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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The Archaeopteryx is one of evolution’s most infamous species—but it’s also a very confusing creature. All present-day birds are technically dinosaurs, but the 150-million-year-old, raven-sized hunter is the earliest known example of an avian animal. At the same time, Archaeopteryx lived during the Jurassic Period among multiple other feathered dinosaurs that were not birds in the true sense of the term. But if it’s any consolation, it’s often still difficult for paleontologists to tell them apart, too. “For a long time, there have been…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s punishing dodge and parry windows are one of the RPG’s defining characteristics. Enemies basically do a little dance before they bring their weapon down on your party, and you’re expected to memorize and dodge every pattern lest you end up dead before your Gommage. Naturally, fans took this as a challenge, and one person has finally beaten Sandfall Interactive’s GOTY sweeper without taking any damage. YouTuber Hayete Bahadori has uploaded a four-hour Clair Obscur walkthrough showcasing a damageless run using only one party member in every fight the game allows. Three encounters require you to have…
A few months back, Huawei unveiled the Nova 14i smartphone in China, and now, it has finally made it available for buyers in Hong Kong. It is a rebadged version of the Nova Y91, also known as the Huawei Enjoy 60x, both of which were originally introduced around three years ago. As a result, the Nova 14i brings older internals under a refreshed product name. Huawei Nova 14i features The Nova 14i is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 chipset, which includes four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.4 GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores running at 1.9 GHz. The phone comes…
Peter Thiel—the billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal and Palantir cofounder, and outspoken commentator on all matters relating to the “Antichrist”—appears at least 2,200 times in the latest batch of files released by the Department of Justice related to convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.The tranche of records demonstrate how Epstein managed to cultivate an extensive network of wealthy and influential figures in Silicon Valley. A number of them, including Thiel, continued to interact with Epstein even after his 2008 guilty plea for solicitation of prostitution and of procurement of minors to engage in prostitution.The new files show that Thiel…
Anime fans won’t be getting any respite from the streaming service price hikes that now feel inevitable on every platform every couple of years. Crunchyroll announced today that it will be increasing the monthly costs for all its plans by $2. That means the Fan tier will now run you $10 a month, the Mega Fan Tier is $14 a month and the Ultimate Fan Tier is $18 a month.The platform introduced its Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan options in 2020, with both at long last giving viewers an option to watch shows offline. The silver lining in today’s price…
NASA astronaut Chris Williams will connect with students in Pennsylvania to answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 5, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. Media interested in covering the event must RSVP by 5 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 4, to Tamara Krizek at: 917-692-5038 or tamara.krizek@davincisciencecenter.org. The Da Vinci Science Center will host this event in Allentown, Pennsylvania, for students in kindergarten through grade 12, and members of the community. This unique opportunity aims to…
The largest manga piracy site in the world, BATO.TO, and “approximately 60 related sites” have been shut down, following a joint operation between the Shanghai Public Security Bureau of China and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. As spotted by NHK, this news comes via a report from the Japanese Content Overseas Distribution Organisation, also known as CODA, indicating that the home of a man “alleged to have operated the world’s largest manga piracy site” had been searched. Although the suspect in question, who was arrested on suspicion of copyright infringement, was detained on November 19, 2025, CODA’s report…
Philips has released the Evnia 27M2N5500XD gaming monitor in China. The display runs at 500 Hz at its native 2560 x 1440 resolution. Drop the resolution to 1280 x 720, and it reaches 1,000 Hz, beating the 720 Hz OLED gaming monitors announced recently. The 27-inch screen uses TCL CSOT’s HFS Shoot IPS panel, the same technology found in the AOC AGON AGP277QK. Philips first showed the monitor at the Esports Market Empowerment and High Resolution Gaming Display Trends Seminar in Beijing in late 2025. The panel has VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification. Peak brightness reaches 500 nits in HDR content…
Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is acquiring his AI startup xAI, the centibillionaire announced on Monday. In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions.“In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,” Musk wrote. “The only logical solution therefore is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space. I mean, space is called ‘space’ for a reason.”The deal,…
Moltbook bills itself as a social network for AI agents. That’s a wacky enough concept in the first place, but the site apparently exposed the credentials for thousands of its human users. The flaw was discovered by cybersecurity firm Wiz, and its team assisted Moltbook with addressing the vulnerability.The issue appears to be the result of the entire Reddit-style forum being vibe-coded; Moltbook’s human founder posted a few days ago on X that he “didn’t write one line of code” for the platform and instead directed an AI assistant to create the whole setup.According to the blog post from Wiz…