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When we cover televisions, we often talk about the most popular 55 and 65-inch versions, but as someone with an 85-inch TV in their guest room, I know the appeal of an oversized screen. Today, I’ve got a deal for you on the larger end of Sony’s Bravia 9 Series screens, with a $900 discount on the 75-inch model, and a massive $1,800 markdown on the 85-inch version.In addition to taking up an entire wall of your living room, these big screens are also super bright, reaching a stated 3,000 nits of peak brightness. Our reviewer Ryan Waniata, watching Moana,…

Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. As always, we’ve got a bunch of neat games to tell you about. Perhaps I’ll tear myself away from playing as Chappell Roan in Fortnite or Jetpack Cat in Overwatch long enough to check more of them out.Thanks to the folks at Aftermath, I learned about a short, text-based game from Woe Industries from a while back called You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI. Surprisingly enough, you take on the role of a venture capitalist who has plowed gobs of money into genAI technology and…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While Florida is perhaps best known for its beaches and wetlands, its landscape hosts other notable features: ridges. Millions of years ago, sea levels were higher than they are today, and these elevated areas of land became like islands. The species living on these ridges evolved in complete isolation, so the area is now packed with native animals that don’t exist anywhere else.  The earliest and tallest of these unique systems is the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida. It’s home to the Florida…

Google is rolling out Android Auto 16.1 widely as a stable version now, and this update seems to have fixed one particularly annoying issue. When Android Auto 16.0 started rolling out earlier this month, a number of users reported that the controls on their steering wheel had stopped working.The update brought a splash of the new Material 3 Expressive visual overhaul to Android Auto media apps, but as it turns out, it rendered steering wheel media controls unresponsive for some users.This is not a critical issue, and it didn’t result in any problems with the actual steering of the affected…

Yazuka Kiwami 3 director Ryosuke Horii justified the controversial casting of actor Teruyuki Kagawa as Goh Hamazaki in a recent interview, saying, “We tried to think of someone who makes you go, ‘This guy’s a creep.'”Horii spoke to Japanese outlet GAME Watch (independently translated by IGN) about the casting, which has drawn criticism because Kagawa has been accused of sexual assault. Horii said the team made their decision based on what performance they would most like to see in the game.”Hamazaki is a sleazy, persistent, and militant yakuza, right?” Horii said. “Since he isn’t an explosive character like Kanda, when…

An analysis by WIRED this week found that ICE and CBP’s face recognition app Mobile Fortify, which is being used to identify people across the United States, isn’t actually designed to verify who people are and was only approved for Department of Homeland Security use by relaxing some of the agency’s own privacy rules.WIRED took a close look at highly militarized ICE and CBP units that use extreme tactics typically seen only in active combat. Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly members of these paramilitary units. And a new report from the…

TikTok’s signature features that hooked users around the world are its algorithm and endless scroll. Now, though, the European Union has called those aspects of the app illegal and may order the company to alter them.“Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design,” the EU’s regulator said in a press release. “This includes features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its highly personalized recommender system.” It said that TikTok failed to put up safeguards to ensure that those “addictive” features don’t “harm the physical and mental wellbeing of…

We’ve all seen it: a kid with one finger wedged up a nostril, mining the cavity for a golden nugget, teasing it out, and then gobbling it like a tasty snack. It may be gross to adults, but most children seem completely unfazed. So why do kids eat their boogers, and are they possibly onto something?Most parents will tell you how common it is for children to eat their own mucus — a behavior known as “mucophagy” — yet data on its prevalence are scarce.One survey suggests that nose picking overall isn’t limited to kids; adults commonly do it, too.…

Bugs and glitches are not an uncommon sight on a smartphone. Most of them are usually addressed just days after they are first discovered. However, there’s a very strange popping noise bug that has been in Pixel smartphones for so long that some of you might even think it’s actually a feature of your Google Pixel.It’s existed since the coronavirus daysOpening and closing apps is one of the most basic things you do on a smartphone, and users generally do not face any issues with it. However, some users have posted on Reddit about hearing a very loud popping sound…

Helldivers 2 doesn’t give its players much of breather before throwing another invasion or intergalactic threat at them. Players across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC have a new reason to be wary, now that Arrowhead Studios CEO Shams Jorjani has been teasing the potential return of an old enemy faction.On the Helldivers Discord channel, Jorjani wrote the following message in binary code: “01011001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100001 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01110000 01100001 01101110 01110100 01110011.”According to GamesRadar, that code translates to English as…