost half of everything orbiting Earth is space junk

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Nearly half of all known objects currently orbiting Earth technically classify as space junk, but the true amount may be even higher. Not only…

A rare cancer-fighting plant compound has been decoded

Researchers at UBC Okanagan have uncovered the process plants use to create mitraphylline, a rare natural compound that has attracted attention for its possible cancer fighting properties. Mitraphylline belongs to a unique class of plant chemicals known as spirooxindole alkaloids….

Family Sues OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Advice Led To Accidental Overdose

OpenAI is facing another wrongful death lawsuit. Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that it designed and distributed a “defective product” that led to the death of their son Sam Nelson from an accidental overdose….

Sony’s new Xperia phone gets an overdue redesign

Sony’s Xperia 1 flagships have looked more or less the same since 2020, but that’s finally changing with the Xperia 1 VIII, which moves to a chunky square camera island. The phone also boasts what should be a substantially improved…

Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea

Neil Batlivala has spent seven years building a healthcare company that most of the tech industry has never heard of and that serves a patient population most of Silicon Valley ignores. But last month, that work put him at the…