The remote tracker industry is filled with options that cater to a couple of known networks, but not many offer compatibility with both Android and Apple’s finder networks. The Chipolo POP is a new tacker that works on the Apple Find My network and Android’s Find My Device network, and it comes in a variety of non-boring colors.
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What a difference a week makes. This past weekend, Formula 1 went back to Bahrain, the site of this year's preseason test, for round four of the 2025 season. Last week's race in Japan sent many to sleep, but that was definitely not the case on Sunday. The overtaking was frenetic, the sparks didn't set anything on fire, and the title fight just got that little bit more complicated. It was a heck of a race.
Before the racing got underway, the sport got some clarity on future powertrain rules. An ambitious new ruleset goes into effect next year, with an all-new small-capacity turbocharged V6 engine working together with an electric motor that powers the rear wheels. Just under half the total power comes from the hybrid system, much more than the two hybrid systems on current F1 cars, and developing them is no easy task. Nor is it cheap.
F1 is also moving to supposedly carbon-neutral synthetic fuels next year, and that has prompted some to wonder—increasingly loudly—if instead of the expensive hybrids lasting for four years, maybe they could be replaced with a cheaper non-hybrid engine instead, like a naturally aspirated V10.
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Nvidia is betting big on American soil. The chipmaker said Monday it plans to invest up to $500 billion in building AI infrastructure across the U.S. over the next four years, working closely with longtime partners like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing […]
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We’ve seen iPhone 17 Pro Max dummy units, and we’ve gawked at iPhone 17 Pro Max cases. Yet when you put the two together, you get a real sense of the shape of things to come.
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Due to the fluctuating tariff situation, a lot of people are seriously mulling over tech purchases they might otherwise be content to put off for a while. And it makes sense. While I don’t endorse panic buying, your reasons for buying now are more justified because prices may increase. In light of that instability, it’s refreshing to find discounts, such as this small but welcome $30 price drop on the Meta Quest 3S. It’s $269.99 at Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart, and still comes with Batman: Arkham Shadow, plus a three-month trial of Quest Plus. That’s Meta’s Game Pass-like subscription that lets you play over 25 games, with new games added to the catalog every month (normally $7.99 per month).
The Quest 3S is Meta’s latest standalone virtual reality headset. While newer than the Quest 3, it’s more of a half-step successor to the popular Quest 2. Its speed matches that of the Quest 3, but the lenses, field of view and per-eye screen resolution are the same as on the Quest 2. It’s a strange batch of upgrades, but it works — especially at this price. Read our review.
With the Quest 3S, you can play all of the most demanding titles on the platform. And, if you have a gaming PC, you can wirelessly link up your headset via Meta’s AirLink app, or the official Steam Link app, to play your PC-based virtual reality titles, such as Half-Life: Alyx.
Joel is a troubled guy. Throughout the first Last of Us game (and subsequent TV adaptation on HBO, where heâs played by Pedro Pascal), he sees and does a lot of things heâd rather forget. He certainly doesnât seem to want to talk about them much. Which is why itâs nice to see that, in the showâs second season, heâs finally seeing a therapist named Gail.
Unlike most of the showâs cast, Gail (played by Catherine OâHara) isnât based on a character from the games but instead is a new creation specifically for the HBO series. And although she makes her debut in season 2, co-creator Craig Mazin says that introducing a therapist was actually something he wanted to do early on.
âIn a world where everyone has been traumatized ⦠therapy would probably be usefulâ
âWe have opportunities to do things only we can do that the game canât,â he tells The Verge. âI donât think the game couldâve supported a very long cutscene between a therapist and Joel. But it was something that we had talked about all the way back in season 1, because it seemed to us that in a world where everyone has been traumatized, and you have to barter some skill as part of the new econ …
The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition to good strategy and the timely appearance of key allies like the French, Continental soldiers relied on several key technological innovations in weaponry. But just how accurate is an 18th-century musket when it comes to hitting a target? Did the rifle really determine the outcome of the war? And just how much damage did cannon inflict? A team of military weapons experts and re-enactors set about testing some of those questions in a new NOVA documentary, Revolutionary War Weapons.
The documentary examines the firing range and accuracy of Brown Bess muskets and long rifles used by both the British and the Continental Army during the Battles of Lexington and Concord; the effectiveness of Native American tomahawks for close combat (no, they were usually not thrown as depicted in so many popular films, but there are modern throwing competitions today); and the effectiveness of cannons against the gabions and other defenses employed to protect the British fortress during the pivotal Siege of Yorktown. There is even a fascinating segment on the first military submarine, dubbed "the Turtle," created by American inventor David Bushnell.
To capture all the high-speed ballistics action, director Stuart Powell relied upon a range of high-speed cameras called the Phantom Range. "It is like a supercomputer," Powell told Ars. "It is a camera, but it doesn't feel like a camera. You need to be really well-coordinated on the day when you're using it because it bursts for, like, 10 seconds. It doesn't record constantly because it's taking so much data. Depending on what the frame rate is, you only get a certain amount of time. So you're trying to coordinate that with someone trying to fire a 250-year-old piece of technology. If the gun doesn't go off, if something goes wrong on set, you'll miss it. Then it takes five minutes to reboot and get ready for the new shot. So a lot of the shoot revolves around the camera; that's not normally the case."
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