Google Pixel Screenshots App Isn’t a Privacy Nightmare Like Microsoft Recall

My screenshots are like barnacles adhered all over my organized Google Photos app. I take screen grabs as a catch-all for events, notes, and receipts I need to remember. Pixel Screenshots solves this issue by offering a specific app to search through my screen grabs. The Pixel Screenshots app automatically adds titles and descriptions to your screenshots, making them much easier to search for.Photo: Artem Golub / Gizmodo The feature uses Gemini Nano to identify text and comprehend images in the app....

August 14, 2024 · 2 min · 255 words · Emily Duke

Help Track Down Baby Black Holes Using This Citizen Science App

Thanks to a newly expanded app, more amateur astronomers can now join the hunt for black holes. Thats where citizen scientistsand the newly updated appcome in. They are then tasked with looking for potential kilonovasbrief flashes of light resulting from neutron stars merging. You could be the amateur astronomer who discovers the next black hole.© NASA/JPL-Caltech Those collisions lead to a stellar collapse, forming a black hole. However, not all flashes of light seen by the telescopes are kilonovas....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 176 words · Donna Santos

Kraven the Hunter‘s New Trailer Is a Bloody, Brutal Mess

Sonyhas just released a gory new trailer forKraven the Hunter, its latest in along stringofSpider-Manspinoff movies. This time, were focusing on the mad big game hunter, Sergei Nikolaevich Kravinoff. Hes kind of like Jigsaw meets Fred Jones, by way of the MGM lion.Fur is back, baby. © Sony Pictures And hey, its the Rhino! With the pants and the horn and everything. Its currently scheduled for a December 13, 2024 theatrical release date....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 85 words · Paul Beard

Latest Apple Leak Offers the Best Look at the iPhone 16’s Vertical Camera Stack

Theres also some video of the new iPhone 16 colorways. PerReddit, aWeibo userposted alleged photos of models that purport to be the iPhone 16. They seem on par with what the gossip pages have been latching on to for the past year. Two dummy units of the iPhone 16 are making the rounds on social media.© Weibo User SmartCat Theres also been a video making the rounds that shows the iPhone 16 dummy units in various colorways....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 127 words · Tracey Cline

NASA’s Abandoned Moon Bot Might Get a Rescue Mission From a Lunar Startup

The decision, however, sparked outrage from the science community over the loss of the precious robot. The lunar lander managed to touchdown on the lunar surface, but its landing wasnt so smooth. Hopefully, itll have better luck with VIPER. The VIPER rover was supposed to launch in late 2023.NASA/Helen Arase Vargas The rover would then launch sometime in late 2027. NASA has turned to the private sector for help before....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 78 words · Nicole Werner

NASA’s Quantum Cold Atom Lab Just Made Space Even Cooler—Literally

Thats even colder than space, whichexhibitsan ambient temperature 2.725 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero. The results of the latest experiment is detailed in a recentstudypublished inNature Communications. The Cold Atom Lab takes advantage of the microgravity environment on board the ISS to study quantum phenomena. NASA’s Cold Atom Lab on board the ISS.NASA/JPL-Caltech The lab cools atoms to almost absolute zero, or -459 degrees Fahrenheit (-273 degrees Celsius). As a result, the atoms properties are easier to observe....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 119 words · Thomas Cortez

New Study Links Shingles to Cognitive Decline

The findings appear to bolster the growing idea that the shingles vaccine can be protective against dementia. Some people will also develop lingering nerve pain that can last for years. But this remains contentious and some studies have failed to support such a connection. MRI brain scansImage: Nur Ceren Demir/Getty Overall, nearly 150,000 people were included in their analysis. Those who reported having shingles were noticeably more likely to report having some cognitive decline, the researchers found....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 139 words · Rick Pace

Olympic Boxer’s Cyberbullying Lawsuit Names JK Rowling and Elon Musk

Acriminal complaintfiled by Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif has named Elon Musk and JK Rowling. The focus of the lawsuit is broad. Khelif is an Algerian boxer who took home the gold while facing a swarm of online harassment. J. K. Rowling arrives for the Guinness Six Nations match at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. Picture date: Saturday February 24, 2024.© Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images...

August 14, 2024 · 2 min · 292 words · Tiffany Hall

Rings of Power‘s New Trailer Hints at Some Surprising Alliances

But you know what they say about dark times? Except for Sauron maybe. He seems to be having a pretty solid time, all in all. © Amazon Its kinda his show for now! Hell get whatscoming to him eventually. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerreturns to Amazon in a few weeks, on August 29. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. You May Also Like Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 98 words · Kristina Brown

Stream These Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Movies on Netflix Now

Far more pressing is the idea that there aretoo manygood things on TV. Life Have you heard of this guyRyan Reynolds? after the series finale? Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire© Sony Pictures Releasing (The original, full-cover versionis also still streaming.) Watchon Netflix(as well asSpider-Man 2andSpider-Man 3). Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Get your finest dark clothing and all your creepy things, part one ofWednesdayseason two is dropping in August....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 74 words · Louis Garcia

Taylor Swift Pulling a 9/11 Gives Companies a Whole New Reason to Advertise on X

Elon Musks Grok AI is so dated and boring that its repeating controversies from a year ago. Grok-2 is the latest iteration of xAIs large language model. X users who pay for a sub can use its bold new feature: text-to-image generation. Elon Musk freebasing cocaine while a television behind him plays footage of 9/11.© Image generated by Grok. Sure, Grok can do that. But in practice, itll do whatever you want if you know how to ask....

August 14, 2024 · 2 min · 300 words · Mr. Charles Cook

The Fascinating Story BehindDeadpool & Wolverine‘s Emotional Climax

A choir sings Madonnas Like a Prayer. Deadpool attempts to destroy the Time Ripper but cant do it himself. Its a powerful moment and thebig finale toDeadpool & Wolverinebut the sequence took a long time to get there. Deadpool and Wolverine watch footage with director Shawn Levy.Marvel Studios Its a throwback to these 80s action movies and were just going to indulge in it. And this song allows us to laugh....

August 14, 2024 · 2 min · 399 words · Paul Newton

Walton Goggins Was Thoroughly, Ghoulishly Prepared to PlayFallout‘s Ghoul

To say its both thorough and detail-obsessed would be an understatement. He is a 1950s western-movie star. So I really wanted to understand who his contemporaries were. © Prime Video What jobs did he lose out on? What jobs did he get?, Goggins told Vulture. Whenever you say, on paper,Oh, hes been alive for 200 years. Thats hard to wrap your head around, Goggins said. I dont think about it in those terms....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 211 words · Joyce Martin