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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. One of the country’s rarest coins is slightly rarer than even expert coin collectors believed. After the surprise discovery of a long-lost 1804 dollar (aka the “King of American Coins”), the rarity’s total known count now stands at 16. Regardless of its ranking, the silver coin is expected to fetch significantly more than its original worth when it hits the auction block on December 9. This 1804 dollar isn’t only famous for its rarity, but its history. According to auctioneers at Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the story…
The iPad has always been the perfect tablet. A great price, a good amount of performance, solid battery life, and a big enough screen. That’s why it’s even more noteworthy when this humble slate goes on sale. Cyber Monday iPad deals abound, but no, you don’t really need to buy that discounted iPad Pro that still costs nearly $1,000. Buy Apple’s entry-level iPad for $274 instead, and save your cash for all the other hours you’re not staring at this screen.For more discounts, check out our Best Cyber Monday Deals roundup.The Best iPad DealPhotograph: Brenda StolyarPhotograph: Brenda StolyarThe iPad A16…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33‘s European concert is selling out in record time. Megabonk is back in the running for The Game Awards. Also RIP to the fish that did what many players couldn’t. It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. Rockstar Games cofounder Dan Houser likened AI hype to “Mad Cow disease.” Every game store should add that as a disclaimer: this game was made using generative AI tools. It might slop-ify your brain as a result. Play at your own peril. The goldfish beat Malenia but couldn’t overcome a systemic bacterial…
Raspberry Pi is raising prices on many single-board computers, with increases going into effect immediately. The Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 modules are shooting up by $5 to $25, depending on the model and the included amount of RAM. The 16GB memory variants of the Compute Module 5 are going up by $20 and now start at $140.This is a bummer and we know who to thank. It’s the ultimate memory hog of all time, the AI industry.”The current pressure on memory prices, driven by competition from the AI infrastructure roll-out, is painful but ultimately temporary,” CEO Eben Upton wrote…
QUICK FACTSName: Roman sun hatWhat it is: A conical felted wool hatWhere it is from: Lahun, EgyptWhen it was made: Between A.D. 395 and 642This sun hat was made from different colors of felted wool in Egypt during the early Christian or Coptic period. It is one of only three such hats that has survived the ages and the best preserved of them. The sun hat was donated to the Chadwick Museum in Bolton, England — later called the Bolton Museum — by Sir Flinders Petrie, the English Egyptologist who found it in 1911.Petrie discovered the hat at the site…
“Come watch me trip balls,” declared Bryan Johnson, the “Don’t Die” longevity entrepreneur, on X a couple of days before he livestreamed himself consuming a high dose of psychedelic mushrooms at a psilocybin center in Oregon on Sunday.It marked the second act of his stunty new investigation into whether using psilocybin can improve almost 250 wellness biomarkers, including various measures of brain connectivity, cortisol levels, and testosterone.“There’s a potential for psychedelics to play a more important role in all of our lives, and wouldn’t it be amazing if it was also a longevity therapy,” Johnson proclaimed on the stream. Prior…
Neon Genesis Evangelion fans: Here’s a chance to live the series, so to speak. Pixelity, developer of an upcoming XR game trilogy based on the classic anime, will hold on-site focus group tests this month.The playtests will take place in Japan from December 19 to 21, and in California on December 19. Pixelity says it will use the same number of players at each venue. If you’re near either location, you can apply for access today on Pixelity’s X account.The XR trilogy, Evangelion: Cross Reflections, was announced earlier this year. The games will be set within the original anime’s timeline,…
I’m one of the many Elden Ring Nightreign players who’s been begging for DLC for months. Once it was finally revealed, I was a bit disappointed at how small it seemed. Fortunately, three new pieces of information have convinced me that I have been underestimating FromSoftware’s upcoming The Forsaken Hollows DLC. According to a new interview, it’ll be harder than the main game, feature a bigger reworking of the map than previously thought, and include the introduction of the Dark Souls studio’s signature poison swamps. Since the summer, it’s felt like the only way to really revitalize Nightreign was by…
At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching Deep Impact and Armageddon, two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ranking positions at space agencies. Don’t Look Up also provided a more modern, though more pessimistic (or, unfortunately, realistic?), look at what might potentially happen if a “killer” asteroid is found on approach to Earth. So far, life hasn’t imitated art when it comes to potentially one of the most catastrophic events in human history, but most space enthusiasts agree that it’s worth preparing for when it will. A new…
A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn’t even make it 4,000 feet.Russia’s military has been silent on the accident, but the missile’s crash was seen and heard for miles around the Dombarovsky air base in Orenburg Oblast near the Russian-Kazakh border.A video posted by the Russian blog site MilitaryRussia.ru on Telegram and widely shared on other social media platforms showed the missile veering off course immediately after launch before…