When people hear the words desktop computer, many think of a massive behemoth. The visual gets a heaping helping of RGB when you throw the word gaming into the mix. But not all gaming desktops have to be massive. ©Photo: Charles Anthony Davis/DreamSmith LLC Its the perfect solution for those who want maximum gaming power but are short on space. At the time of this writing, its a 5% price increase....

Instead, Ive felt perfectly content doing it all on theOppo Find N5since it arrived a few weeks ago. The book-style foldable has an 8.12-inch inner screen and a 6.6-inch outer screen. Its a larger machine than theGalaxy Z Fold 6thats out now and evenGoogles Pixel 9 Pro Fold. A killer foldable you can’t buy in the United States.© Florence Ion / Gizmodo Its relative thinness compared to the rest of the foldable offerings makes it palatable despite the larger screen sizes....

After amonthslong hiatus, theOne Pieceanime will be returning inApril. Before that point, its English dub will make its own return and hit an impressive milestone. Wanted to share a few thoughts on my part of this enormous team effort. © Toei Animation Still, its a cause for celebration, and funny to see the show catch up to itself. Now if only it wasntPremium-exclusive… Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present....

In astudypublished Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers in Switzerland analyzed the pupils of sleeping participants. With further research, doctors might one day use pupil activity to diagnose conditions such as sleep disorders. These observations contradict the previous assumption that, essentially, the level of arousal during sleep is low. A study participant with the device used to record pupil movements during sleep.© Neural Control of Movement Lab / ETH Zurich...

15 million years before movies likeJawsandOpen Watergave swimmers the heebie-jeebies, a prehistoric shark species calledOtodus megalodonreached gargantuan sizes. Researchers have reassessed just how large the now-extinct beast would have beenand the results are fin-tastic. In total, this individual would have been a whopping 54 feet long (16.4 meters). An artistic rendering of an Otodus megalodon, not from the study addressed in this article. This interpretation makes megalodon look just like a great white shark, but new research suggests this was highly unlikely....

This story was originally published byProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Blockchain advocates argue that the technology is valuable on its own for such purposes. President Trump Speaks At The White House Digital Assets Summit alongside Crypto Czar David Sachs.© Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images But the primary use of blockchain, according to experts, is for crypto transactions. I dont see any way this will help anything. The blockchain idea is being pushed, a HUD official told colleagues, by Irving Dennis....

Anothershonen mangahas been deemed worthy to become ananimebut this ones different from the rest. The series stars Jiro Azuma, a teen ninja that can talk to animals. Sounds cool, right? © 100studio/Viz Media The interesting part is thatBlack Torchended back in 2018 with 19 chapters spread across five collected volumes. Its a curious shakeup to the adaptation formula, but not unwelcome. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present....

The efforts, it seems, were largely for naught. Facebook didcovertly launch social appsin China at one point, but its big hitters never made the leap. Meta, for its part, refutes the whistleblower report. Apps owned by Meta, including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, displayed on a phone screen© NurPhoto/Getty Images This is all pushed by an employee terminated eight years ago for poor performance. We do not operate our services in China today....

New research reveals theyre actually individuals within a giant seaweed cloneperhaps the largest clone known to science. A clone is a genetically identical copy of an organism, naturally resulting from asexual reproduction. Normally, female bladderwrack seaweed plants reproduce through sexual fertilization with male bladderwrack seaweed plants. Bladderwrack seaweed.© Kerstin Johannesson In fact, the bladderwrack clone might be the biggest known clone overall. However, clones do not contribute to the genetic diversity that typically strengthens species against threats to their populations....

Few things get the internet going like a movie that gets all the critical lashes. If you thought reactions toBorderlandslast year were bad, those forThe Electric Statemay set a new bar. Prior to that, it was10%, which wouldve made for their worst-reviewed film ever. © Netflix Weve posted some impressions below for you to laugh (or wince) at the spectacle of it all. Brown, Esposito & Tucci elevate cheesier elements with sincerity....

Among the scariest of these fears is that GLP-1 drugs may cause certain types of thyroid cancer. The first GLP-1 medication (for pop in 2 diabetes) hit the market 20 years ago, however. The following conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and grammar. An Ozempic injection pen.© Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Rozalina McCoy:So as these drugs were being developed, they were also being tested. This testing is done in animal models, typically rodents....

Plus, its made innumerable changes behind the scenes that have standardized and modernized government IT. Its kinda really good at what it does, which is make the government more efficient. Musk has, on multiple occasions,insistedthat Any given law will do the opposite of its name. Elon Musk standing in front of a crowd.© Kenny Holston/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images So it might be worth looking at his Department of Government Efficiency through that same lens....

Its noteworthy that GSAi was in development before Musk and company showed up. Those chatbots had not been deployed on account of being janky, per one employee. So, of course, DOGE just went ahead and rolled that thing out to people. Elon Musk wears a shirt that says “Tech Support” as he speaks during a cabinet meeting© JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Something tells me their skills are more useful than a chatbot that can draft an email....