/ A new feature called Quick View allows searchers to read a recipe without leaving Google. By Mia Sato, platforms and communities reporter with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. Share this story Illustration: The Verge Google is testing yet another feature aimed at… Continue reading Google tests showing full recipes right in search results
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Acting Very Strangely, Puzzling Scientists
“That was very unexpected.” Great Ball of Fire Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot (GRS) is large enough to swallow the entire Earth — and as new imagery from Hubble suggests, it’s a lot weirder than previously thought. Between December 2023 and March 2024, the Hubble Space Telescope took a closer look at the massive and mysterious… Continue reading Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Acting Very Strangely, Puzzling Scientists
Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop
The editors are fighting back. It’s On AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of Wikipedia — and its editors are fighting back. As 404 Media reports, a team of Wikipedia editors has assembled to create “WikiProject AI Cleanup,” which describes itself as “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.”… Continue reading Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop
Our Climate Is So Screwed Up, It Rained in the Sahara Desert
“It’s been 30 to 50 years since we’ve had this much rain in such a short space of time.” Darude Rainstorm How messed up is planet Earth’s climate? It’s rain-in-the-Sahara-level messed up, apparently. As The Associated Press reports, a region of the Sahara Desert in southeastern Morocco last month experienced a surprise deluge of rainstorms,… Continue reading Our Climate Is So Screwed Up, It Rained in the Sahara Desert
Mysterious “Fifth Force” of Physics Could Be Influencing Asteroids Near Earth
Were we wrong about the standard model of physics? Rocky Foundations There may be a fifth fundamental force of the universe that we haven’t documented yet — and, according to new research, our best bet of uncovering it may not lie in deep space, but in objects relatively close to home. As detailed in a… Continue reading Mysterious “Fifth Force” of Physics Could Be Influencing Asteroids Near Earth
Amazon’s Rufus AI Shopping Assistant Now Lets Some Shoppers Check Price History
If Amazon’s test of sharing price history through Rufus expands and survives, it could be a significant reason for users to give the chatbot a try. Trishul Chilimbi, an Amazon vice president overseeing research, wrote last week that his teams trained Rufus on all the products, reviews, and Q&A submissions on the company’s website as… Continue reading Amazon’s Rufus AI Shopping Assistant Now Lets Some Shoppers Check Price History
The World’s First Commercial Space Station Looks Like a Luxury Hotel Inside
Aluminum for spacecraft interiors is passé; what space-farers apparently want is wood. That’s the bet from Vast, the makers of Haven-1, the world’s first commercial space station set to be placed in low-Earth orbit by the SpaceX Falcon rocket next year. First paying customers will be getting on board in 2026, and judging by the… Continue reading The World’s First Commercial Space Station Looks Like a Luxury Hotel Inside
Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime is making a tabletop RPG party game
Blizzard co-founder and ex-CEO Mike Morhaime’s publishing company Dreamhaven just announced a new game that mixes elements of tabletop RPGs with party games like Jackbox. Sunderfolk looks to be a more casual pick-up-and-play take on something like Gloomhaven. The title has been “designed for players who love tabletop, board and video games.” It’s a two-screen… Continue reading Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime is making a tabletop RPG party game
Amazon Prime ‘free’ games for October include BioShock Remastered, Doom Eternal and A Plague Tale: Innocence
Amazon has revealed the extensive list of PC games that Prime members can snap up at no extra cost in October. It’s a very solid line up with a little something for everyone, including big hitters, killer indies and, since it’s spooky season, a cauldron full of horror games. BioShock Remastered, Doom Eternal (one of… Continue reading Amazon Prime ‘free’ games for October include BioShock Remastered, Doom Eternal and A Plague Tale: Innocence
Dead Island 2 and Gris join the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October
October’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup is certainly stuffed to the gills. There’s something for everyone, from zombie classics to narrative adventures and beyond. Let’s take a look. The biggest draw here is likely Dead Island 2. For a while, we weren’t sure if this game would ever come out, but it did and it’s… Continue reading Dead Island 2 and Gris join the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October