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Power outages, camping trips and outdoor events all share one frustrating problem: you need electricity where there isn’t any or you can’t rely on the grid to stay up when you need it most. Portable power stations solve this by packing serious battery capacity into something you can actually move around and EcoFlow’s Delta 3 just hit an all-time low of $519 on Amazon, dropped from its usual $699 price. This 1024Wh unit can power 13 devices simultaneously, charges from dead to full in under an hour, and uses LiFePO4 battery chemistry that’s rated for 4000 cycles over a 10-year…
It’s been four years since Nothing launched its Ear (1) and the London-based brand is now an established player in the TWS market. Enter the Nothing Ear (3) – its latest flagship wireless earbuds with the now recognizable transparent look and some key improvements. While Nothing’s naming scheme hasn’t always been the most consistent, its earbuds have offered impressive hardware paired with a polished software experience. Ear (3) comes in with a more premium build, a dedicated microphone in the case and claims of improved sound output and superior noise cancellation. Did Nothing deliver a winner with the Ear (3),…
Back in our day, phones used to come with chargers – now you’re lucky if you get a cable. The good news is that USB-C and USB charging standards have done away with the compatibility issue of the past (well, mostly), so a few good chargers are all you need. That means that you have to pick the chargers yourself, though. Here are the ones we use. And yes, you do need multiple – for your home, maybe for work and your car, maybe for travel. We have separated them into groups based on use-case. Table of Contents: Wall chargers…
After four weeks at the top, the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max was finally dethroned as the most popular phone in our database. The Chinese maker won’t be too sad about it, though, as it’s replaced at the top by the newly announced Redmi K90 Pro Max. The third spot went to the Samsung Galaxy A56, which began another slow climb up the ranks, followed by the Galaxy S25 Ultra in fourth. The iPhone 17 Pro Max retained its fifth position as the Oppo Find X9 Pro climbed to sixth. With the global launch expected next week, Oppo’s new flagship…
According to a report from The Information, OpenAI is interested in developing a tool that could generate music from text and audio prompts, and has been working with students from The Juilliard School to help with creating training data. The company envisions something that could be used to generate guitar accompaniment for a vocal track, for example, or to add music to videos, sources with knowledge of the project told the publication.There’s no word on how far into these efforts OpenAI is. According to one source that spoke to The Information, OpenAI enlisted the Juilliard students to annotate music scores,…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. With its long history of incarceration, brutal conditions, and several grisly murders, the stories of hauntings on Alcatraz Island are a dime a dozen. There are tales of apparitions, cries coming from inside prison walls, and the sounds of phantom cannons and gunshots. Alcatraz sits just over a mile from San Francisco in the waters of San Francisco Bay. Its decaying structures are cold, empty, often shrouded in fog and brimming with tales of mayhem and mystery—all factors that make the island a choice breeding ground…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It’s hard not to admire marathon and ultra-runners for their physical stamina and prowess. They’re not only inspirational, but are also testing the limits of human biology with their mental grit and muscle strength by logging hundreds of miles and days at a time. According to a study published today in the journal Current Biology, even the most extreme endurance athletes cannot surpass a certain level of calorie burning. All living things need to burn a certain number of calories just to stay alive. The basal…
That seemingly changes as of now, with new argon dating of strata from the Naashoibito Member in the San Juan Basin of present-day New Mexico. Many dinosaur fossils have been obtained from this region, and we know the site differs from the sort of ecosystem found at Hell Creek. But it was previously thought to date back closer to a million years before the mass extinction. The new dates, plus the alignment of magnetic field reversals, tell us that the ecosystem was a contemporary of the one in Hell Creek, and dates to the last few hundred thousand years prior…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. This week, conservationists began their annual bison capture operation at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. However, the corral doesn’t rely on a team of rustlers on horseback. Organizers will round-up this year’s estimated 700 bison using a more modern technology–a helicopter. A bison roundup like this one isn’t for sport. It’s integral to maintaining the larger herd’s health and appropriate population size on federally protected land. Ahead of last year’s multiday project, park experts explained that the proactive approach allows officials to minimize…
On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than feeding it any old “low quality” junk you can find. Now, a group of researchers is attempting to quantify just how much this kind of low quality data can cause an LLM to experience effects akin to human “brain rot.” For a pre-print paper published this month, the researchers from Texas A&M, the University of Texas, and Purdue University drew inspiration from existing research showing how humans who consume “large volumes of trivial and unchallenging online content” can develop problems…