One more thing A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they talk shop. The photos…
TikTok now blocks search results for #SkinnyTok
TikTok no longer shows search results for the hashtag #SkinnyTok. Critics who supported this block said some videos with that label were promoting disordered eating and other unhealthy or risky diet behaviors. We’ve reached out to TikTok for comment on this…
Fred Espenak, astronomy’s ‘Mr. Eclipse’, dies at 71
Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak. On April 15, 2025, Espenak announced on his Facebook page that he had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, his health was declining rapidly, and that…
iPhone 17 rumor: no ProMotion display
Render of a possible iPhone 17 design A new report from a leaker with a mixed track record says that the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air may get a high-refresh rate display, but it won’t be ProMotion. ProMotion is the…
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s 60fps upgrade on Nintendo Switch 2 genuinely makes it look a hundred times better
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet had new footage revealed in the Nintendo Today app The new footage showcases the game running at 60fps on Nintendo Switch 2 The image quality is also noticeably much cleaner Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is set to…
The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava
One more thing Adventures in the genetic time machine An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the past. The technology is being used to create genetic maps of…
People Can Fly cancels two games and lays off developers
People Can Fly, the developer of Outriders and Gears of War: Judgement, announced Monday that its ending development on two of its upcoming games due to issues with its publisher and an inability to secure funding to continue development. As part of this…
Two space vets added to Astronaut Hall of Fame as one awaits launch
The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame held its annual induction ceremony on Saturday (May 31), but one of this year’s two honorees could not attend for a reason unique to all past enshrinements. Bernard Harris, the first Black astronaut to perform…
WWDC 2025 ‘Sleek peek’ teases unified OS redesign
WWDC 2025 ‘Sleek peek’ teases unified OS redesign | Image credit: Apple Apple appears to be preparing a unified design update across its platforms, with hints pointing to a visionOS-inspired redesign at WWDC 2025. In early March, it was first rumored…
I asked ChatGPT to draw a bird a year ago, then did the same thing today. You won’t believe the difference!
If you ever needed a visual representation of how far ChatGPT’s AI image generation has come in just a year, then I don’t think there’s a clearer example than the two images I’ve generated and shown here, both from the same…