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A Star Fox Remake Is Heading To Switch 2 On June 25

Nintendo Nintendo held a last-minute Star Fox Direct live stream on May 6 to reveal Star Fox, a remake of the N64 classic coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s due to…

Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that…

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom

Lachy Groom, one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched solo investors, decided to back Indian startup Pronto just 20 minutes into his first meeting with its 24-year-old founder. The meeting, which took place in February through a mutual connection, led…

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of users under the age of…

Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones

Wedges made of limb bones may have been used for splitting soft, copper-bearing rock O. Zagorodnia Even with the technology to make metal tools, people in Bronze Age Britain still used animal bone tools alongside metal ones to obtain copper,…

The world’s largest explosion lab is ready for big booms. And yes, it’s in Texas.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Everything is bigger in Texas, and that includes its controlled detonations. Texas A&M University recently revealed what they say is the world’s largest controlled…

New AI method tackles one of science’s hardest math problems

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have introduced a new way to use artificial intelligence to tackle one of the most difficult challenges in mathematics: inverse partial differential equations (PDEs). These equations are essential for understanding complex systems, but solving…

Chrome Downloads A 4GB AI File Without User Consent, Researcher Alleges

If you’ve paid any attention to Google lately, you know that it wants us using its AI tools. So much so that Chrome apparently downloads a 4GB file containing details for running Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device LLM. Computer scientist Alexander…

Blink bumps its budget buzzer to 2K

The wired version is Blink’s first wired-only buzzer and its first not to require a Blink Sync Module (although it can work with one). Previous Blink doorbells relied on the small hub, and could be wired or run on lithium…

reMarkable’s new Paper Pure tablet goes back to basics with a monochrome screen

After exploring the bigger market for productivity tablets featuring color displays with the Paper Pro and the smaller Paper Pro Move, E Ink tablet maker reMarkable is returning to its roots with a new monochrome device called the Paper Pure….