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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. New York’s Port Authority police are reportedly leaning on new digital surveillance tactics to crack down on unlicensed taxi hustlers. These scammers operate at transit hubs across the city in a gray market that critics say exploits passengers and steals fares from licensed cab drivers. The new enforcement effort is part of a $100 million initiative called Operation Legal Ride. Officers use controversial license plate readers to automatically scan every car that enters John F. Kennedy International Airport’s (JFK) five terminals, regardless of whether…
Assassin’s Creed Hexe lost its creative director, Clint Hocking, at the end of February. Two months later, it’s losing game director Benoit Richer, who departed to cofound an “indie studio of industry veterans, aligned around a shared vision of the industry and experience creation.” Richer joined Ubisoft back in 2017 after directing Batman: Arkham Origins at Warner Bros. Montreal. He led the French publisher’s 2018 VR psychological thriller Transference before becoming a game director on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and later Assassin’s Creed Hexe. He’s now the project’s second high-profile departure this year. Hocking, an Ubisoft veteran on Splinter Cell, Far…
Xiaomi looks set to bring another smart kitchen gadget to global markets. The upcoming Mijia Smart Steam Air Fryer 7L combines air frying with steam cooking, and even adds support for sous vide-style cooking. If it sounds familiar, that’s because Xiaomi already launched a similar model in China earlier. This version bumps the capacity up to 7 liters, making it more suitable for larger meals or batch cooking. In terms of features, it covers quite a bit. Xiaomi lists 10 cooking modes, including steaming, fermenting, dehydrating, defrosting, and reheating. The sous vide part is interesting here. Traditionally, that requires a…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The brain of a honeybee (Apis mellifera) weighs less than one milligram and contains fewer than one million neurons, but that may be more than enough for surprisingly complex calculations. For decades, cognitive researchers and biologists have debated just how much the seemingly simple insects can comprehend. The answer may sound inconsequential, but it has major implications for how intelligence functions and evolves across species. Now, a team at Monash University in Australia says they have a definitive answer about bee smarts: Earth’s vital…
For years, a standalone Venom seemed like an obvious play for Insomniac Games. Spider-Man 2 includes an entire level where he’s playable, and the studio already established its willingness to ship smaller spin-offs in between tentpole Spider-Man sequels. Despite references to the project leaking in hacked Insomniac files back in 2023, a Venom game has yet to materialize. Miles Morales actor Nadji Jeter addressed the confusion around the project in a new interview. “Let me give y’all an exclusive,” Jeter told content creators Love it Film (via Insider Gaming). “We were going to have a Venom game. We were going…
Xiaomi seems to have revealed its next budget phone a bit earlier than planned. The Poco C81 Pro briefly showed up on the company’s global website before being taken down, but not before its specs were noticed. From what’s been spotted, this looks like a fairly straightforward entry-level device. The focus is on the basics, big screen, decent battery, and enough performance for everyday use. Up front, there’s a 6.9-inch LCD display with a 120Hz refresh rate and HD+ resolution. Brightness is listed at up to 800 nits, so it should hold up reasonably well outdoors. The phone runs on…
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The name of Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion has officially been revealed. Announced during the Final Fantasy XIV North American Fan Festival’s opening showcase, the next chapter in the game’s Godless Realms Saga is titled Evercold, and will follow the player’s Warrior of Light as they attempt to stop the Fourth Reflection from freezing over. However, according to game director Naoki Yoshida, the upcoming expansion was very nearly named something else.In a press conference held by Yoshida following the showcase, the director explained that Evercold’s original name was actually rejected by Square Enix–and it’s not the first time that’s happened,…
But where money does that come from? … SpaceX expects more than 90 percent of that market, or $26.5 trillion, to stem from the AI sector. The vast majority of that, $22.7 trillion, could come from AI for businesses. The company is moving ahead with an IPO expected this summer targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion and seeking to raise about $75 billion, which would make it the largest initial public offering in history. “We believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market in human history,” according to the filing. Falcon boosters have now landed 600 times.…
GoPro has introduced a new line of compact cinema cameras called the MISSION 1 Series. The lineup includes three main models: MISSION 1 PRO, MISSION 1, and MISSION 1 PRO ILS. All three are built around a new 50MP 1-inch sensor and the company’s GP3 processor, with a focus on high-resolution video, better low-light output, and longer recording times. The new sensor uses 1.6µm native pixels and 3.2µm fused pixels in Quad Bayer mode. GoPro says this allows up to 14 stops of dynamic range. The GP3 processor, built on a 5nm design, is meant to improve efficiency and heat…