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Samsung teases mobile AI photography tools ahead of Unpacked

Anyone who’s been paying even a little bit of attention to tech news lately could have made a reasonable guess that AI will be a big topic at Samsung’s Unpacked next week. Ahead of the event, Samsung teased some of…

Piggyback’s fantastic Metroid Prime art book is nearly 20 percent off

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond launched on the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 in December, but if you’re itching for some more lore, Metroid Prime 1–3: A Visual Retrospective is a nice way to dig in, especially now that it’s on…

Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use

An internal research study at Meta dubbed “Project MYST” created in partnership with the University of Chicago, found that parental supervision and controls — such as time limits and restricted access — had little impact on kids’ compulsive use of…

Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents

Every day, people log into an online forum for current and former Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers to share their thoughts on the news of the day and complain about their colleagues in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “ERO is…

The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in a dexterous combination of speed…

Inside the Colosseum’s Passage of Commodus, where emperors once walked

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. They say all roads lead to Rome. But in the Eternal City, all of the major roads were thought to lead somewhere very specific—a…

Toxic metals found in bananas after Brazil mining disaster

Researchers in soil science, environmental engineering, and public health from the University of São Paulo (USP), the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Brazil, and the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain investigated whether crops grown near the…

EU launches second investigation into Grok’s nonconsensual image generation

X is facing yet another investigation into Grok’s reported creation of nonconsensual sexual images on the platform. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced an inquiry into X regarding the harmful, intimate images and processing of EU and EEA individuals’…

Samsung is slopping AI ads all over its social channels

After cramming AI into every inch of its smartphones, appliances, and other devices, Samsung is now increasingly slapping it across social media. Several videos posted to the company’s YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok accounts in recent weeks were made or edited…

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models

Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit. The models, dubbed Tiny Aya, are open-weight — meaning their underlying code is publicly available for anyone to use and…