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On this week’s Big Interview podcast, actor-director Ben McKenzie talks about the rise of crypto, why he finds it dangerous, and why it benefits from having a mysterious creator.
A chance discovery of a broken bronze cup in Spain has revealed a 1,900-year-old depiction of Hadrian’s Wall and forts in England, a new study reports. The multicolored vessel was likely crafted as a memento of a soldier’s time defending the frontiers of the Roman Empire, the study authors said.The cup was discovered in Berlanga de Duero, a municipality in central Spain, nearly 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the storied Roman defensive wall that protected the northern frontier of the empire in the second century. The hemispheric “Berlanga Cup” is about 4.5 inches (11.4 centimeters) wide and around 3.2 inches…
How do you combat user-generated game junk in the age of AI slop? Why did some players just get a cool, free otter backpack in Final Fantasy 14? And today’s big Arc Raiders update accidentally messed up a key feature. It’s your daily Kotaku Checkpoint for April 28, 2026. Everyone is dunking on the price of Valve’s $100 Steam controller, but what about paying $65 for a single button? The Keychron Q0 Mini 8K Action Key is a single mechanical switch for $65. With endless possibilities, it brings fun and stress relief while boosting your daily productivity. Think of it as…
Traeger’s first non-pellet grills debuted in 2023. Jumping into the griddle craze, the company introduced the Flatrock series in a three-burner model — later adding the smaller, two-burner option. Now Traeger is back with two new griddles, the two- and four-burner Irontop, which actually offer more cooking area than their predecessors. Plus, these new griddles are more affordable, too.Traeger promises the Irontop models will offer fast preheating, precise temperature control, edge-to-edge heating and a durable construction. The cooking area has a food-safe, rust-resistant coating the company says only requires “simple seasoning and care.” Traeger says the consistent heating across the…
To achieve a smart home, you need a voice assistant to run it. A smart home assistant, usually folded into a smart speaker, will let you command your smart home with your voice and run your various routines. It also acts as a center for every gadget you want to add to your home. And you can add almost anything these days, from smart garage control to even voice-commanding your blinds.But which assistant should you choose? Each of the big players comes with its own pros and cons, but I recommend choosing based on what you already use day-to-day. Your…
Scientists have created a comprehensive map of smell receptors in the mouse nose, revealing a few surprises about this fundamental sense.Smell receptors, or olfactory receptors, were previously thought to be randomly distributed within the lining of the nasal cavity. But now, the first-of-its-kind map shows that they are highly organized, with different types separated into tight bands.The study, published Tuesday (April 28) in the journal Cell, provides new clues about how the sense of smell works. You may like Smells are detected by olfactory sensory neurons in the nasal cavity. Each neuron expresses one of 1,172 different receptors encoded in…
Elious, the creator behind the popular Pokémon nature documentary YouTube series PokéNational Geographic, says that his channel will be deleted by YouTube in seven days due to a series of sudden and aggressive copyright strikes from Nintendo of America. In a video posted to an alternate channel, Elious says that Nintendo of America suddenly issued numerous strikes on large batches of his videos, all in the space of 12 hours. At the time he posted the video, a total of 20 videos had been caught up in four separate copyright strikes which encompass the entirety of the videos. With YouTube’s…
The Trump Administration has signed deals with two major energy companies to abandon their respective offshore wind farms, with both firms agreeing to invest in oil and gas projects instead.The separate agreements were detailed in a from the Interior Department, which named Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind as the companies that have voluntarily agreed to end their current leases for a combined $885 million. Both firms have also said they don’t intend to pursue any new offshore wind projects in the US going forward.Bluepoint Wind is an early-stages wind farm located off the coast of New Jersey and New…
OpenAI has a goblin problem.Instructions designed to guide the behavior of the company’s latest model as it writes code have been revealed to include a line, repeated several times, that specifically forbids it from randomly mentioning an assortment of mythical and real creatures.“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query,” read instructions in Codex CLI, a command line tool for using AI to generate code.It is unclear why OpenAI felt compelled to spell this out for Codex—or indeed why its models might want…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its right navigation camera — one of two on the rover’s mast, or head — to capture the images in this timelapse, which spans six years of driving. The images were snapped between Jan. 2, 2020, and March 8, 2026 (the 2,633rd and 4,830th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, respectively). The images were taken when the mast was looking behind the rover to help the science team choose rocks to study. Curiosity’s team is using this timelapse to watch for sand grains shifting on the rover’s deck. Distinguishing between sand jostled by each…