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The holiday season is fully in the rear view mirror and real life is here to stay. But that doesn’t mean the time for gifts is over — especially ones for yourself. You can still take advantage of great January sales on some awesome tech products.Take the Apple Mac mini M4, which is down to $500 from $599. The 17 percent discount gives you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD for only about $20 more than the computer’s Black Friday sale. Its beefier models are also on sale: opting for 512GB of SSD will cost you $690, down from…
An early engineering mould of the Xiaomi 17 Air has surfaced on social media, offering a first look at a device that was once under development but never made it to launch. The leak hints at Xiaomi’s experimentation with ultra-thin smartphone designs, at a time when slim form factors are again drawing attention across the industry. Xiaomi 17 Air early engineering mould leak surfaces online A video shared by tipster Bald Panda shows the alleged Xiaomi 17 Air, which resembles a dual-camera version of the iPhone Air. The rear design features a horizontally aligned camera module, though Xiaomi appears to…
When Good Boy, the dog-led horror movie starring Indy the retriever, premiered last year, I said we should give the titular good boy an Oscar for his performance. That was just an offhand comment made in jest, but now that we’re in award season, Indy has actually been winning awards for his performance, though most of them have been against other animal actors. That is, until the Astra Awards on Friday, January 9, where he won the award for Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller, which was met with both happiness for the dog and a surprising amount of…
A company called GRU Space publicly announced its intent to construct a series of increasingly sophisticated habitats on the Moon, culminating in a hotel inspired by the Palace of the Fine Arts in San Francisco. On Monday, the company invited those interested in a berth to plunk down a deposit between $250,000 and $1 million, qualifying them for a spot on one of its early lunar surface missions in as little as six years from now. It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? After all, GRU Space had, as of late December when I spoke to founder Skyler Chan, a single full-time…
An iridium metal complex has been identified as a promising, if unconventional, new antibiotic drug, a new study finds.The compound is one of more than 600 produced in a study published in December in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers used a robot to synthesize the compounds, combining metal and organic molecule building blocks to generate a huge chemical library in just a week.This streamlined approach, which also produced five other potential antibiotics, could dramatically accelerate both drug discovery and parallel areas of chemical research, study lead author Angelo Frei, an inorganic chemist at the University of York in the…
Meta has appointed Dina Powell McCormick, a banking executive and former Republican White House official, as its new president and vice-chairman. The company said McCormick will help guide its overall strategy and execution as a part of the management team.“Dina’s experience at the highest levels of global finance, combined with her deep relationships around the world, makes her uniquely suited to help Meta manage this next phase of growth as the company’s president and vice chairman,” said Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.McCormick was a partner at Goldman Sachs and ran its Global Sovereign investment banking business. She was most…
Rockstar Games seems to be playing cat-and-mouse with some Grand Theft Auto Online players who are using newly added tools to recreate the assassination of Charlie Kirk in the extremely popular online open-world crime simulator. In September of last year, right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck and killed during a public appearance at a college in Utah. In the weeks that followed, many people, including Jimmy Kimmel, found themselves in trouble for commenting or joking about it. Some even lost their jobs. Then, in December, right before the new year, Rockstar added a mission creator to GTA…
The Realme Neo 8 has appeared in the database of China’s TENAA certification platform. As expected, the listing has revealed its key specifications well ahead of its launch. Here are the details that have surfaced through its TENAA listing. Realme Neo 8 specifications (rumored) Realme Neo 8 The Realme Neo 8 TENAA listing reveals that it has a 6.78-inch AMOLED display offering a 1.5K resolution of 2772 x 1272 pixels. Reports have revealed that it will also support a 165Hz refresh rate. Rumours have suggested that it will feature a flat display, but the TENAA images seemingly reveal a quad-curved…
Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature called Cowork. Built on the same foundations as Claude Code and baked into the macOS Claude desktop app, Cowork allows users to give Claude access to a specific folder on their computer and then give plain language instructions for tasks. Anthropic gave examples like filling out an expense report from a folder full of receipt photos, writing reports based on a big stack of digital notes, or…
A stretch of DNA in the mouse genome left by ancient viral infections is crucial for early development in the womb, new research shows.According to the study, published in December in the journal Science Advances, this viral DNA switches on genes that give cells in early-stage mouse embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in the body. The viral DNA — known as MERVL — itself gets activated by a protein called the “Dux transcription factor,” which binds to the sequence and essentially kick-starts the embryo’s development.Although it’s important in the womb, if Dux stays activated too long,…