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A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project began. Brown dwarfs are balls of gas the size of Jupiter, less massive than stars. There’s one for every three or four stars near the Sun. Although brown dwarfs are common, they can be hard to spot because they shine so faintly compared to stars. Having twice as many brown dwarfs to study allows astronomers a deeper understanding of these elusive objects. Already, this…
Meta Meta has shared more details about what it’s doing to keep kids aged under 13 off of Facebook and Instagram. Along with using artificial intelligence systems to look for contextual clues (like mentions of a school grade or birthday celebrations in profiles, posts and captions), the company says it’s employing visual analysis techniques. It will scan photos and videos to look for additional indicators of a person’s age. “We want to be clear: this is not facial recognition,” Meta wrote in a blog post. “Our AI looks at general…
Imagine a tech company so visionary that it can take an idea public. A “concept IPO,” they called it.Picture the three founders, all former Apple employees, two of whom—software engineers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson—were already Silicon Valley legends for their work creating the Apple Macintosh. Atkinson’s prolific inventions included the double click and the drop‑down menu. The third founder, Marc Porat, had a gift for seeing the future.For his PhD dissertation at Stanford in 1976, Porat analyzed (in painstaking detail) a century of transition in the American labor force and predicted a sea change in work. An economy based…
Lego’s licensed march through the history of console gaming continues with the Sega Genesis. It’s small, sleek, and satisfyingly shiny. Most importantly, it’s only $40, making it the cheapest retro gaming Lego set by far. The set is about half the size of a regular Sega Genesis and can fit on the surface area of a single notebook. It comes with two detachable controllers, sticker decorations, and enough pieces to customize it into a Sega Mega Drive as well. It comes with 479 pieces in total, including ones to make a Sonic game cartridge, and ships June 1, 2026. Lego…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. This colorful cloud over Jonggol, Indonesia, is not a portal to the land of Oz. Or the rainbow road into Asgard from Norse mythology. Or even an AI-generated image. They are iridescent clouds, a rare type of cloud that appear when raindrops interact with sunlight. According to WABC meteorologist Lee Goldberg, the small water droplets or ice crystals inside of the cloud scatter sunlight, diffracting the light into a spectrum of colors. The rainbow effect is most visible when the sun is partially blocked by…
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock A day after reporting from The New York Times said the Trump administration was considering whether to tighten its oversight of the AI industry, Google, Microsoft and xAI have signed agreements to provide the federal government with early access to their AI systems. According to the The Wall Street Journal, the Commerce Department Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) will evaluate new models the companies develop. “Independent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI and its national security implications,” CAISI director Chris Fall told The Journal. “These expanded industry collaborations help us scale…
Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli militaries.In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives for DeepMind employees.“Fundamentally, the push for unionization is about holding Google to its own ethical standards on AI, how they monetize it, what the products do, and who they work with,” John Chadfield, national officer for technology at…
Sam Rutherford for Engadget RATING : 8 / 10 Pros Big and bright 6.7-inch OLED display IP68 dust and water resistance Sleek, lightweight design Strong battery life Six years of OS and security updates Cons Fingerprint reader could be better 256GB model costs $540 No microSD card slot With the price of damn near everything going up these days, finding a good deal is harder than ever, especially when you’re shopping for electronics. However, after refreshing its midrange phone lineup for 2026, Samsung has a new…
The Steam Machine is coming in 2026, AI-fueled RAMaggedon be damned. While Valve hasn’t announced any official updates on its new home console since it was delayed earlier this year, logistics operations at the gaming company are reportedly ramping up. VR YouTuber Brad Lynch recently claimed that Valve’s facilities were getting filled with new gaming consoles, and new shipping records point to lots of gaming-related products arriving on cargo ships from China in just two days. The logistics documents, verified by The Verge, point to multiple shipping containers with seemingly new product inside arriving in short order at the end…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Travel season is approaching, which means families and solo adventurers scrounging together funds for a summer getaway. If they plan on flying to their destination, they have a record number of options to choose from. Though the overall basic economy seat price hit its lowest points in history (and at its smallest ever size), airlines have also realized passengers will spend incrementally more to upgrade their experience with added niceties like extra legroom or faster boarding. Those fortunate enough to fly business class are…