Giant Toe-Biting Water Bugs Are on the Loose in Cyprus
Abandon all hope, ye who enter the waters off Cyprus. A team of researchers report that the giant water bug L. patruelis has arrived in the country, sparking concerns that…
Google DeepMind’s New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
Working with player-tracking data from 7,176 corners taken in the Premier League during 2020 and 2021, the researchers began by representing the arrangement of players as a graph, with the…
9 Best Electric Toothbrushes (2024): Cheap, Smart, Kids, and Alternatives
I hate brushing my teeth. I do it because I have to, but it’s a time-consuming, uncomfortable process—two minutes standing in front of the mirror can feel like an eternity.…
March Madness 2024: how to watch the 2024 NCAA First Four live stream
After a polarizing Selection Sunday, the field for the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship is set. Sixty-eight teams will compete for a chance to make the Final Four…
Get out the scrapers: Euclid space telescope is getting deiced
If you thought it was annoying to deice your car in the winter, then spare a thought for the engineers whose job it is to deice telescopes in space. The…
Hyper Light Breaker is a colorful mix between Risk of Rain and Dark Souls
Gearbox Publishing One thing I’ve always appreciated about gaming is the iterative nature of the industry. When one game cracks a good idea, it tends to trickle down to others…
I thought I’d hate this cheap Android phone. It proved me wrong
Andy Boxall / Digital Trends I like phones like the Nuu B30 Pro. Not because it’s a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra rival or that it does something spectacular we’ve never…
The Upcoming Total Solar Eclipse Is Totally Stressing Me Out
I’m suffering from an acute case of solar eclipse anxiety; maybe you can relate. The promise of this historic celestial spectacle, an event I’ve been looking forward to for years,…
Has the Next James Bond Been Found?
Benedict Wong teases his return to the MCU. Karen Gillain has hopes for the future of Jumanji. Get a look at the anime adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s Sand Land. Plus,…
Nuclear weapons in space are bad news for the entire planet
Last month, several news outlets reported that Russia could be planning to deploy a space-based nuclear weapon, alarming, well, pretty much everyone. US policy hawks, space environmentalists, and anyone with…