OnePlus Is Ditching Its Beloved Alert Slider for an iPhone-like Action Button, and Fans Aren’t Happy

Apple isnt the only one eliminating the physical mute switch, as it did on theiPhone 15 Pro. However, the post doesnt reveal what the button is like or what it will do beyond being programmable. But OnePlus promises, This button is future-ready and incredibly intuitive. The OnePlus 10T was the last time the brand made the decision to do away with the Alert Slider and people were not happy about it....

March 10, 2025 · 1 min · 134 words · Amanda Garcia

Scientists Highlight Surprising New Threat to Satellites: Climate Change

The thermosphere plays a crucial role in creating drag on orbital debris, gradually removing it from space. The thermosphere is where the International Space Station and most other satellites orbit Earth. More than 10,000 satellites are currently drifting through low Earth orbit. An illustration of space debris in Earth orbit.Image: ESA The retention of heat in the troposphere means less heat makes its way into the upper atmosphere. These two contributions lead to long-term cooling in the stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere....

March 10, 2025 · 1 min · 196 words · Walter Vasquez

Scientists Just 3D-Printed a Prosthetic Penis—and It Actually Works

The future of medicine just might include prosthetic penises that can be printed on demand. Researchers from the U.S., Japan, and China conducted the study,publishedlast week in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The teams model even mimicked the urethral structures found in a typical penis. Two European rabbits mating in the summer.© Ger Bosma Photos via Shutterstock These implants were then transplanted into rabbits and pigs that had a partly damaged corpus spongiosum....

March 10, 2025 · 1 min · 161 words · James Miles

Someone Give Us $17 Million So We Can Buy This Original Anime Art

One of themany wonderful thingsabout animation is you might literally own the movie you love. Owning a screen-usedmovie prop or costumeis one thing. Owning the entire screen is something else entirely. We need all this original anime art, now up for auction.Image: Heritage Auctions you’re free to see, and bid on,everything in the auction at this link. Below, weve picked out just a few of our favorites. So we figure that should cover all these and then some....

March 10, 2025 · 1 min · 190 words · Paul Grant

Sony Says It Has Already Taken Down More Than 75,000 AI Deepfake Songs

The company says the number is likely just a fraction of the AI deepfakes online. Generative AI, namely chatbots like ChatGPT, still produce a lot of errors and wholly made-up information. Image and audio generation models generally require less precision than producing text. Sony has taken down more than 75,000 AI deepfake songs that mimic artists in its catalog.Kevin Winter/TAS Rights Management/Getty It has become amajor problem in high schoolsacross the U....

March 10, 2025 · 1 min · 101 words · Julie Mullins

This $35,000 Computer Is Powered by Trapped Human Brain Cells

Cortical Labs would like to sell you a brain in a box. Itll cost about $35,000, and you could teach it to do all kinds of nifty things. Cortical Labs has been working on this computer for six years and detailed many of its featuresin New Atlas. The CL1, a commercial wetware brain in a box.© Cortical Labs photo. The New Atlas article is built around a long interview with Cortical Labss Chief Scientific Officer, Brett Kagan....

March 10, 2025 · 2 min · 282 words · Victoria Long

This Is the Year Apple and Samsung Will Compete for the Title of Thinnest Smartphone

Another day, another iPhone leak, part of which we covered already last week. This year, thin is in. I dont like it. Apple and Samsung will be competing for the ultra thinnest smartphones this year.© Florence Ion / Gizmodo Ultimately, these manufacturers want the marketing credit to say their devices are the thinnest. No one expected it to become the battle of svelte between the worlds two biggest phone manufacturers....

March 10, 2025 · 2 min · 314 words · Joshua Baird

ThunderboltsTeases a Grim New Era for Avengers Tower

Zach CreggersResident Evilreboot now has a release date.Star Trek: Strange New Worldsbegins teasing season 3 with new posters. Plus, whats coming onGhostsandYellowjackets. Can you use that as a symbol of things taking a darker turn? © Marvel Studios The outlet speculates she potentially could be be up for the role of Jadis, The White Witch. Screamboat Steamboat Willie commandeers a ferry on a new poster forScreamboat. Ghosts Spoiler TVhas a synopsis for St....

March 10, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Lisa Francis

Tony Gilroy Has the Perfect Reason HisAndorScripts Weren’t Released

One of the biggest reasonsAndoris so goodis one you probably dont even think about. Unfortunately, that never happenedand in a new interview, he had the perfect reason why. I wanted to do it, Gilroytold Collider. This lot was really excited for those Andor scripts to drop.Image: Lucasfilm We put it together. Ive seen it, I loved it. AI is the reason were not. Everyones favorite thing: AI. So the fact his scripts would be eaten up and spit out by the machine wasnt a consideration....

March 10, 2025 · 1 min · 189 words · Daniel Garcia

Tony Gilroy Looks Back on Taking Shit Seriously inAndor

Tony Gilroy is a man with a vision. So that became a very rapid explorationyou have basically a year to work on the show. What hasnt reversed in that time wasAndors favor. © Lucasfilm Upon release, audiences and critics picked up on whatAndorwas doing, leading to rave reviews. Which we were just about to start shooting, because the alternative was to just not do it. But its also arriving in a form that Gilroy initially scrambled to adapt to....

March 10, 2025 · 4 min · 666 words · Kenneth Young

Webb Telescope Spots Two Protostars Locked in a Violent, Million-Year Battle

The universe can be a beautiful but violent place. L483 is located 650 light-years away in the constellation Serpens. For now, the two stars are exchanging fast, tight jets of material. Protostar Lynds 483 as captured by the Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Theres a lot going on in the image, creating a beautiful medley of colors and light. If you were viewing this from space, however, it wouldnt exactly look like that....

March 10, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Derek Lucero

What Does ThisMandalorian and GroguDisney Concept Art Tell Us About the Movie?

This weekend,Star Warsfans got a new glimpse of a galaxy far, far away. They appear to show theFalconflying on Bespin, through Death Star wreckage presumably around Endor, and on Tatooine. Who wouldnt want to fly theMillennium Falconthrough Bespin, Tatooine, or in the space around Endor? You’ll fly the Millennium Falcon besides a Razor Crest at Disney parks.Image: Disney Parks However, we also know these images have a link to the film itself....

March 10, 2025 · 2 min · 221 words · David Hill

DOGE Threat: How Government Data Would Give an AI Company Extraordinary Power

This access has sparked fears aboutcybersecurity vulnerabilitiesandprivacy violations. However, evidence has emerged that DOGE personnelsimultaneously hold positionswith at least one of Musks companies. At the Federal Aviation Administration, SpaceX employeeshave government email addresses. New Yorkers Hold Tesla Protest Against President Trump And Elon Musk© Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) This dual employment creates a conduit for federal data to potentially be siphoned to Musk-owned enterprises, including xAI. The companys latest Grok AI chatbot modelconspicuously refuses to give a clear denialabout using such data....

March 9, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Cynthia Mosley