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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The newest residents of the internet’s favorite eagle nest are rapidly growing right before our eyes. Nearly one month after hatching, Jackie and Shadow’s two to-be-named chicks are beginning to put more on thermal fur. This extra warmth was certainly helpful, after a snowstorm covered their nest in snow over the weekend. What a difference three weeks makes. Image: Friends of Big Bear Valley. According to nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley (FOBBV), the chicks are also growing their first juvenile pin feathers. These…
When Valve sent me a Steam Controller earlier this month ahead of its release on May 4, I wasn’t sure what to expect. The original Steam Controller, released back in 2015, was an interesting experiment, but not a controller I’d ever use daily. And the new, upcoming Steam Controller looked a bit less weird, but still not quite like most gamepads out there. Plus, there was a tiny little puck that you connected to your computer that also charged it. That seemed neat, but potentially finicky. But after using the Steam Controller and its tiny little puck for a few…
A jury was selected on Monday during the first day of trial for Musk v. Altman in a federal court in Oakland, California. Some of the jurors that were ultimately selected voiced concerns over Musk himself, as well as the AI technology at the core of the case, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside for the trial. The kick off also catalyzed an array of shenanigans outside the courtroom.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman were spotted in the security line inside the courthouse this morning, but Elon Musk was nowhere to be found. A…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The average male Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) is about 10-feet-long and weighs around 1,200 pounds. But Chonkers is no average sea lion. At an estimated 2,000 pounds , the absurdly humongous, Redditor-nicknamed marine mammal has captivated onlookers and imposed himself on his fellow sunbathers ever since he arrived at San Francisco’s Pier 39 in early April. Sea lions routinely visit the Bay Area for its vast sources of fish, as well as the chance to simply hang out together. These gatherings are part…
There’s a rumor going around today from a noted leaker about Nintendo’s big plans for its Marvel-like cinematic film universe, and if it’s true, uh wow, we sure are stacked with Nintendo movies for the next decade or so: Update on the Nintendo Cinematic Universe: -A Donkey Kong movie is already deep in development and slated for a 2028 release -Work has begun on Mario 3, targeting 2029 -A Star Fox movie is in development, eyeing a 2030 release -A Kirby movie is in early development -Luigi’s… pic.twitter.com/TeyqSaEcJl — MyTimeToShineHello (@MyTimeToShineH) April 24, 2026 MyTimeToShineHello has leaked things accurately before,…
Since Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, the exclusive partnership between the two firms has been one of the strongest and most consequential in the AI industry. Today, though, OpenAI and Microsoft jointly announced an amended agreement that will allow the company to go beyond Microsoft’s Azure and “serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider.” The announcement clarifies that Microsoft will continue to have a license for OpenAI’s IP and models through 2032 and that Azure will remain the “primary cloud partner” for OpenAI during that time (should Microsoft continue to be able to honor…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Establishing a long-term human presence on the moon is a daunting challenge. Daunting—but not impossible. One way to help prepare for our imminent arrival is to gain a better understanding of the frequency and effects of meteorite strikes on the lunar surface. NASA isn’t only relying on its brave squadron of astronauts like the recently returned Artemis II crew to do the work, however. They need help from anyone willing to spend some time gazing up at the moon from here on Earth. For…
The developers are urging all developers who installed version 0.23.3 to take the following steps immediately: 1. Check your installed version: pip show elementary-data | grep Version 2. If the version is 0.23.3, uninstall it and replace it with the safe version: pip uninstall elementary-data pip install elementary-data==0.23.4 In your requirements and lockfiles, pin explicitly to elementary-data==0.23.4. 3. Delete your cache files to avoid any artifacts. 4. Check for the malware’s marker file on any machine where the CLI may have run: If this file is present, the payload executed on that machine. macOS / Linux: /tmp/.trinny-security-update Windows: %TEMP%\\.trinny-security-update 5.…
The developers of Magic: The Gathering Arena are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). In a public announcement today, a group of Wizards of the Coast (WOTC) employees announced they had a supermajority of individuals committed to a union, and invited WOTC and parent company Hasbro to voluntarily recognize the union and to remain neutral during ongoing unionization efforts. Speaking to Kotaku, senior software engineers Valentine Powell and Neil White shared that the group began unionizing a few years ago, with efforts initially sparked by two back-to-back rounds of mass layoffs that impacted around 2,000 individuals across all…
One idea given for the mysterious disappearance of Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago is a difference in brain power compared with early modern humans (Homo sapiens), who invaded their territory in Eurasia and outcompeted them. But a new study of brain variation reveals that Neanderthals and humans were much more alike than previously assumed.Neanderthal skulls are quite obviously different in shape from those of early modern humans. While Neanderthals had longer, lower skulls with heavier brow ridges and larger nasal openings, modern humans have more globular skulls with smaller facial features. The inside of the skull, called the endocranium, also…