You’ll often hear plastic pollution referred to as a problem. But the reality is that it’s multiple problems. Depending on the properties we need, we form plastics out of different polymers, each of which is held together by a distinct type of chemical bond. So the method we use to break down one type of polymer may be incompatible with the chemistry of another.

Galaxy S26 dummy models | Image Credit - Sonny Dickson The Galaxy S26 series could come with better specs than expected, according to Alchimist Leaks, an account with a decent but limited track record. Galaxy S26 family may flaunt better cameras Leaked Galaxy S26 Ultra render. | Image Credit - Ice Universe Alchimist Leaks claims that the Galaxy S26 Ultra will feature a 6.9-inch display with the M14 tech and an AI privacy screen.

Private Internet Access (PIA) comes with some of the best pricing of any VPN, and often doesn't feel like a budget service. I say "often" because, sadly, it does sometimes feel like you get what you pay for with PIA. While I'm working on seeing what settings iron out the kinks, the fact is that PIA doesn't always leave you with the internet speeds you need for everyday use.

The end of October is here, which means the spooky decorations are about to make way for snow, presents, and mistletoe. But before we say goodbye to the jack-o-lanterns and trick-or-treating, we can still pay tribute to the spookiest, the scariest, the ghouliest(?) of Pokémon: the ghost types. Over the years, ghost Pokémon have exploded in number, starting from just the Gastly line, which was their sole representative in the original games, to now dozens of critters haunting the Pokémon world.

Google released its first TV ad spot made entirely with generative artificial intelligence. The company says it has used its own Veo 3 and other AI tools to create the clip. Google’s “Planning a Quick Getaway?” ad was done entirely with AI A turkey named Tom is the main character of Google’s “Planning a Quick Getaway?” ad. The toylike plush animal uses AI Mode in Google Search to find a way to escape from his farm to a place where people don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.

Those users could become loyal to Microsoft, White said. And eventually, some users may even “get tired of bypassing the Microsoft account requirements, or Microsoft will add a new feature that they’ll happily get the account for, and they’ll relent and start using a Microsoft account,” White suggested in his video. “At least some people will, not me.” Microsoft declined Ars’ request to comment.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The lion is an undisputed contender for the planet’s most iconic predator, but a new study indicates there is an underdog contender coming for its top spot. Or, more accurately, an under-bat. According to researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, small flying mammals such as the fringe-lipped bat (

NVIDIA has teamed up with with South Korea's biggest companies and the country itself, as they build out their AI infrastructure. One of those companies is Samsung, which is building a new AI factory that will use 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell server GPUs and other NVIDIA technologies to make its own chips. This "AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing," as the companies call it, will help Samsung improve its processes, better predict maintenance needs and improve the efficiency of its autonomous operations.

A T-Mobile store in California. | Image Credit - Wave7 Research T-Mobile is moving ahead with its rumored plan to acquire new customers through the T-Life app, making store representatives wonder if their roles will soon be made redundant. A store employee claims that both new and existing customers will now be required to use T-Mobile's app. T-Mobile is going all in on T-Life…

A British trade union group is accusing Rockstar Games of union busting after it reportedly fired over 30 employees across offices in the UK and Canada. The Grand Theft Auto 6 maker denies the charges, however, claiming the people were terminated for “gross misconduct.” “Rockstar has just carried out one of the most blatant and ruthless acts of union busting in the history of the games industry,” Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) president Alex Marshall said in a statement, first reported by…

Michael Calore: Yeah. My favorite indiscreet product placement was in the show Entourage from HBO. It was on TV, I don't know, 15 years ago. Lauren Goode: Oh, I remember it. Michael Calore: And the characters used to say to each other, "I'll BBM it to you." Lauren Goode: No. Time capsule. Michael Calore: Yeah. Which is like, even if you had a Blackberry—

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Just in time for Halloween, researchers have identified a new species of trapdoor spider. The newly discovered Aptostichus ramirezae is about the size of a quarter, brown, and pretty chunky. It’s the fourth known species of trapdoor spiders in California whose habitat is limited to sandy coastal dunes.

Google Photos is rolling out new video editing templates to help you quickly create "trendy," polished videos. The feature, an extension of Highlight videos, uses pre-packaged music, text, and beat-matched cuts. Google Photos is adding 'trendy' new video templates Google is looking to make video creation in the Photos app a bit more automated and, well, "trendy." The app is getting new video editing templates designed to simplify the process of making shareable clips.This new feature is an expansion of the "Highlight video" tool that first appeared in 2023.

One of our favorite power banks is on sale for one of the best prices we've seen, period. The Anker MagGo Power Bank 10K has dropped to only $57, which is 37 percent off its usual price. To put it into perspective, the lowest we've tracked it is $54, and that only happened briefly at the end of 2024. Today's sale applies to multiple colorways.

I am still but a tourist enjoying the horny fruits of the Love and Deepspace community’s labor, so I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that there are months-long controversies and discourse within the gacha game I had never heard of. However, when I saw IGN reporting on dark-skinned custom characters being essentially “invisible” in some of its cutscenes, I was flabbergasted at how true it was, and that it’s apparently been an issue since the game launched last year. 

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings novels—and the associated “legendarium” of characters, histories, myths, maps, and constructed languages—have served as a bedrock of so-called “nerd culture” since their publication in the mid-1950s. With its clear-cut characterizations, and (more-or-less) cleanly delineated lines between Good and Evil, Tolkien’s imagined Middle-earth—a vast and geographically variegated realm teeming with elves, dwarves, wizards, dragons, orcs, and halflings—can be fairly called archetypal.

While everyone’s fixated on the Galaxy S26 series, Samsung may have started working on what could turn into one of its best-selling smartphones of 2026. A new leak suggests that the Galaxy A57 is already in development without revealing much about it. Samsung is working on the Galaxy A57 A firmware for what’s likely to be the Galaxy A57 has been spotted on Samsung’s test servers.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Never underestimate the power of fungi. It can turn ants into “zombies,” help fictional plumbers grow, and even look like creepy fingers. One newly engineered strain of fungus uses the power of smell to kill Earth’s deadliest animal—mosquitoes. Mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria and dengue, kill thousands of people per year.

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pages dedicated to memes, animal videos and yes, AI-generated photos and videos. The people behind these pages are experts at creating content that can catch Facebook's algorithm and go viral. Successful pages can generate tens of thousands of dollars a month from performance bonuses, revenue-sharing and other monetization programs that pay Facebook creators for popular content.

Google, what I have ever done to you? For the second consecutive time this month, Google has released an update for its Pixel handsets that are not being made available to the Pixel 6 series. That means that once again, my Pixel 6 Pro is not benefiting from the performance and other improvements being offered to Pixel 7 and later models.

And just like that, it’s already time to start shopping around for the holiday season. Finding the right gifts for all your friends, family, and loved ones can be quite stress inducing. Sure, we like to get unique gifts catered to the recipient, but also a good gift that works across the board for everyone can be equally appreciated and save you a lot of time and effort.

Guillermo del Toro loves a challenge. Nothing the 61-year-old director does could be termed “half-assed,” and each of his movies is planned, scripted, and storyboarded with immense attention to detail. Such discipline is evident in Frankenstein, his adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. It’s a movie del Toro has been trying to make for years, and it shows. The elaborate sets and costumes—as well as some embellishing of Shelley’s story—could only be the work of someone as connected as he is with his source material.

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Thinking about computer security isn’t fun. You spend time and money on software just to keep your computer running as it was meant to in the first place. This inconvenient fact makes app design a crucial consideration: you want something easy enough to use that it doesn’t feel like a chore, but comprehensive and serious enough to instill the confidence and sense of safety you were seeking in the first place.

The Republican-led FCC has voted on and approved a proposal that would make it harder for consumers to receive itemized bills with accurate information from their ISPs, . This proposal revises previous "unnecessary" requirements on the grounds "may confuse customers." These changes would minimize the benefit of the so-called "nutrition labels" which are otherwise known as Broadband Facts labels. You've likely run into these simple itemized labels when shopping for a broadband plan.

Nova Launcher just pushed a surprise beta update, but don't get too excited. With the original development team gone, this is likely old code and could signal the end of an era for the legendary app. Why is this update a surprise? Nova Launcher, long the king of Android customization, just dropped a new beta update, but it’s not the comeback story fans were hoping for.