83% Off and 4 Free Months: The VPN Deal Everyone’s Talking About

You know that feeling when you get something dirt cheap and feel like you just pulled off a heist? Thats exactly how Private Internet Access makes its users feelevery single time. As we say, its a VPN that pays for itself. © Gizmodo.com Best of all, its practically pocket change and costs less than your average Starbucks coffee. Ready to make a change? Start with your online wellbeing! Obsolete, we should say....

April 14, 2025 · 2 min · 240 words · Susan Richards

A Double Sunblast Could Mean Auroras Over the U.S. This Week

The Sun undergoes an 11-year cycle during which its magnetic field flips direction, triggering changes on its surface. This cycle leads to the formation of sunspotsregions on the solar surface where magnetic field lines are especially intense. These sunspots often become hotspots for powerful solar activity, like flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). An X9.0 solar flare observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on last year.Image: NASA/SDO In other words, more geomagnetic storms can be expected as the Sun goes through its cycle....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 106 words · Tracie Vang

Crosswalks in Silicon Valley Hacked to Talk Like Musk and Zuckerberg

Welcome to Palo Alto, the home of Tesla engineering. You know the saying money cant buy happiness, I guess thats true. God knows Ive tried, but it can buy a Cybertruck and thats pretty sick, right? Comments on social media suggest the problems appear to have been resolved by Monday. Musk, at least, is well-liked by Republicans with 73% favorability for his alignment with President Trump. Zuckerberg is not beloved by either party....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Kathleen Kelley

David Zaslav Wants a Friendlier Relationship With Trump, Was Told to Be More Like Jeff Bezos

David Zaslav is looking for friends. Zaslav isnt the first to have this idea. The parallel is pretty simple. David Zaslav standing in front of a sign reading Max© Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Zaslav has basically nothing but airtime to offer, and Trump loves flattering coverage from the media. Plus, Zaslav might have some business hed probably like to fast-track through approval if he can. And if you want to do a media deal, youll definitely need Trump on your side....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 93 words · Beverly Johnston

Donkey Kong BananzaMade Me Want to Buy a Nintendo Switch 2

Ive never owned a Sega. From a very early age,Ive just always been been a Nintendo fan. I had the NES. We got our hands on some new Nintendo Switch 2 games.Image: Nintendo I had the Super Nintendo. And starting with Nintendo 64 back in 1996, I began buying each new console right after it launched. Buying those consoles was never about having the latest, greatest video game system, though....

April 14, 2025 · 3 min · 460 words · Caitlin Patrick

Eli Roth Says Pandemic Problems HurtBorderlands

TheBorderlandsmovie came out last year and was largely met withderision, thenindifference. What did the movie in? In case you forgot,Borderlandsbegan filming in 2021 during the early days of the covid-19 pandemic. © Lionsgate Back then, things were so chaotic because distancing protocols meant we couldnt prep in a room together. I couldnt be with my stunt people or do pre-vis, everyones spread all over the place. Making a big-budget movie at that size was a challenge, and a humbling one....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Kathleen Taylor

Most Carbon-Rich Asteroids Never Make It to Earth—and Now We Know Why

Carbonaceous asteroids are all over our solar system, both in the main belt and closer to Earth. The astronomical team wanted to understand what causes the discrepancy. Carbonaceous meteorites on Earth give scientists theunique opportunityto study some of the oldest material in our solar system. An artist’s illustration of asteroids near Earth.© NASA News from the future, delivered to your present. The Star Set to Explode Totally Flaked. A Partial Solar Eclipse Will Create Devil Horns on Saturday....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 78 words · Phillip Walsh

Redwood Materials Will Recycle Lime’s Batteries as China Withholds Key Metals

Lime ispartneringwith Redwood Materials to recycle batteries from its fleet of shared electric bikes and scooters. Among other things, Lime brought hardware development in-house and made its scooters and bikes significantly more durable. It also raised prices on rides to the chagrin of customers. Lime will partner with Redwood Materials to recycle batteries from its electric bikes and scooters.Lime Lime is rumored to beheading for an IPOafter posting 30% growth in bookings for 2024....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 181 words · William Riley

Researchers Develop a Soft Battery That Has the Consistency of Toothpaste

From our cell phones to our smartwatches and laptops, were surrounded by battery-powered devices. Embracing this idea, researchers in Sweden have developed a fluid battery that can be shaped into different forms. The novel soft structure paves the way for innovative designs of future battery-powered technology. Researchers have developed a soft, malleable battery.© both images by Thor Balkhed. Batteries are the largest component of all electronics. Today they are solid and quite bulky....

April 14, 2025 · 2 min · 264 words · John Oneill

Sick of Pesky IP Laws Slowing AI Growth, Tech Titans Think Everything Should be Public Now

The company also reiterated that it will not use private messages to train AI. Seems like maybe he should build that, then! Both Musk and Dorsey, of course, have used IP law to protect their own projects. A Facebook newsfeed page is displayed on a smartphone.© Screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram News from the future, delivered to your present. Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 71 words · Marvin King

The Apple Watch Should Be Getting a Glassy Makeover Later This Year

Last year, Applerevampedthe Apple Watch with a thinner chassis and larger, brighter OLED display. This year, the software that powers the wearable, watchOS, could be getting a much bigger makeover. In other words, the watch will provide a smaller taste of the big shifts underway at Apple. The Apple Watch Series 10 on display at Apple’s Glowtime event.© Florence Ion / Gizmodo Its a popular fixture of brutalist balconies in post-Soviet states and fancy homes built into hillsides....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 204 words · Steve Mueller

The Last of UsIs Back and Maybe Better Than Ever

But finding him is something they plan to do. And do it slowly. Five years later, were in Jackson, Wyoming and Ellie is a badass. Let’s saddle up and talk about the season 2 premiere of The Last of Us.Image: HBO Joel, on the other hand, seems like hes a little slower. Definitely a little grayer. And as he tinkers with some electrical junk, hes visited by Dina (Isabella Merced)....

April 14, 2025 · 3 min · 579 words · Gregory White

This Unassuming Mushroom Packs the Bitterest Taste Ever Measured

Would you eat the forbidden fungi? Scientists have uncovered a mushroom-derived compound that seems to be the most bitter substance known on Earth. The compound is one of three new bitter molecules discovered by studying the mushroom. Amaropostia Stiptica isn’t toxic, but you don’t want to taste it.© martinbishop via iNaturalist. Ourtaste budscan broadly pick out five distinctive types of taste, one of which is bitterness. Most of these compounds identified so far have come from flowering plants or are synthetically produced....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 189 words · Alison Jones