Shimano has launched new high-end gravel race shoes today and claims that, for the first time in thirty years, some changes have been made to its much-loved SPD clipless pedal cleats. Shimano MTB and gravel categories have seen some updates and new releases this year. Specifically, a new GRX wireless Di2 gravel groupset and the MTB range-topping XTR wireless groupset. …
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The Pixel 10’s AI-only RAM exclusion takes a big bite out of real system memory
The Pixel 10 ships with 12GB of RAM, but you’ll only ever have about 8GB available for your apps and games. That’s because, as Android Authority discovered, Google is carving out roughly 3.5GB exclusively for its Gemini-powered AI framework. It’s a permanent, AI-only memory partition (in technical terms, “unevictable”), and it keeps the Nano model and AICore service resident in …
Read More »Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Stardust Older Than Our Solar System : ScienceAlert
The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days in our Solar System. More than just a simple space rock, Bennu contains not only material from the Solar System, but material from beyond our system. Bennu follows an …
Read More »Why are our solar system planets tilted: These warped exoplanet-forming disks may offer clues
The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the discovery of subtle warps spotted in many planet-forming disks around young stars. A major observing program with ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), called exoALMA, has surveyed 15 planet-forming, or protoplanetary, disks in detail. In particular, astronomers led by …
Read More »Elon Musk’s DOGE copied entire Social Security database to an insecure cloud system, whistleblower says
The Social Security Administration’s Chief Data Officer is blowing the whistle on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE. According to the Government Accountability Project, which is representing whistleblower Charles Borges, DOGE officials have risked the security of more than 300 million Americans by creating a “live copy of the country’s Social Security …
Read More »Ken Levine’s Judas Reemerges With Dev Log Highlighting New System That Lets Your Choices Decide the Story’s Villain
Ghost Story Games must have sensed that we were becoming antsy about Judas, the upcoming game from BioShock creator Ken Levine that’s touted an impressive-sounding “narrative LEGOs” approach. The studio has dropped the first of seemingly multiple Dev Logs today, with this one talking about the game’s complex, Shadow of Mordor-like “Villainy” system. Levine has been alluding to the game’s …
Read More »Rising Launch Dev Update Reveals New Details About Seasonal Updates, Free Draws, and System Changes
NetEase Games has shared a pre-launch developer update for Destiny: Rising, confirming 200+ free draws, endgame plans, and monthly content drops. Destiny: Rising is almost here. And yes, it’s a free-to-play mobile shooter with gacha pulls at its core. The global release for the game hits on August 28, with pre-download on August 27 at 6 AM PT, and launch …
Read More »Endeavor System, Black Blood, Beledar, and uniting the scattered tribes – Destructoid
WoW‘s next expansion, Midnight, is still a ways away, but thanks to the team over at Blizzard, we had a chance to dive deep into the Housing update and find out about all sorts of other interesting aspects of the game. At Gamescom, we got a chance to sit down and talk to two faces working on WoW‘s next significant …
Read More »Scientists Unveil New Weapon That Kills Cancer Without the Immune System
Scientists in Japan have unveiled a revolutionary bacteria-based therapy that eradicates tumors without relying on the immune system, offering fresh hope for patients where standard treatments fail. Credit: Stock Two bacteria working in harmony show powerful antitumor effects. The approach could transform treatment for immunocompromised patients. A research team led by Professor Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of …
Read More »‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space
The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than our solar system, as well as organic materials and ices from interstellar space, three fresh studies of the asteroid’s sample materials show. Scientists all over the world have been poring over samples of Bennu ever since material from the asteroid was brought to Earth in 2023, courtesy of NASA‘s OSIRIS-REx …
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