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Netflix is increasing its investment in video podcasts, with its latest projects featuring famous comedian Pete Davidson and Cowboys Hall-of-Famer Michael Irvin. The streaming giant announced on Wednesday two original video podcasts coming to the platform: Irvin’s “The White House,” streaming on January 19, and “The Pete Davidson Show,” debuting on January 30. Both series, available only to Netflix subscribers, are designed to leverage the star power of their hosts. Davidson already has two comedy specials on the service that have performed well for the streamer. Meanwhile, Irvin stands out as a prominent figure in the sports world and was…
How does procrastination arise? The reason you decide to postpone household chores and spend your time browsing social media could be explained by the workings of a brain circuit. Recent research has identified a neural connection responsible for delaying the start of activities associated with unpleasant experiences, even when these activities offer a clear reward.The study, led by Ken-ichi Amemori, a neuroscientist at Kyoto University, aimed to analyze the brain mechanisms that reduce motivation to act when a task involves stress, punishment, or discomfort. To do this, the researchers designed an experiment with monkeys, a widely used model for understanding…
The subscription economy helped boost mobile app revenues in 2025, even as app downloads declined for the fifth consecutive year, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures‘ annual report. In 2025, global downloads of all mobile apps and mobile games via the App Store and Google Play reached an estimated 106.9 billion, 2.7% lower than the year prior. Consumer spending, meanwhile, climbed 21.6% to reach an estimated $155.8 billion during the same period. The data indicates that app developers, marketers, and publishers have been successful in getting their users to make in-app purchases or activate subscriptions, even as the number of…
A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but not in the fundamental shape of their response to heat. Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have identified what they describe as a “universal thermal performance curve” (UTPC) that appears to govern how all species respond to changes […]Biology,Climate Change,Ecology,Evolution,Physiology,Trinity College Dublin#Scientists #Discovered #Universal #Rule #Shackles #Evolution1768421986
Tired of sitting in a dark office while you work from home? You could save over $40 on one of our favorite LED desk lamps, the Lume Cube Edge Light 2.0. This upgraded LED light can do duty as both a work light for a study, or as a main light for improving your webcam quality on work calls. It could even be part of a lighting suite for a proper streaming setup.Lume Cube LED Edge Desk Light 2.0The Edge Light doesn’t just sit there and shine; it has touch controls that let you easily adjust the brightness or color…
Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After pasting the problem into ChatGPT and letting it think for 15 minutes, he came back to a full solution. He evaluated the proof and formalized it with a tool called Harmonic — but it all checked out. “I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they struggle,” Somani said. The surprise was that, using…
The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind for life. Adolescence is a major turning point not only for social and physical development, but also for how the brain works. During these years, mental abilities such as planning ahead, solving problems, and making complex decisions […]Biology,Brain,Cell Biology,Dendritic Cell,Developmental Biology,Kyushu University,Neuroscience#Teen #Brain #Builds #Synapse #Hotspots #Scientists1768418323
At the start of 2024, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI were united against military use of their AI tools. But over the next 12 months, something changed.In January, OpenAI quietly rescinded its ban on using AI for “military and warfare” purposes, and soon after it was reported to be working on “a number of projects” with the Pentagon. In November, in the same week that Donald Trump was reelected US president, Meta announced that the United States and select allies would be able to employ Llama for defense uses. A few days later, Anthropic announced that it too would allow…
Google announced Wednesday the launch of a revamped Trends Explore page, now featuring Gemini-powered capabilities that automatically identify and compare trends related to your searches. The update is rolling out on desktop starting today. The Trends Explore page has long served as a valuable tool for content creators, journalists, and researchers, making it easy to analyze search interest for any topic over time, across regions, and by category. The new Gemini experience streamlines much of the manual work involved in exploring trending topics, reducing research time, and surfacing connections that users might otherwise overlook. The redesigned Explore page now features…
Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social bonds. A new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid suggests that chimpanzees and bonobos organize their social lives in ways that closely resemble human relationship patterns. By examining social […]Biology,Animal Behavior,Chimpanzee,Evolution,Primatology,Utrecht University#Research #Reveals #Chimpanzees #Bonobos #Friend #Groups #Humans1768414692
As the Trump administration publicly cast Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua (TdA) as a unified terrorist force tied to President Nicolás Maduro and operating inside the United States, hundreds of internal US government records obtained by WIRED tell a far less certain story. Intelligence taskings, law-enforcement bulletins, and drug-task-force assessments show that agencies spent much of 2025 struggling to determine whether TdA even functioned as an organized entity in the US at all—let alone as a coordinated national security threat.While senior administration officials portrayed TdA as a centrally directed terrorist network active across American cities, internal tasking directives and threat assessments…
The music distribution platform Bandcamp announced in a Reddit post on Tuesday that it’s banning AI-generated music and audio. “We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans,” the company said. Bandcamp’s new guidelines state that music and audio generated “wholly or in substantial part by AI” is not permitted, and that it will not allow the use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles. So, if Drake had released “Taylor Made Freestyle” on Bandcamp, he would’ve had a problem (and maybe it…
Whether it was protesting Covid lockdowns, attending school board meetings, or facing off against Black Lives Matter protesters, the far-right Proud Boys were always on hand to support Donald Trump’s first term in office.When Trump left office in 2021, the group’s leaders languished in jail for their role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. With reported infighting destabilizing the movement, it looked like the group’s glory days were behind it.But Trump’s return a year ago, and his release of all January 6 prisoners, signaled that a Proud Boy comeback could be in the cards. And while there have…
Fusion power startup Type One Energy recently raised $87 million, TechCrunch has learned from sources familiar with the deal. The new funding is a convertible note that brings the total venture investment in the startup to more than $160 million. Type One is also in the midst of raising a $250 million Series B at a $900 million pre-money valuation, according to sources and later confirmed by the company. Like other energy startups, Type One has benefitted from a surge in demand from data centers and the broader electrification of the economy. Data centers are expected to use nearly three…
A new ultra-stretchy OLED brings glowing, wearable displays and real-time health sensors one step closer to reality. The same organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology used in flexible smartphones, curved computer monitors, and modern televisions may soon find a new role as wearable, skin-mounted sensors. These future devices could display real-time changes in body temperature, blood […]Technology,Drexel University,LEDs,Materials Science,OLED#Flexible #OLED #Screen #Stays #Bright #Stretched1768407246
It’s been one week since a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since then, the city has been in tumult.Thousands of protestors—from young students to elderly residents—have taken to the streets, setting up memorials for Good and facing off with ICE agents. Dozens have been arrested.More than 2,000 ICE agents have been deployed to Minneapolis, with another 1,000 on the way. Local leaders have decried ICE’s continued, aggressive tactics. “It feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government,” Minnesota state representative Michael Howard told…