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Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world have crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each year. In 2025, their measurements broke records once again, making this the eighth year in a row that the world’s oceans have absorbed more heat than the years before.The study, which was published Friday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Science, found that the world’s oceans absorbed an additional 23 zettajoules’ worth of heat in 2025, the most in any year since modern measurements began in the 1960s. That’s significantly higher than the 16 additional zettajoules…
Have a hankering for some audiobooks? Audible is holding one heck of a sale right now, giving users . That’s a dollar per month. This is something of a winter tradition for the Amazon-owned platform and the promotion ends on January 21.An Audible subscription grants one audiobook per month to keep. This can be selected from a massive catalog of new releases and bestsellers. The collection here has just about everything.AmazonHowever, it’s easy to plow through a single book in a month. Users also get streaming access to thousands of curated titles. Think of it like Netflix for audiobooks. The…
If upgrading your audio gear is on your New Year’s checklist, this deal is hard to beat. The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds are widely praised for their exceptional noise cancellation, immersive sound quality, and all-day comfort, making them a great choice in the premium earbuds category. Right now, Amazon is offering them at a $49 discount, dropping the price from their usual $299 down to just $250 for a limited time. Whether you’re tuning out distractions during your daily commute, staying focused while working, traveling, or simply enjoying your favorite playlists at home without the whine of your toddler crying…
Milestone: Prize for theory of elastic waves awardedDate: Jan. 9, 1816 (some sources say Jan. 8)Where: ParisWho: Sophie GermainIn January 1816, the secretary general of the Paris Academy of Sciences sent Marie-Sophie Germain a strange letter.In it, he acknowledged that she had won the institute’s prestigious “Grand Mathematics Prize” for her mathematical work describing how sound waves travel across 2D surfaces. And yet, the letter offered no congratulations, noted condescendingly that she was the only entrant, and admitted that she had not received tickets to attend the prize ceremony set to occur two days later. He grudgingly acknowledged that, if…
Chatbot makers must protect kids, NCMEC says X has been very vocal about policing its platform for CSAM since Musk took over Twitter, but under former CEO Linda Yaccarino, the company adopted a broad protective stance against all image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). In 2024, X became one of the earliest corporations to voluntarily adopt the IBSA Principles that X now seems to be violating by failing to tweak Grok. Those principles seek to combat all kinds of IBSA, recognizing that even fake images can “cause devastating psychological, financial, and reputational harm.” When it adopted the principles, X vowed to prevent…
In a new executive order, President Donald Trump has declared that the United States will withdraw from 66 international organizations and bodies, including several focused on tackling climate change. Trump made his disregard for climate change clear when he withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement for a second time in early 2025, but these new withdrawals further confirm the second Trump administration is against global collaboration in general.Among the organizations targeted, the US will no longer participate in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and organizations focused on trade, conservation, reproductive…
Grabbing a new laptop does not have to blow your budget if you know where to look. If your current machine isn’t offering the performance it once did, or your needs have grown, and you want something with a bit more muscle, Amazon is making the upgrade easy. The retailer is currently offering a massive 65% discount on the 16-inch HP EliteBook 6 G1, which brings its price down to $900 from $2,600. You’re saving a whopping $1,700 on a device that’s made to handle both work and entertainment well, but the deal wraps up soon. Snag the drop before…
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This year, over 4,000 exhibitors descended on Las Vegas, Nevada to showcase their wares at CES, and the Engadget team was out in full force. The week started with press conferences from the biggest companies at the show, which were often a flurry of AI buzzwords, vague promises and very little in the way of hard news.More than one company even decided to forgo announcing things during their conferences to make way for more AI chatter, only to publish press releases later quietly admitting that, yes, actually, they did make some consumer technology. It’s appropriate, I guess, that as we’re…
Will Grand Theft Auto 6 actually come out this year? Will Square Enix invest another 10 years into remaking Final Fantasy 6? How much do you want to bet that Roblox gets hacked at some point and pictures of random kids doing age verification checks leak online? It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. CES 2026 is this week in Las Vegas, with all manner of neat, bizarre, and depraved gadgets being peddled by tech companies big and small. So it’s the perfect opportunity to look back at a simpler time and…