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The first time I watched an Olympic curling match on television, I entertained a thought that is surely shared by everyone who sees the sport for the first time: What the hell am I looking at?It was during the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I tuned in to the live feed at the very beginning of a women’s medal match. I was intrigued by the grace of the players and how they could effortlessly slide those huge, bulb-like stones down the ice.Everything else about it was confusing. It looked sort of like shuffleboard, but with more yelling.…
Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa appears to have life-friendly molecules on its surface.Al Emran, a researcher with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spotted ammonia on the surface of Europa while looking through old data from the Galileo mission, which studied Jupiter and its moons from 1995 to 2003.Data gathered from Galileo’s near-infrared mapping spectrometer in 1997 showed “faint signals of ammonia” near cracks on the frozen moon’s surface, NASA officials wrote in a statement describing the findings, which were published late last year in The Planetary Science Journal. You may like It is the “first such detection at Europa” and therefore has…
Valve still hasn’t revealed the full breakdown of what’s inside its new Steam Machine console or how much it will cost. Those details were delayed along with the device’s “early” 2026 launch due to an AI-fueled PC part shortage. But the company did offer a fresh clue about how the mini-computer will perform, and it almost sounds too good to be true. “In our testing the majority of Steam titles play great at 4K 60FPS with FSR on Steam Machine,” the company wrote in a new update on February 4. “That said, there are some titles that currently require more…
The official unveiling of the Galaxy S26 lineup is now fast approaching, with most rumors claiming to expect it on February 25. Rumors are not that consistent when it comes to the elephant in the room: pricing. A new report now gives us a glimpse at the pricing in another European market, and that is not good news either. Galaxy S26 pricing for the French market leaks Rumors about the Galaxy S26 pricing are still contradictory. We have some reports claiming there won’t be any price increase, then others suggest there will be (at least in some markets). Now, a new report…
Apple’s long-rumored foldable iPhone hasn’t been announced yet, but after years of speculation, it seems like this device could finally be coming out soon(ish). Multiple sources claim that Apple could be targeting a late-2026 launch for its first foldable phone, and new rumors suggest the company is even already thinking about its second model, which could be a clamshell-style foldable iPhone.But of course, nothing is official yet. Plans can change, features can be dropped and timelines can slip. Still, recent reports paint the clearest picture yet of how Apple might approach a foldable iPhone and how it plans to differentiate…
Ryan Cochran-Siegle was practically born on skis. He started sliding around Vermont snow at age 2 and grew up in one of the most storied families in American alpine racing. His grandparents built a nonprofit ski area in 1961, and his mother, Barbara Ann Cochran, won Olympic gold in Sapporo in 1972. When Cochran-Siegle made the US national alpine team in 2011, he joined his cousin, two-time Olympian Jimmy Cochran.But Cochran-Siegle’s career hasn’t been an inheritance story. It’s been shaped by catastrophic injuries, long rehabs, and a steady belief that his best skiing was still ahead of him.Cochran-Siegle is no…
A group of people living in the far southern reaches of Greece’s Peloponnesian Peninsula have been genetically isolated for over a millennium and can trace their roots back to the Bronze Age, an analysis of their DNA reveals.A new genetic study shows that this group, known as the Deep Maniot Greeks, are paternally descended from ancient Greeks and Byzantine-era Romans. Long-term genetic isolation and strict patriarchal clans likely contributed to the unique genetics of the Deep Maniot Greeks over the past 1,400 years, according to the study authors.The Mani Peninsula is the middle of three peninsulas that extend south from…
The Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new venture into living room console gaming, was supposed to begin shipping in “early” 2026. That’s no longer the case. The company announced on Wednesday that its original launch plans have been pushed back to later in the year due to memory and storage shortages as companies race to pivot to AI. “When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now,” Valve wrote in a new February 4 blog post. “But the memory and storage shortages you’ve likely heard about across the industry…
Anthropic has announced that its chatbot Claude . This is in direct contrast to rival company OpenAI, which recently for many users.The company says that “including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible” with the chatbot becoming a “genuinely helpful assistant for work and for deep thinking.” The reasoning here is rather simple. People tend to with chatbots, for better , and getting ads based on that stuff would be creepy. Imagine asking for mental health advice and getting an ad for St. John’s wort or something.Anthropic notes that other conversations “involve complex software engineering tasks, deep work or…
It can be quite frustrating when you find yourself in situations such as on a long flight that does not offer any kind of internet connection, and you are trying to listen to your favorite downloaded playlist, but you cannot view the song lyrics. However, if you are a Spotify user, you may now have a solution to this annoyance with the app’s latest update.Spotify gives its lyrics a major makeoverIn a recent post, Spotify announced that it is rolling out three significant updates that are going to change the way you interact with song lyrics. This is part of…