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I don’t know about you, but Christmas snuck up on me this year. I’m still in denial that it’s only a few days away, and there’s still plenty of shopping I need to complete. If you’re in the same boat as me, have I got a hot tip for you: If you’re shopping for any reader in your life, several great Kindles (and Kindle accessories, too!) are on sale right now for a final hurrah before the big holiday.That’s right, you can score anything from our all-time favorite Kindle to a range of color-screen and kid-focused Kindles on sale right…

Developer Mark Ffrench has carved out something of a unique niche on Steam, regularly releasing fill-a-pix logic puzzle games of enormous scale and surprising depth. Among others in 2024 there was Proverbs, a wall-sized puzzle based on Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting Netherlandish Proverbs, and 2024: Mosaic Retrospective, which contained dozens of interlocking images recalling major events from the whole year. Following Mosaic of the Pharaohs earlier this year, we now have the most elaborate entry yet: Mosaic of the Strange—a game that combines the same logic puzzle conceit with a pixelated point-n-click adventure. Right, describing a logic puzzle is always the…

The T1 smartphone from Trump Mobile remains non-existent vaporware, but the company is still finding new ways to take people’s money. Anyone who desperately wants to fund this sham can now buy a refurbished phone from the company. The business’s website has listings for “Renewed” models of the Samsung S24 and S23 and the iPhone 15 and 14. Gizmodo noticed that Trump Mobile is selling these other brands’ phones for the same cost, or sometimes more, than the same refurbs from other retailers. Seems pretty par for the course.NBC News opted to order one of the T1 phones in August to…

Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a time of violent turmoil, with planetesimals, asteroids, and comets smashing together and pelting the Earth, Moon, and the other inner planets with debris. Now, in a historical milestone, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly imaged similar catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system around another star, Fomalhaut. “This is certainly the first time I’ve ever seen a point of light appear out of nowhere in an exoplanetary system,” said principal investigator Paul Kalas of the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s absent in…

In Vattenfall’s central control room, human operators aided by algorithms monitor the electricity grid, and the market, to judge whether their pumped hydro plants ought to be generating or pumping. Kühne adds that the frequency of alternating between these modes has gone up over time because of renewables’ variability.If you can get the response right, however, you can make a lot of money. On its website, Vattenfall describes pumped hydro as “highly profitable.” A paper published last month estimated the effect of rising renewables in Spain between now and 2050. With gradually decreasing electricity prices, higher variability, and less need…

Bethesda Game Studios may have a reputation for putting out bug-ridden games with barely functioning UIs and then leaving it all for modders to fix, but it generally does this with stunningly wonderful games in which tolerating the jank is more than worthwhile. Starfield, however, is the studio’s first big first-party miss since, wow, 2006’s IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition. What’s more striking is that the space-faring epic has, since its September 6, 2023 release, put out a single desultory expansion pack, and that was well over a year ago now. New rumors of a rejuvenated version to accompany the…

Trump media, the company behind the president’s personal social media platform Truth Social, is inexplicably merging with a Google-backed fusion energy company called TAE Technologies. The deal is worth $6 billion, .Why is an entity known for publishing frenzied hot takes by the president at 3AM combining with a fusion energy company? Who the heck really knows, but a statement says the two organizations will join together to build the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant.” This would be huge, if true, as there are currently no operational commercial nuclear fusion power plants.We know what TAE would bring to the…

This panoramic view of SPHEREx’s first all-sky map simulates how the sky looks to the telescope. It transitions between observations of colors emitted by hot hydrogen gas (blue) and cosmic dust (red), and those primarily emitted by stars.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are prevalent in the cosmos, and observing the entire sky this way enables scientists to answer big questions, including how a dramatic event that occurred in the first…

The Chinese-language artificial intelligence app Haotian is so effective that it’s made millions of dollars selling its face-swapping technology on Telegram. The service integrates easily with messaging platforms like WhatsApp and WeChat and claims that users can tweak up to 50 settings—including the ability to adjust things like cheekbone size and eye position—to help mimic the face they are impersonating. But while Haotian is a robust and versatile platform, researchers and WIRED’s own analysis have found that the service has been marketing to so-called “pig butchering” scammers and those running online fraud operations in Southeast Asia.Scammers have used Haotian and…

If you’re struggling to find your next binge-watch, you can’t go wrong with anime. For the holidays, you can save on a Crunchyroll subscription, giving you access to its vast library of anime series to watch. Through December 29, you can sign up for an annual Fan subscription for $67, down from the usual $80, or a Mega Fan subscription for $100, down from $120.While both the Fan and Mega Fan plans are ad-free, you do get some different benefits depending on which you decide to pay for. Fan subscribers get full access to Crunchyroll’s library, new episodes “shortly after…