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I attended the Concours of Elegance 2025 on Friday, 5 September, which was the Owners’ and VIP Day. I had been looking forward to the event with great excitement. This show always has a relaxed, leisurely atmosphere and a wonderful selection of highly desirable cars. It’s one of the highlights of my year when it comes to car events – a show I would never want to miss. As always, I took plenty of photos at Concours of Elegance. A few are in the gallery below, while over 100 more can be found in my photo album on our Facebook…

Other Hall Effect Keyboards to ConsiderAsus Falchion Ace HFX Photograph: Henri RobbinsAsus Falchion Ace HFX for $200: The Falchion Ace HFX (7/10, WIRED Recommends) has a lot of unique features, and underneath them, it’s genuinely a solid Hall effect keyboard. Small details like a touchpad and a physical rapid-trigger switch, paired with big-ticket items like an 8,000-Hz polling rate and one of the better customization software available, make this keyboard both intuitive for daily use and powerful for high-speed gaming. It feels good to type on, looks good, and can be customized extensively without needing to close your game or…

Disney+ has Star Wars and Paramount+ has Star Trek, so it’s about time Amazon gets its own sci-fi franchise with “star” in the title. Prime Video has just greenlit a TV revival of the iconic Stargate franchise, . This will be the fourth major TV show in the series, following the first movie.We don’t know anything about the plot and where it fits into the decades-long mythology but we do know that the showrunner is Martin Gero. He’s a veteran of the IP, having cut his teeth in the industry while working on Stargate: Atlantis back in the early 2000s.…

Faculty Advisors: Daniel Sousa, San Diego State University  Graduate Mentor: Megan Ward-Baranyay, San Diego State University  Robert Purvis, Western Kentucky University  Lichens, a symbiotic relationship between a fungus (mycobiont) and green algae or cyanobacterium (photobiont), occur globally with great variability in form and function. On the North American west coast, Ramalina menziesii is a robust lichen with net-like morphology found across three distinct biomes. In the mediterranean climate of coastal California, R. menziesii can survive with thallus water content as low as 13%, making the lichen a powerful medium for wildfire spread. As a late-successional community member, changes in wildfire…

Samsung’s Galaxy Ultra phones have always been about big specs and standout displays. But the latest Galaxy S26 Ultra rumors hints at something more: a new Flex Magic Pixel feature, a hardware-level, privacy screen that makes the display hard to read from the side. Yep, you should be able to toggle this with just a tap, no actual screen protector required.This is the kind of subtle and practical innovation that could give Samsung’s flagship a real competitive edge beyond just the specs.Come to think about it, Samsung’s Ultra models have always relied on displays and camera hardware to stand out.…

If there’s one thing I really appreciate about Deadpool VR, out now exclusively on Quest 3 and Quest 3S virtual reality headsets, it’s how the first-person action-shooter lets you know right away what it is. The opening minutes of the game feature Neil Patrick Harris as Wade Wilson aka Deadpool, carrying out his wild plan to use a jeep filled with explosives to blast open a hole in a large aircraft taken over by an evil group of ninjas. If you like what this opening offers, the rest of the game only gets better. But if you can’t stand Deadpool…

Zoë Schiffer: So shifting gears, our next story deals with another inescapable fact of modern life, which is scam text messages. Brian, how many scam texts or calls would you say you receive in a given week these days?Brian Barrett: I mean, how many have I received during this recording? It is incessant, and that’s not even counting the political ones, which are legit but annoying. No, they are constant, Zoë. It is the most consistent communication I have in my life is from scammers.Zoë Schiffer: Yes, same. So, we don’t really have a way to know for sure, but…

It’s well-documented that many students use ChatGPT to do their homework for them, and now OpenAI would like teachers to use it to write those student’s homework, too. The company hopes to entice K-12 school employees to work with its AI models via the newly announced ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of the AI assistant that’s secure enough to be used in a school environment and free until June 2027.OpenAI pitches this new ChatGPT as a way for educators to create material for the classroom, “and get comfortable using AI on their own terms.” ChatGPT for Teachers includes unlimited messages…

Price hikes in 2026 for smartphones are not out of the question, not at all. In recent weeks, we’ve often talked about it:Sporadic leaks claim the Galaxy S26 family could be spared this fate, but until Samsung announces it on stage, nothing is certain.What’s more, no Galaxy S26 price hikes would be a miracle, since Xiaomi President Lu Weibing has once again issued a warning about higher gadget prices in 2026.But why? Xiaomi 15T for reference. | Image by PhoneArena As Reuters reports, Xiaomi’s predictions are based on the extra-high prices of memory chips right now – and, thanks to…

Faculty Advisors: Andreas Beyersdorf, California State University, San Bernardino  Graduate Mentor: Bradley Ries, University of California, Riverside  Martha Santiago, Northwestern University  Although air quality has improved across the United States since the passage of the Clean Air  Act in 1970, air pollution remains an issue for millions of Americans. Livestock, fertilizers, and pesticides can release pollutants into the surrounding environment, which may be associated with adverse health effects like asthma and cardiovascular disease, in nearby populations. Because some aerosols are tracers for agriculture, examining aerosol concentrations and composition can help better understand sources and impacts of air pollution. Here, we…