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Google has introduced Gemini 3, its smartest artificial intelligence model to date, with cutting-edge reasoning, multimedia, and coding skills. As talk of an AI bubble grows, the company is keen to stress that its latest release is more than just a clever model and chatbot—it’s a way of improving Google’s existing products, including its lucrative search business, starting today.“We are the engine room of Google, and we’re plugging in AI everywhere now,” Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, an AI-focused subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, told WIRED in an interview ahead of the announcement.Hassabis admits that the AI market…
External hard drives (HDD) crawl along at speeds that turn simple file transfers into boring experiences, maxing out around 120MB/s for spinning platters. Solid-state drives (SSDs) eliminate mechanical parts entirely, using flash memory that reads and writes data at speeds ten times faster than traditional HDDs. The SanDisk 2TB Extreme portable SSD delivers NVMe performance in a pocket-sized package, now sitting at $162 instead of the usual $209 price tag. This marks an all-time low for this capacity, with Amazon wanting to clear inventory before Black Friday ends. See at Amazon 1,050MB/s Read Speeds This SanDisk SSD pushes read speeds…
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…