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Louise Matsakis: Oh God, you would not see me in the office for weeks if there was a bedbug infestation. How did they find out about this?Zoë Schiffer: So basically, they received this email on Sunday, saying that exterminators had arrived at the scene with sniffer dogs and “found credible evidence of their presence.” There, being the bedbugs. Sources tell WIRED that Google’s offices in New York are home to a number of large stuffed animals, and there was definitely a rumor going around among employees that these stuffed animals were implicated in the outbreak. We were not able to…

Scientists have found two pairs of merging black holes, and they think the larger one in each merger is a rare “second-generation” veteran of a previous collision.The two larger black holes’ unusual behavior, observed through ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, was described Oct. 28 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.The telltale clue was twofold: In each merger, the larger black hole was spinning rapidly and was significantly more massive than the partner black hole it swallowed. The events were observed with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, a set of gravitational-wave detectors around the world aiming to observe space-shaking events like black hole…

What’s new with One UI 8.5 notificationsWe’ve all got notification clutter, and Samsung is gearing up for its next attempt to fix it. A new leaked build of One UI 8.5 has been spotted in a new report, and this time, the “Priority notifications” feature is actually working. This feature was seen in a previous leak, but it was broken. Now we have our first look at how it will function.How priority notifications will reportedly workThe feature’s description says it finds “notifications that may be important” and sticks them “above other notifications to make sure you don’t miss them.” Screenshots…

The future of Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, subscription-free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud, was uncertain after the apps’ developer Serif was acquired by Canva in 2024. Now, over a year later, the changes Canva has introduced are big, but not necessarily unwelcome. The newly relaunched Affinity by Canva combines all three apps into a single piece of illustration, photo editing and layout software, and rather than move to a subscription model as many feared, Canva’s made it entirely free. Or, at least, freemium.Affinity is available now as a desktop app for macOS and Windows, with an iPadOS version on…

It’s almost Halloween. Quick! What horror games can you download for a spooky festive session or two? If you have Game Pass on Xbox or PC, there’s actually a bunch, and some of them are quite good. Our picks below range from interactive stories to brutal first-person shooters. Best of all, you don’t need to have Game Pass Ultimate to access them. All of the following games are available with just Game Pass Premium or Game Pass PC. Check some of these out for creepy vibes in between giving out candy. Aliens: Fireteam Elite (Xbox, PC) Cold Iron Studios Genre:…

As the birthplace of prestige TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, HBO—and, by extension, HBO Max—is best known for its impressive lineup of original series. The network has also been upping the ante with feature-length content that is the stuff of Oscar dreams.Below is a list of some of our favorite films streaming on HBO Max—from Oscar-winning epics to dystopian sci-fi classics. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our picks for the best shows on HBO Max. If you’re looking for even more recommendations, check out our lists of the best movies on Netflix, the best movies…

During the launch of the top-tier Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Qualcomm announced it was working on a non-elite version of the chipset. The company hasn’t shared much about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, but a new leak reveals most of the important details about it.Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 to share a lot with its Elite siblingJust like Qualcomm’s top-tier chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 may be built on TSMC’s N3P 3nm process and feature custom Oryon CPU cores in a 2+6 configuration. According to a leak (source in Chinese) from Digital Chat Station, the chip will have two…

Tectonic processes and the “ghosts” of past ice sheets are contorting, lifting and pulling Greenland in different directions, new research reveals.Greenland sits on the North American tectonic plate, which has dragged the island northwest by 0.9 inches (23 millimeters) per year over the past two decades. Researchers have been monitoring this drift for some time, but a new study analyzing satellite data has found that there is far more to the movement and to other deformations than just plate tectonics.”We get this complicated pattern with twisting, pressure, and tension,” said study lead author Danjal Longfors Berg, a postdoctoral researcher specializing…

Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first flight in California, according to a press release spotted by Gizmodo. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (Quesst) aircraft is designed to reach supersonic speeds without the “sonic boom,” and now with this latest test flight complete, NASA and Lockheed plan to conduct future tests to measure the X-59’s “sound signature and conduct community acceptance testing.”The flight on Tuesday was between US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. “The X-59 performed…

Earlier this month, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD) called out AT&T for violating its rules in an advertisement seeking to disparage T-Mobile. AT&T has yet to pull the ad, but the airtime might not necessarily be doing it any favors.Carrier war fatigue is setting inIf the current growth trajectory continues, T-Mobile might soon unseat Verizon as the largest carrier in the US. That seems to be making Verizon and AT&T both feel insecure, which helps explain why both have been putting out ads against the carrier. AT&T’s latest campaign takes aim at T-Mobile for…