One of the biggest problems with the Nintendo Switch was its overly complicated voice chat system. The patent (spotted byWCCFTech) filed last month covers a system for implementing proximity chat in games. This feature lets nearby players in a game hear and speak to you through your headset. © Nintendo Youre out of luck if you want to talk with a buddy who is playing a different game. News from the future, delivered to your present....

French retailers are already promoting pre-configured desktop towers sporting a Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060. The French sellerEvoPCis selling the tower for 1,590 euros, or a little more than $1,737. The jury is still out on whether that config is worth it, even with 32 GB of RAM. © Kyle Barr / Gizmodo That may not mean much, considering the Nitro 50 and 60 configs have been around since 2022. The other element the listing potentially confirms is the 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM....

In a recent interview, Kennedy espoused the supposed benefits of supplements and steroids for measles patients. There comes off as no evidence that cod liver oil itself can be beneficial for measles. Doctors have occasionally used steroids for serious measles cases, including during a 2017 outbreak in Italy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking at a Trump campaign rally at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 1, 2024.© Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty...

And if youre not of a certain age, trust us, it was like that. PayPal monitors 24/7 looking out for fraud. PayPal also does not sell or share your full financial information. © PayPal We are a PayPal paid affiliate and may receive commission when you choose the affiliate links in this article. [CN3] 1PayPal Earnings-Q3, 2024, based on PayPal internal data. Active accounts are consumer and merchant accounts that have completed a transaction within the past 12 months....

Right now, were trying to figure out whether the base model Pixel 10 will have a zoom camera. OnLeaks shares CAD renders of the upcoming Pixel 10 lineup. So far, they all look exactly like thePixel 9 ProI carry now. Alleged renders say the next Pixels are going to look similar to the Pixels we have now.© Florence Ion / Gizmodo They allege the Pixel 10 will have athirdcamera like its Pro siblings....

Its 10pm, do you know where your children are? TikTok says that over time, itll add meditation exercises to the prompt. Now, will kids actually heed the warnings and wind down? And there is some evidence to suggest that mindfulness reminders are a net positive. So theres at least a little bit of evidence to back the general idea here. That seems less likely, but who knows? Maybe kids just need permission to stop scrolling....

Twenty-three employees will be affected by the cuts, according toSpacePolicyOnline.com. NASA isnt the only federal agency forced to reduce its workforce in light of Trumps recent orders. News from the future, delivered to your present. NASA is closing three offices as part of workforce reductions.NASA/Kim Shiflett Trump Plans Private Dinner for Largest Buyers of $TRUMP Crypto Trump’s corruption knows no bounds.

Firefly Aerospaceshareda brief, 30-second clip of Blue Ghost drilling onto the lunar surface earlier this week. Fireflys Blue Ghosttouched down on the lunar surfaceon Sunday, March 2 at 3:34 a.m. The lander touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site that was later filled with basaltic lava. Honeybee Robotics' Lunar PlanetVac instrument shown at the end of Blue Ghost’s surface access arm.Firefly Aerospace The spacecraftcaptured an awe-inspiring video of its descenttoward the heavily cratered lunar surface....

Dont get too comfortable with the look of your iPhone app screen with the latest iOS 18 update. Apple reportedly aims to rework how you use and navigate theiPhone,iPad, andMac. Apple could show off these new layouts at WWDC, which normally takes place in June. © Florence Ion / Gizmodo I hate to be that guy, but circular app icons sound like what Android has going on. Well have to wait and see whats truly different with Apples next big software release....

The Trump administration has given itself the moniker The Most Transparent Administration in History. So it seems like a transparent attempt at destroying evidence, which I guess counts for something. The shred and burn initiative may violate federal law. A protester outside of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters holds a sign with an anti-DOGE message© Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images USAID isnt alone in its apparent efforts to obfuscate access to documents....

A new study shows that whale pee plays a similar role, ferrying nutrients horizontally across oceans. Because of their size, whales are able to do things that no other animal does. Nutrients are coming in from outsideand not from a river, but by these migrating animals. Whales carry tons of nutrients in their pee thousands of miles across the oceans.© Martin van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 Its super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean....

The trade war between the United States and Canada is heating up. Now both sides appear to be backing down. After Trumps posts, Ford spoke with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick andagreed to rescindthe energy surcharge. High-voltage power lines cross the St. Clair River between Canada (background) and the United States on March 8, 2025 in East China Township, Michigan.© Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Canada is, in fact, allowed to do that....

The teams research analyzing the storms evolution waspublishedlast month in Environmental Research Letters. But the density gradient between surface fresh water and deeper salty water makes this difficult. Hurricane Idalia carved through Floridas Big Bend before charting a northeasterly course across the American Southeast. A map showing the salinity of the sea surface (the greener, the more saline) and the path of Hurricane Idalia, color-coded to show its category.Image: Lauren Dauphin, using sea surface salinity data courtesy of JPL and the SMAP Science Team and the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project...