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The flagship Android space in 2026 is no longer about one phone doing everything best. The OnePlus 15 and Vivo X300 take two clearly different approaches, one built around raw performance and ultra-fast charging, the other centered on camera quality, display impact, and everyday refinement. Both target premium buyers, yet their priorities could not be more different. This comparison looks beyond specs to highlight which phone feels more satisfying in real-world use, and which one delivers better value depending on what matters most. FeatureOnePlus 15Vivo X300Winner Design & BuildPremium feel with stronger durability and IP ratingSleeker, more refined everyday designVivo…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. February 1Full Snow MoonFebruary 8Alpha Centaurids Meteor Shower Predicted PeakFebruary 28Six Planets in AlignmentAll Month and YearPossible Auroras February: it’s a short month, and it’s also relatively short on stargazing highlights. Still, patient stargazers will be rewarded with a memorable planetary alignment. And for those readers joining us from the Southern Hemisphere, there’s also the Alpha Centaurids meteor shower to look forward to. February 1: Full Snow Moon This month’s full moon falls on the very first day of the month, which means we…
Jennifer Hale–most famously known for Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect trilogy–has been confirmed to voice Jetpack Cat in Overwatch. The flying feline is one of five new heroes coming to the game on February 10 for The Reign of Talon, Season 1.The Express Tribune reported that Hale will be providing the meows for Jetpack Cat in the newly renamed game, which is now just Overwatch by ditching the 2. The title change is part of a major overhaul of the online FPS. As for Hale (who also voices Ashe in the game), Overwatch audio and technical director Scott Lawson…
The State Department is wiping the post history of its X accounts and making it so you’ll have to file a Freedom of Information Act request if you want to access any of the content it removed, according to NPR. The publication reports that the State Department is removing all posts from before President Trump’s current term — a move that affects several accounts associated with the department, including those for US embassies, and posts from the Biden and Obama administrations. Posts from Trump’s first term will be taken down too.Unlike how past administrations have handled the removal of social…
Engineers at Blue Origin have been grappling with a seemingly eternal debate that involves the New Glenn rocket and the economics of flying it. The debate goes back at least 15 years, to the early discussions around the design of the heavy lift rocket. The first stage, of course, would be fully reusable. But what about the upper stage of New Glenn, powered by two large BE-3U engines? Around the same time, in the early 2010s, SpaceX was also trading the economics of reusing the second stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. Eventually SpaceX founder Elon Musk abandoned his goal…
A new report shines some light on the Trump T1 Phone that supposedly has generated 590,000 pre-orders, each reserved with a $100 payment. This fresh look at the device comes not terribly long after Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and 10 other Democrats asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Trump Mobile for collecting $59 million in pre-order revenue starting last June. Originally scheduled to ship in August or September, the phone has been delayed and is now supposedly going to be released later this year.Trump Mobile executive shows off the Trump T1 Phone in a video callThose who previously paid…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. If Google keeps bothering you to pay for cloud storage, it’s not just you. You only get a relatively measly 15GB of storage free of charge with a Google account, and you have to split that across Gmail, Google Photos, and Google Drive. That 15GB can fill up quickly, but it doesn’t have to. We’ve curated a few tricks to help trim down space in all three of these key Google apps. That can mean you won’t have to pay Google every month for…
Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery isn’t quite a done deal yet. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Justice has started its probe of Netflix’s proposed purchase, but is notably interested in whether the streaming giant was involved in any anticompetitive practices. According to the civil subpoena seen by WSJ, the Justice Department is looking into any “exclusionary conduct on the part of Netflix that would reasonably appear capable of entrenching market or monopoly power.”While Netflix announced plans to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in December at a value of $82.7 billion, the deal was…
Nintendo and Illumination are clearly delving deeper into Super Mario lore with the latest Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer. The footage leans hard into Super Mario Galaxy-style visuals to show this isn’t just more Mushroom Kingdom shenanigans. We have warp-star travel ripped straight from the Wii classics, as well as the mysterious Rosalina stepping into the spotlight–all building hype for the film’s April 1 release.It delivers trippy moments like Yoshi eating Kamek and more of Bowser Jr.’s chaotic gremlin energy, all the while Mario and Luigi join up with new alliances, fend off new rivalries, and explore a much bigger…
On the road with AI The Waymo World Model is not just a straight port of Genie 3 with dashcam videos stuffed inside. Waymo and DeepMind used a specialized post-training process to make the new model generate both 2D video and 3D lidar outputs of the same scene. While cameras are great for visualizing fine details, Waymo says lidar is necessary to add critical depth information to what a self-driving car “sees” on the road—maybe someone should tell Tesla about that. Using a world model allows Waymo to take video from its vehicles and use prompts to change the route…