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Google just dropped its official list of the best apps, games, and books for 2025. The top picks are in, and it’s an interesting mix of big names and helpful indie tools.Google Play’s “Best of 2025” winners are hereThese awards are meant to honor the innovation that fuels the platform. This year, the top app, Focus Friend, was praised in the announcement as a simple yet effective tool for helping users stay present and “disconnect in order to reconnect” from all the noise.How these picks stack up Google Play ‘Best of’ badge. | Image credit — Google It’s always a…
Xbox has the last batch of Game Pass additions for November along with a couple of titles that are coming to the service in December. Starting today, though, Game Pass Ultimate subscribers have a subscription at no extra cost.That includes access to the current Fortnite battle pass, along with the OG pass, Lego pass, music pass and Rocket League’s rocket pass premium. On top of that, Fortnite Crew puts 1,000 V-Bucks in subscribers’ wallets every month.Microsoft announced Fortnite Crew as a perk for Game Pass Premium in early October, when it jacked up the price of the service . Still,…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Scientists have confirmed a never-before-seen type of insect behavior. In a study published in the journal Current Biology, behavioral ecologists at Japan’s Kyushu University describe two species of ants that engage in matricide, killing a colony’s queen. But the spark that ignites the uprising isn’t generated from within. According to researchers, the queen’s downfall begins with chemical coercion instigated by outside, parasite ant agitators. The insect and arachnid worlds are full of examples of males getting a raw deal. Numerous female spiders promptly devour their partners…
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Apple’s iPhone 17 sales period is going great, and a new Counterpoint research shows that the Cupertino giant is experiencing quite the success in a somewhat surprising market – China. New research shows the iPhone 17 is well-liked in China According to the report, one in every four smartphones sold in China for the month of October is an iPhone. Basically, this is a jump of 37% compared to a year earlier. The Cupertino tech giant has been unable to reach this success since 2022. And by the way, back then, there weren’t as many competitors in the premium smartphone…
Gaming laptops require serious hardware in order to run modern titles at high settings without thermal throttling or performance compromises during extended sessions. The Asus ROG Strix G16 (2025 edition) packs flagship-tier components into a portable package, and it is now $1,699 down from the usual $2,199 price tag. That’s a record low for Black Friday on Amazon and it feels aggressive; after all, this is a 2025 model that just launched earlier this year. You’re getting an AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX processor paired with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU, 32GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 1TB PCIe…
Mastodon’s founder Eugen Rochko has officially stepped down as CEO. The move comes ten months after the company announced it would transition into a nonprofit entity and that Rochko would leave his post. Rochko will take on an advisory role with the company.In a blog post about this decision, Rochko pointed to a desire for guardrails to avoid becoming another egotistical founder “sabotaging thriving communities.” He added, “But it would be uncouth for me to pretend that there isn’t some self-interest involved. Being in charge of a social media project is, turns out, quite the stressful endeavour, and I don’t…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It’s the kind of “scale shock” that isn’t all that shocking. For those of us brave enough to step onto the scale the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas, you can sometimes see an increase of up to five to 10 pounds. Sure, you might have filled up on appetizers and cocktails before even sitting down at the table, then had that extra helping of mashed potatoes…and then dug into that pumpkin pie with whipped cream. But even with all that, have you really gained that much…
WhatsApp’s mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone’s phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they’re on the service, and often their profile picture and name, too.Repeat that same trick a few billion times with every possible phone number, it turns out, and the same feature can also serve as a convenient way to obtain the cell number of virtually every WhatsApp user on earth—along with, in many cases, profile photos and text that identifies each of those users. The result is a sprawling exposure of…
GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The best Sims 4 expansion packs and DLC are the ones that open up new avenues for creativity and give your Sims a richer daily life. Sure, The Sims 4 is a free to play game, but that doesn’t stop us from wanting more–more experiences, more adventures, and more items. The iconic life simulator has over 100 bits of add-on DLC available from kits of household clutter to adding werewolves and vampires into the base game.The Sims 4 has four main types…