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IFis New Flagship Pocket Hi-Fi Is Here To Rescue Your Headphones

The iDSD GR 2 is the latest version of the iFi’s xDSD Gryphon. The iDSD GR 2 has been completely redesigned from the ground up with a new DAC architecture.

Lies And Scams Taint Watermark Removal Apps Now That Anthropic Started Watermarking Claude AI Outputs

Now that Anthropic started watermarking Claude AI output, this has spurred interest in watermark removal apps. Be very wary! An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Ancient Egypt Will Soon Host The Centurys Longest Total Solar Eclipse

Luxor will experience 6 minutes 19 seconds of totality during the Aug. 2, 2027 total solar eclipse — the longest visible from land between 1991 and 2114.

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are “taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse.”

Anthropic shares more details about how Claudes new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

Polaroids tiny instant camera is $72 and includes a free pack of film

Smartphone cameras are convenient, but they lack the charm of analog instant cameras. If you’re trying to relive the nostalgia of waiting for an instant photo to develop, Amazon is selling the second-generation Polaroid Go instant camera with a 16-photo film pack for $71.99 (usually $109.99). That’s the lowest price we’ve seen for the bundle, …

Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback

At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening replied, “I think the original game is coming back in some form,” before current showrunner Matt Selman added, “or not.” The tone in both of their voices and the body language suggests that …

Have a laugh at AIs expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there’s a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as …

Dogs assess more than a persons posture, voice, or facial expression when they meet them; researchers who study canine olfaction have found that dogs can detect the chemical signature of psychological…

Hugo worked it out before I did. My beagle is thirteen kilos of noise and bad decisions, and on a Tuesday afternoon he was doing what he always does at that hour, which is aggressively nothing. Then an email landed. I read two lines, felt my chest tighten, and kept reading without saying a word […] The post Dogs assess more than a person’s posture, voice, or facial expression when they meet them; researchers who study canine olfaction have found that dogs can detect the chemical signature of psychological stress in human breath and sweat, meaning they may know your body is under pressure befor…

The axolotl can regrow a lost leg, a piece of its heart, parts of its spinal cord, and even sections of its brain with no scarring, and yet in the wild it survives in a single network of canals on the…

The axolotl rebuilds limbs, heart tissue, spinal cord and parts of its brain without scarring — yet the wild population survives only in the canals of Xochimilco, where fewer than a thousand adults remain. The post The axolotl can regrow a lost leg, a piece of its heart, parts of its spinal cord, and even sections of its brain with no scarring, and yet in the wild it survives in a single network of canals on the outskirts of Mexico City, where fewer than 1,000 individuals are thought to remain appeared first on Space Daily .

The blue whales heart weighs about 400 pounds, beats as slowly as twice per minute when the animal is deep-diving, and pushes blood through an aorta about nine inches across, wide enough to fit a huma…

A blue whale’s heart weighs 400 pounds, slows to two beats a minute on deep dives, and pushes blood through an aorta the width of a dinner plate. The first specimen ever fully preserved rewrote nearly everything textbooks claimed about its size. The post The blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds, beats as slowly as twice per minute when the animal is deep-diving, and pushes blood through an aorta about nine inches across, wide enough to fit a human head but not the crawling child of the popular legend appeared first on Space Daily .

4 quick software tweaks to extend your phones battery life by 30 percent

Modern smartphones don’t run out of juice mid-afternoon because their batteries are defective. They run out because dozens of invisible background services are constantly running full-throttle in your pocket. Apps are pinging GPS satellites, pulling fresh data over weak cellular connections, and redrawing high-resolution screens 120 times per second. If your charger’s at home on the counter, alone and forgotten, you don’t need to put your phone in a drawer or live on Low Power Mode all day. Making a few surgical software adjustments can claw back about 30 percent of your battery life without t…

Why one of the most common brain disorders is also one of the most misunderstood

“It’s all in your head.” By the time many people with functional neurological disorder arrive in our clinic, they have heard these five words more times than they can count. They are told their brain scan was normal. Their electroencephalogram , a test that measures the brain’s electrical activity, is reassuring. “The good news is you don’t have epilepsy,” they’re told. No test can explain why they can’t walk without falling, why their leg won’t stop trembling, or why they experience seizures that leave them exhausted for hours, even days. Some begin to wonder if they really are imagining it. …

These practices improve your well-being and actually stick

Below, Matt Bloom shares five key insights from his new book, Lasting Wellbeing: Science-Based Practices for Tranquility, Authenticity, Meaning, and Joy . Matt is a social psychologist and emeritus professor of business at the University of Notre Dame where, for almost 30 years, he studied the well-being of people who work in the helping and healing professions. He is cofounder of Ritual, a mobile app that offers a living library of evidence-based well-being practices. What’s the Big Idea? Lasting well-being isn’t about finding the perfect advice or transforming your life overnight. It’s about…

3 Of The Best Pre-Built PCs That Are Cheaper Than Building One Yourself In 2026

With all the craze surrounding building your own PC, some pre-built PCs have actually become a value — and will save you assembly time in 2026.

What Really Happens To Your Car Loan After You Die?

Navigating finances after a loss is overwhelming. Discover the hidden clauses that determine exactly who is responsible for a leftover auto loan.

What Is The Minimum Voltage You Need In A Cordless Drill For Concrete?

Forcing the wrong drill into a concrete wall will quickly ruin its motor. Discover the exact battery power you actually need to tackle tough masonry.

Think Flock is bad? This new tech is coming to link license plates with your phone and it could be another death knell for privacy

New SignalTrace tech is designed to help in crime investigations, but there are questions about privacy.

Groundbreaking technology often enters the market at a premium before scaling: Touch-sensitive e-skin could soon be commonplace in robotics

Ultra-thin, highly sensitive electronic skin could plug this major robotics gap – edge processing could improve latency.

Why do so many AI chatbots call themselves Nova? I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more to name themselves

Users and alignment researchers have found that there’s a common name that most chatbots pick, guess which one went for it straight away?