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Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have identified new ways to combat tuberculosis and reduce bacterial resistance, developing three new antibiotics derived from scorpion venom and habanero peppers.A team led by Lourival Domingos Possani Postay, from the Institute of Biotechnology’s Morelos campus, created two drugs that demonstrated efficacy against the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, responsible for tuberculosis, as well as against Staphylococcus aureus, a microorganism that in hospital environments can cause various clinical complications, from skin infections to potentially fatal diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, septicemia, and endocarditis.The antibiotics were derived from the venom of the scorpion Diplocentrus…

Following the announcement of its most recent financial results, Nintendo has revealed a price increase for the Switch 2, due to impact customers from September 1. From that date, the Switch 2 will jump to $450, a 12.5 percent increase for a system that’s not even a year old. Rumors that a price surge for the new Switch model were circulating earlier in the week, with word out that investors were pressing Nintendo to seek more profit after share prices failed to recognize just how well the Switch 2 launch has gone. Bloomberg accurately predicted that the earnings report would be…

In late March, Russian company Bureau 1440 brought into low orbit the first 16 broadband internet satellites of the new Rassvet constellation, already dubbed by observers and local media the Russian answer to SpaceX’s Starlink. It’s an ambitious global internet project that experts say could conceal much broader strategic goals, with functions including military and communications control.The launch took place on March 23 at 8:24 pm Moscow time from the military’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome using the Soyuz-2.1B launcher, and marked the first step in building an infrastructure that is expected to have at least 300 satellites by 2030.“The launch marks the…

One thing I appreciate about a lot of coming-of-age stories is that they end up suggesting that navigating some degree of neurosis, as I’ve done since I was a teenager, is actually a pretty universal experience. The subgenre is by definition confessional, penned by adults looking back at the awkward, thorny, and impossibly large feelings of youth and the ways we cope with all that change. Mixtape, a game about a teenage girl who tries to link every memorable moment of her life to a fitting song, is coming-of-age comfort food for anyone who’s ever been fixated on music as…

Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the partisan echo chambers, the concentration of influence among a small group of elite users (attention inequality), and the amplification of the most extreme divisive voices. He wasn’t optimistic about social media’s future. Törnberg’s research showed that, while numerous platform-level intervention strategies have been proposed to combat these issues, none are likely to be effective. And it’s not the fault of much-hated algorithms, non-chronological feeds, or our human proclivity for…

Yesterday, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen announced that he was selling a bunch of stuff on eBay to try to fund the Funko Pop store’s proposed $56 billion bid for the online reseller site. The stunt follows criticisms that the executive doesn’t have enough cash to actually make that acquisition. But it appears that at least some of the items being auctioned could be remnants looted from the legendary Game Informer Vault, where the long-running publication housed decades of video game history before GameStop shut down the publication in 2024. Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi posted on Bluesky accusing Cohen…

The Air “pebble” slots into bands from the bottom. Credit: Google The Air “pebble” slots into bands from the bottom. Credit: Google The Fitbit Air will have all the standard wearable health sensors: heart rate, accelerometer/gyroscope, infrared SpO2, and skin temperature. Google notes that the heart rate monitor isn’t as advanced as the one in the latest Pixel Watches, so the Air might not be as accurate during vigorous activity. The Air also has a vibration motor that can be used for alarms, but it’s not going to buzz for phone notifications like a smartwatch. The Fitbit Air launches on…

Sony purchased Bungie for $3.6 million back in 2022 on the eve of Destiny 2‘s best expansion ever. Just over four years later, the PlayStation 5 maker is recording a $560 million impairment cost for its fourth quarter of the 2025 fiscal year, which closed just four weeks after the launch of Marathon. The company pointed to, “Recording of impairment losses against Bungie, Inc.’s intangible and other assets (Q2: 31.5 bln yen, Q4: 88.6 bln yen, FY25 total: 120.1 bln yen),” to explain the negative factors impacting its otherwise decent performance. Sony recorded a total of nearly $765 million lost…

Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States.The widely used digital learning platform Canvas was put into “maintenance mode” on Thursday after its maker, the education tech giant Instructure, suffered a data breach and faced an extortion attempt by attackers using the recognizable moniker “ShinyHunters.” Though the hackers have been advertising the breach and attempting to extract a ransom payment from Instructure since May 1, the situation took…

Civilization 7 just announced its Test of Time update, coming May 19. Firaxis is calling it the 4X strategy game’s “most fundamentally game-changing” patch since it launched back in February 2025. One of the major changes it makes is to civilizations. Players will now be able to stick with a single civilization through an entire match rather than being forced to switch at each new age. Switching civilizations was one of the most controversial mechanics added to the long-running franchise, and making it optional is a big milestone yet for Civilization 7 on its post-launch road to redemption. “By far…