Beats Solo Buds available to order now: battery with 18 hours of battery life and a small case for $79.99

Following their announcement in late April, the new Beats Solo Buds earbuds are now available to order ahead of their launch later this week. Priced at $79.99, the Solo Buds offer 18 hours of battery life right in the earbuds themselves, and come in the smallest case ever for a Beats earphone product. We’ve had … Read more

Some of the oldest life forms on Earth can live on hydrogen. What it means

Sydney, Australia: Three quarters of all matter in the universe consists of hydrogen. The early Earth was also rich in hydrogen, thanks to intense geological and volcanic activity. Just as stars burn hydrogen to produce heat and light through nuclear reactions, life emerged by extracting energy from this simple molecule through chemical reactions. Some of … Read more

No, that’s not a phone: XREAL’s new touchscreen AR glasses accessory can shoot 3D videos and is made to save your phone’s battery life

XREAL Beam Pro front and back.

What you need to know XREAL is a Chinese technology company that makes augmented reality (AR) glasses. Today at AWE 2024, XREAL announced a brand new Android mobile device called Beam Pro, which serves as an accessory for the XREAL AR glasses. The XREAM Beam Pro offers dual 3D cameras, allowing users to record 3D … Read more

Life after star death? How life could arise on planets orbiting white dwarfs

a glowing blue star floats in space next to an earth-like planet of the same apparent size.

Planets could survive the death of their star and be able to sustain life – and now astronomers are hunting for them. Stars don’t survive forever, the sun included. In about five billion yearsEarth’s star will begin to deplete its supply of hydrogen used to generate energy nuclear fusion at its core. The Sun’s core … Read more

Forza Horizon Series 35 Preview: Modern Life is Good

After four weeks of retro-futurism, the next new series of Forza Horizon 5 will focus on modern cars, with Modern Horizons launching on Thursday, June 20. The new series, its 35th to date, was revealed and discussed in Playground Games’ latest “Let’s Go” stream, ahead of the game update that accompanies it on June 18. … Read more

Lava tubes and water frost found on Mars offer double opportunities in the search for life

Olympus Mons seen here in an image from the Trace Gas Orbiter with frost on top. PC ESA DLR FU Berlin University of Berlin. Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website covering nature, politics, science, health and travel. Even more evidence of liquid water on Mars has been discovered by a European … Read more

Nature’s Warning: Early Signs in Marine Life That Predict the Next Mass Extinction

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Researchers have used a detailed global dataset of foraminifera fossils to study shifts in marine community structures before mass extinctions, providing an early warning system for future biodiversity losses due to climate change. Led by Anshuman Swain and Adam Woodhouse, the study highlights the importance of monitoring ecological changes to predict future extinctions, potentially shaping … Read more

Don’t worry, Life is Strange: Double Exposure won’t canonize either ending of the original game, says Deck Nine

Life is strange: double exposure will respect the player’s final decision from the first game and will not reveal either original final canon, Deck Nine has confirmed. Following the game’s initial reveal at last weekend’s Xbox Games Showcase, an extended livestream aired last night, featuring interviews with key developers and Max’s returning voice actor Hannah … Read more

Scottish Jet2 passenger ‘banned for life’ after ‘attacking crew’ on Tenerife flight

A Scottish teenager has been ‘banned for life’ from Jet2 after the airline claimed an incident on board a flight to Tenerife was ‘one of the worst’ cases of disruptive behavior the company has seen. Jay Dalziel, 19, is said to have forced the flight from Glasgow to divert to Shannon Airport in Co Clare, … Read more

Two million years ago, an encounter between the sun and something outside the solar system changed all life on Earth

New research from Boston University and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute suggests that the sun passed through a massive hydrogen cloud two million years ago, directly impacting the protective heliosphere and possibly permanently altering all life on Earth. Evidence for this event and its effects on Earth’s climate also shows that the Sun’s location in the … Read more