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Scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale used CRISPR-modified yeast to convert PET plastic and agricultural waste into proteins, fats, and flavor compounds, which were then 3D-printed into cookie shapes called 'µBites.' The team presented the work at the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago, though the cookies haven't been tasted yet pending university approval.
A Reddit user with an Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 found that running the laptop in Asus' Eco mode, which disables the discrete GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU to save battery, caused Windows to eventually uninstall the Nvidia drivers entirely. Investigation of Windows logs revealed that pnpclean.dll, a routine that purges drivers for hardware absent past a timeout period, treated the disabled GPU as permanently disconnected after 15 days and wiped its drivers.
CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski said in a new video that the studio is aiming to release The Witcher 4 in 2028. Before that, the company plans a 2027 launch for Songs of the Past, an expansion for The Witcher 3, which will be featured at Gamescom's Opening Night Live this week.
Chuwi has released the Unibook, a budget laptop built around Intel's new Core Series 3 'Wildcat Lake' processor, priced at $449 with 8GB of RAM. The launch comes as rivals like Dell and Acer struggle to match or undercut Apple's MacBook Neo, which itself saw a $100 price hike just three months after debuting amid a wider memory-chip price surge.
The Trump administration's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moved to boost bond purchases last week, hoping to push yields down and ease the government's debt-servicing burden. Yields dipped briefly but climbed back to pre-intervention levels by Friday, with the 30-year bond trading near multi-decade highs. Trump has responded by attacking the Federal Reserve and even threatening Switzerland over its lower rates.
Researchers at Kyoto University led by Mitsuaki Kaneko, Shunya Shibata, and Tsunenobu Kimoto built a silicon carbide transistor that operates at 600°C using standard ion implantation, the same doping process used in commercial chip fabs. Their bottom-gate, double-well design narrowed the gap between designed and measured threshold voltage to under 0.1V at 400°C, a sharp improvement from the more than 2V drift seen in conventional layouts, while also curbing substrate leakage as temperatures rise.
Ben Blumenrose, co-founder of venture firm Designer Fund and a two-decade design veteran, says AI-generated website design has improved roughly fivefold in the past year. He still notices telltale AI patterns like pill-shaped buttons, floating dashboards and heavy gradients, but expects those distinctions to nearly vanish within six months to a year. Designer Fund has backed Framer, a no-code website design platform, as part of its bet on this shift.
The second episode of HBO's DC series 'Lanterns,' starring Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre, adds significant new layers to the show's plot and characters. The episode builds on the premiere by deepening the mystery and character relationships central to the series.
Archaeologists exploring a cave in Spain discovered roughly 120 Roman-era inscriptions dedicated to a previously unrecorded deity referred to as 'Domina.' Evidence suggests the cave site may have held ritual or religious importance dating back even further, potentially to the Stone Age.
A tech writer covering Flock Safety's AI license plate cameras outlines simple visual cues to identify the company's devices amid growing public confusion. The guide highlights Flock's distinctive oval, hooded camera shape with a circular lens as the clearest identifying feature, distinguishing it from competitors like Obvio and other traffic cameras. The piece also criticizes crowdsourced tracking apps like DeFlock for spreading inaccurate information about camera locations.
Luis DeSantiago, a substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, discovered a sexualized AI-manipulated image of himself circulating on TikTok after friends alerted him in March. He traced the account to a middle school student he knew, and reported the incident to school administrators. He is one of at least four educators who told WIRED they have been targeted with similarly fabricated explicit content by students.
YouTuber JerryRigEverything's durability test found the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold cracked along both antenna lines near its hinge, and the outer display detached completely without tools. This marks the fourth straight year a Google foldable has failed at the same structural point, despite Google's claim that this model's build is three times stronger than before.