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A certified metal detectorist who was scanning in a field near Leipzig, Germany, discovered the oldest coin ever found in the state of Saxony. The 2,200-year-old gold coin, known as a “rainbow cup,” is a rare example of imported Celtic currency.”The gold coin is a tangible piece of our history and provides new insights into trade with the Celts,” Saxony’s state minister, Barbara Klepsch, said in a translated statement Oct. 27.While numerous Celtic coins have been found in Bohemia in the northwest Czech Republic, Saxony is considered outside the Celtic settlement area. Only two Celtic coins had previously been discovered…
OpenAI has started selling power users extra credits for its Sora AI video generation tool. An extra 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple’s App Store. The company currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day, a rate that will likely decrease as OpenAI starts to monetize the offering. Bill Peebles, who heads OpenAI’s Sora, posted on X about the changes.”Eventually we will need to bring the free gens down to accommodate growth (we won’t have enough gpus to do it otherwise!), but we’ll be transparent as it happens,” he said.Peebles also said that OpenAI plans…
As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps this weekend, far-right influencers, extremists, and conspiracy theorists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits.As a result of the government shutdown, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not be funded as of November 1, according to a message on the website of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the program. While this loss of benefits could be catastrophic for millions, that hasn’t stopped the rush of disinformation. A number of conspiracy theorists and right-wing influencers are claiming that immigrants are…
During the summer, after AT&T reported its second quarter earnings, we made a point of telling you about the 17-basis point jump in AT&T’s postpaid phone churn to .87% from the .70% reported during the same quarter last year. Churn is the percentage of a wireless firm’s customers that discontinue their service during a specific period of time, usually one quarter. Carriers want to report a lower churn.AT&T’s Q3 postpaid phone churn rose 14 basis points year-over-yearAT&T recently released its third quarter results and postpaid phone churn was .92%, which was up 14 basis points from the .78% reported during…
People online seem tired of crossover skins and silly cosmetics in games like Call of Duty and Battlefield. And now one of the lead devs behind online shooter Arc Raiders has promised that you won’t see Santa Claus or dinosaur outfits in the newly released live-service game. The latest big hit on Steam is multiplayer extraction shooter Arc Raiders. It launched on October 30 on consoles and PC and quickly racked up over 200k concurrent players on Steam. And being an online game in 2025 means offering up cosmetics for players to earn or purchase. Arc Raiders is no exception,…
By now, I have a well-established routine when I set up a new pair of Meta smart glasses. I connect my Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify accounts. I complete the slightly convoluted steps in my Bluetooth settings to make sure Meta AI can announce incoming phone calls and text messages. I tweak the video settings to the highest quality available, and change the voice of Meta AI to “English (UK)” so it can talk to me in the voice of Judi Dench.But with the $499 Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, there’s also a new step: deciding what the customizable “action button” should…
Louise Matsakis: Oh God, you would not see me in the office for weeks if there was a bedbug infestation. How did they find out about this?Zoë Schiffer: So basically, they received this email on Sunday, saying that exterminators had arrived at the scene with sniffer dogs and “found credible evidence of their presence.” There, being the bedbugs. Sources tell WIRED that Google’s offices in New York are home to a number of large stuffed animals, and there was definitely a rumor going around among employees that these stuffed animals were implicated in the outbreak. We were not able to…
Scientists have found two pairs of merging black holes, and they think the larger one in each merger is a rare “second-generation” veteran of a previous collision.The two larger black holes’ unusual behavior, observed through ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, was described Oct. 28 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.The telltale clue was twofold: In each merger, the larger black hole was spinning rapidly and was significantly more massive than the partner black hole it swallowed. The events were observed with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, a set of gravitational-wave detectors around the world aiming to observe space-shaking events like black hole…
What’s new with One UI 8.5 notificationsWe’ve all got notification clutter, and Samsung is gearing up for its next attempt to fix it. A new leaked build of One UI 8.5 has been spotted in a new report, and this time, the “Priority notifications” feature is actually working. This feature was seen in a previous leak, but it was broken. Now we have our first look at how it will function.How priority notifications will reportedly workThe feature’s description says it finds “notifications that may be important” and sticks them “above other notifications to make sure you don’t miss them.” Screenshots…
The future of Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, subscription-free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud, was uncertain after the apps’ developer Serif was acquired by Canva in 2024. Now, over a year later, the changes Canva has introduced are big, but not necessarily unwelcome. The newly relaunched Affinity by Canva combines all three apps into a single piece of illustration, photo editing and layout software, and rather than move to a subscription model as many feared, Canva’s made it entirely free. Or, at least, freemium.Affinity is available now as a desktop app for macOS and Windows, with an iPadOS version on…