Author: mehedihasan9992
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Around 100 million years ago, real kraken-like creatures stalked Earth’s prehistoric oceans. According to a study published today in the journal Science, some of the planet’s oldest known octopuses measured nearly 65-feet-long and ruled their underwater domains. “Our findings suggest that the earliest octopuses were gigantic predators that occupied the top of the marine food chain in the Cretaceous,” Yasuhiro Iba, a study co-author and marine paleontologist at Hokkaido University in Japan, explained in a statement, adding that they “may have surpassed the size…
As soon as you crash land onto the unknown beach at the start of Windrose, there’s a world of content just waiting for you to unveil. While you might be eager to breeze through the opening act to get your first ship and start sailing the open seas, there’s plenty to do on land as well. This includes completing some side quests, and one of the first side quests you can find in Windrose is called “Fifteen Men On A Dead Man’s Chest.”This quest doesn’t seem overly complicated on the surface, but it’s not a simple fetch quest either. To…
A 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist was identified by media reports and President Donald Trump as the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night.Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California, was apprehended following the firing of shots at the Washington Hilton, where Trump was scheduled to deliver remarks to a ballroom full of journalists, cabinet officials, and Hilton staff. Allen’s name surfaced in media reports shortly before Trump posted two photos of a suspect following his apprehension. The person in the photos Trump posted matches photos of Allen.In dramatic scenes, several shots were heard outside the ballroom,…
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Your workout gear drawer is full of free shirts from charity 5Ks, office field days, and an ill-fated chili cookoff. It’s time to fold those into the rag pile and actually dress the part when you go work out. Backcountry’s current activewear sale has hundreds of men’s and women’s pieces marked down as much as 60 percent, including a Salomon hybrid jacket cut from $199.95 to $89.98, a Rab long-sleeve…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has further discussed her thought process as it relates to exclusive games, saying in a new interview that she plans to be thoughtful in whatever decision she comes to.Speaking to Game File, Sharma said she wants to make “the right decision, not the fastest decision” because such a decision has major ramifications. Whatever Sharma and the team land on in terms of exclusives will amount to “long-swinging decisions that have decade-long impact,” she said.So how will Sharma and her team decide if the company will change its policy around exclusive games? There isn’t one specific approach…
REDMI has started teasing a new tablet, the K Pad 2, and it’s clearly going after performance-focused users. The company is calling it a “performance flagship,” which sounds like typical marketing, but some of the early details suggest it’s at least trying to stand out a bit, especially on the gaming side. At the center of it is the Dimensity 9500, paired with a 15300mm² vapor chamber cooling system. REDMI is also using a centered chip layout, which is meant to help with heat distribution during longer sessions. In theory, that should mean more stable performance without throttling too quickly.…
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Setting up a tent in the dark when your hands are cold is hard enough. Add limited dexterity, a prosthetic, or a wheelchair to the picture and most typical camping gear becomes fully unusable. Zippers catch. Doorway sills turn into obstacles. Sleeping bags require a two-handed shimmy. The North Face’s new Universal Collection includes a zipperless sleeping bag, a redesigned three-person Wawona tent, a free-standing daypack, a convertible brimmer hat,…
Baldur’s Gate 3 released nearly three years ago, but the fandom continues to be rabid for new stories featuring their favorite characters. As it turns out, they’ll be getting exactly what they want very soon, as a new publishing program from Penguin Random House is bringing a number of Baldur’s Gate 3 books to shelves this year and beyond.By far the biggest of these is Baldur’s Gate 3: Astarion, a prequel novel planned for release on September 29. The novel is written by T. Kingfisher (Hemlock & Silver, Swordheart), who worked in collaboration with game writer Stephen Rooney to ensure…
Honor is one of the few brands offering smartphones with 10,000mAh batteries. The company already offers both mid-range and flagship models with these oversized cells, including the Honor Power 2 and the Honor Win series (Win and Win RT), respectively. Now, the next milestone for Honor seems to be 11,000mAh. A new leak from tipster Digital Chat Station claims the company has started trial production of a new battery with a rated capacity of 10,690mAh and a typical capacity of 11,000mAh. The report does not name the phone, but it points to yet another Honor device built around a very…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. About 2,200 years ago, a Roman Republic ship sank off the coast of modern-day Croatia, with wood and amphorae (ancient storage containers) of wine on board. Scientists are not sure why it sank, but the Ilovik–Paržine 1 shipwreck was discovered in 2016. However, the archeologists and researchers behind a new study published today in the journal Frontiers in Materials weren’t interested in its precious cargo. The ship’s critical waterproofing layer was their treasure. This unique protective layer on a ship traps pollen in its…