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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Just a few weeks ago, I had a long-haul flight to Europe from the East Coast. As I packed and prepared, excited about what was planned, I also wondered and worried: How the heck was I going to sleep on this eight-hour flight, so I wasn’t sleepwalking through sightseeing the next day? It’s a conundrum many of us have faced. There are TikTok videos, articles, products, and advice galore about how to meet the challenge. But what exactly does the science say? What’s the…

Final Fantasy XIV is joining forces with Evangelion to launch a 24-person raid series, Ghosts of Desire. Director Naoki Yoshida revealed the upcoming collaboration at the annual Final Fantasy XIV North American Fan Festival, as well as with several other game-changing announcements.According to Yoshida, a self-reported “huge Evangelion-otaku,” Evangelion studio Khara Inc. will be heavily involved in the raid’s creation. While the studio shared a brief teaser trailer for the upcoming raid, full details and a release date remain under lock.This news comes shortly after the announcement that Nier creator Yoko Taro is currently writing a new Evangelion film. Toru…

Two months following the deadly shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI’s Sam Altman has formally apologized for not informing police of the alarming ChatGPT conversations seen with the suspect’s account. Before the incident, OpenAI banned the account belonging to the alleged shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, for violating its usage policy due to potential for real-world violence.”I am deeply sorry that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June,” Altman wrote in the letter. “While I know words can never be enough, I believe an apology is necessary to recognize the harm and irreversible…

Oppo just refreshed its F-series in India with the new Oppo F33 and Oppo F33 Pro. The two phones share most of their specifications, with differences mainly in areas like the camera and design. The standard F33 has a rectangular camera module on the back that doesn’t look much different from last year’s model. The Pro model, however, introduces a larger camera plateau and a more noticeable visual identity, even if the influence from recent iPhone designs is hard to ignore. Oppo F33 Oppo F33 Pro The standard model is available in Pearl White and Forest Green, while the Oppo…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. New York’s Port Authority police are reportedly leaning on new digital surveillance tactics to crack down on  unlicensed taxi hustlers. These scammers operate at transit hubs across the city in a gray market that critics say exploits passengers and steals fares from licensed cab drivers.  The new enforcement effort is part of a $100 million initiative called Operation Legal Ride. Officers use controversial license plate readers to automatically scan every car that enters John F. Kennedy International Airport’s (JFK) five terminals, regardless of whether…

Assassin’s Creed Hexe lost its creative director, Clint Hocking, at the end of February. Two months later, it’s losing game director Benoit Richer, who departed to cofound an “indie studio of industry veterans, aligned around a shared vision of the industry and experience creation.” Richer joined Ubisoft back in 2017 after directing Batman: Arkham Origins at Warner Bros. Montreal. He led the French publisher’s 2018 VR psychological thriller Transference before becoming a game director on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and later Assassin’s Creed Hexe. He’s now the project’s second high-profile departure this year. Hocking, an Ubisoft veteran on Splinter Cell, Far…

Xiaomi looks set to bring another smart kitchen gadget to global markets. The upcoming Mijia Smart Steam Air Fryer 7L combines air frying with steam cooking, and even adds support for sous vide-style cooking. If it sounds familiar, that’s because Xiaomi already launched a similar model in China earlier. This version bumps the capacity up to 7 liters, making it more suitable for larger meals or batch cooking. In terms of features, it covers quite a bit. Xiaomi lists 10 cooking modes, including steaming, fermenting, dehydrating, defrosting, and reheating. The sous vide part is interesting here. Traditionally, that requires a…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The brain of a honeybee (Apis mellifera) weighs less than one milligram and contains fewer than one million neurons, but that may be more than enough for surprisingly complex calculations. For decades, cognitive researchers and biologists have debated just how much the seemingly simple insects can comprehend. The answer may sound inconsequential, but it has major implications for how intelligence functions and evolves across species. Now, a team at Monash University in Australia says they have a definitive answer about bee smarts: Earth’s vital…

For years, a standalone Venom seemed like an obvious play for Insomniac Games. Spider-Man 2 includes an entire level where he’s playable, and the studio already established its willingness to ship smaller spin-offs in between tentpole Spider-Man sequels. Despite references to the project leaking in hacked Insomniac files back in 2023, a Venom game has yet to materialize. Miles Morales actor Nadji Jeter addressed the confusion around the project in a new interview.  “Let me give y’all an exclusive,” Jeter told content creators Love it Film (via Insider Gaming). “We were going to have a Venom game. We were going…

Xiaomi seems to have revealed its next budget phone a bit earlier than planned. The Poco C81 Pro briefly showed up on the company’s global website before being taken down, but not before its specs were noticed. From what’s been spotted, this looks like a fairly straightforward entry-level device. The focus is on the basics, big screen, decent battery, and enough performance for everyday use. Up front, there’s a 6.9-inch LCD display with a 120Hz refresh rate and HD+ resolution. Brightness is listed at up to 800 nits, so it should hold up reasonably well outdoors. The phone runs on…