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A British trade union group is accusing Rockstar Games of union busting after it reportedly fired over 30 employees across offices in the UK and Canada. The Grand Theft Auto 6 maker denies the charges, however, claiming the people were terminated for “gross misconduct.” “Rockstar has just carried out one of the most blatant and ruthless acts of union busting in the history of the games industry,” Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) president Alex Marshall said in a statement, first reported by Bloomberg. “This flagrant contempt for the law and for the lives of the workers who bring…
Michael Calore: Yeah. My favorite indiscreet product placement was in the show Entourage from HBO. It was on TV, I don’t know, 15 years ago.Lauren Goode: Oh, I remember it.Michael Calore: And the characters used to say to each other, “I’ll BBM it to you.”Lauren Goode: No. Time capsule.Michael Calore: Yeah. Which is like, even if you had a Blackberry—Lauren Goode: Yeah, you never said that.Michael Calore: Nobody ever said that.Lauren Goode: No, it’s so true.Michael Calore: They would text it to you.Lauren Goode: Incredible.Michael Calore: But no, I’m going to BBM it to you.Andy Greenberg: Just the fact that…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Just in time for Halloween, researchers have identified a new species of trapdoor spider. The newly discovered Aptostichus ramirezae is about the size of a quarter, brown, and pretty chunky. It’s the fourth known species of trapdoor spiders in California whose habitat is limited to sandy coastal dunes. Female trapdoor spiders are basically vampires. They spend their entire lives in underground, silky burrows behind a hinged, camouflaged door. They only leave their lair for lunch, when they feel vibrations indicating the passing above of an unfortunate…
Google Photos is rolling out new video editing templates to help you quickly create “trendy,” polished videos. The feature, an extension of Highlight videos, uses pre-packaged music, text, and beat-matched cuts.Google Photos is adding ‘trendy’ new video templatesGoogle is looking to make video creation in the Photos app a bit more automated and, well, “trendy.” The app is getting new video editing templates designed to simplify the process of making shareable clips.This new feature is an expansion of the “Highlight video” tool that first appeared in 2023. According to Google, these templates are “pre-packaged” with everything you need: cuts matched…
One of our favorite power banks is on sale for one of the best prices we’ve seen, period. The Anker MagGo Power Bank 10K has dropped to only $57, which is 37 percent off its usual price. To put it into perspective, the lowest we’ve tracked it is $54, and that only happened briefly at the end of 2024. Today’s sale applies to multiple colorways.This model topped our list of the best power banks, and with very good reason. It’s a workhorse that gets the job done. It includes Qi2 tech for fast wireless charging and ships with a sturdy…
I am still but a tourist enjoying the horny fruits of the Love and Deepspace community’s labor, so I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that there are months-long controversies and discourse within the gacha game I had never heard of. However, when I saw IGN reporting on dark-skinned custom characters being essentially “invisible” in some of its cutscenes, I was flabbergasted at how true it was, and that it’s apparently been an issue since the game launched last year. Something you’ll learn in film or art school is that you will sometimes have to frame shots, adjust lighting, and consider…
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings novels—and the associated “legendarium” of characters, histories, myths, maps, and constructed languages—have served as a bedrock of so-called “nerd culture” since their publication in the mid-1950s.With its clear-cut characterizations, and (more-or-less) cleanly delineated lines between Good and Evil, Tolkien’s imagined Middle-earth—a vast and geographically variegated realm teeming with elves, dwarves, wizards, dragons, orcs, and halflings—can be fairly called archetypal. It is the sort of modern myth that can be adapted to any time, place, or scenario. Well, almost any.Recently, the US Department of Homeland Security has taken to “Shire-posting.” That is: using quotes…
While everyone’s fixated on the Galaxy S26 series, Samsung may have started working on what could turn into one of its best-selling smartphones of 2026. A new leak suggests that the Galaxy A57 is already in development without revealing much about it.Samsung is working on the Galaxy A57A firmware for what’s likely to be the Galaxy A57 has been spotted on Samsung’s test servers. A screenshot by Twitter user Koram_Akhilesh shows the software for a device with model number SM-A576B.The model number reveals that the Galaxy A57 is also likely to get a wider release. The letter B at the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Never underestimate the power of fungi. It can turn ants into “zombies,” help fictional plumbers grow, and even look like creepy fingers. One newly engineered strain of fungus uses the power of smell to kill Earth’s deadliest animal—mosquitoes. Mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria and dengue, kill thousands of people per year. In 2023 alone, malaria killed over 500,000 people in 83 countries. These illnesses are often difficult to control, and mosquitoes have gotten better at resisting chemical pesticides that used to work. However, fighting nature with nature…
Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren’t names you’d ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don’t have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pages dedicated to memes, animal videos and yes, AI-generated photos and videos.The people behind these pages are experts at creating content that can catch Facebook’s algorithm and go viral. Successful pages can generate tens of thousands of dollars a month from performance bonuses, revenue-sharing and other monetization programs that pay Facebook creators for popular content.For years, Meta fostered this industry of viral content on Facebook. As the company transformed Facebook’s…