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This led a Mexican-European research collaboration to get interested in finding DNA from elsewhere in the Columbian mammoth’s range, which extended down into Central America. The researchers focused on the Basin of Mexico, which is well south of where any woolly mammoths were likely to be found. While the warmer terrain generally tends to degrade DNA more quickly, the team …

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has been secretly upscaling Shorts by certain creators without their consent. Creators have not been offered any notification or given any option to disable upscaling. The team has clarified that it is using “traditional machine learning” to denoise and unblur videos. YouTube was founded 20 years ago and has gone through significant changes …

Earlier this month, Xbox sent me a code for Gears of War: Reloaded on the PlayStation 5. That’s a weird sentence to write. But it’s true. And despite knowing this port was coming and previously writing about it as well as the end of the console wars on Kotaku, I still have to admit:  It was really bizarre to nail …

Image by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty / Futurism Over the past few months, a small media circus has ignited after the White House announced that 79-year-old president Donald Trump, who had been photographed with swollen ankles, had been diagnosed with a disorder called chronic venous insufficiency that causes blood to pool in the extremities. Now, amid the increasing scrutiny …

Samsung is showing off its 3D monitor at Gamescom using the one game I’d feel weird playing in a room full of people  GamesRadar+ Samsung Electronics Debuts Odyssey G7 Monitors, Showcasing Top Games on Its Displays at Gamescom 2025  Samsung Global Newsroom Samsung expands Odyssey G7 series with 37 and 40-inch gaming monitors — VA panels offer up to 5120 x 2160 …

If you’ve been online at all over the past couple of years, you’ve likely scrolled by TikTok videos from Lucky Blue Smith and Nara Smith. Who knows, maybe you’ve even watched one or two of them. No judgment here! Tommaso Boddi / Getty Images for Clarins The last time we talked about Nara — who is regularly associated with “tradwife” …

‘Honey Don’t!’ Review: Wry, Weird and Sometimes Cruel  The New York Times ‘Honey Don’t!’ wastes Margaret Qualley and her eye-catching attire  The Boston Globe Unloved Calif. city shines in new Hollywood film — despite being filmed states away  SFGATE Review | What’s the sound of one Coen directing? ‘Honey Don’t!’  The Washington Post Margaret Qualley shines in ‘Honey Don’t!’ as Philip Marlowe in red …

View larger. | Corals on Mars? NASA’s Curiosity rover used its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to photograph this small rock nicknamed Paposo on July 24, 2025 (Martian sol 4609). This is 1 of 2 rocks Curiosity saw in this area that resembles fossilized coral, but it was probably just shaped by the thin Martian winds. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ …

“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her …

“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her …