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Scientists reportedly produced a previously unknown crystalline form of water ice while subjecting samples to temperatures near 2,357 degrees Celsius, conditions far beyond those where ice normally exists. The extreme heat was paired with high pressure to force water molecules into a novel structural arrangement not seen in standard ice phases.
Comparing a 256GB SSD to a 1TB hard drive isn't a simple capacity contest, since SSDs retrieve data electronically from flash memory while HDDs rely on spinning platters and moving read/write heads, making SSDs significantly faster for booting and running programs. Whether 256GB is enough depends heavily on usage: it suits light users who rely on cloud storage, while heavy local file storage, creative work or gaming may require 512GB, 1TB or more.
Engadget published a recap covering recent product reviews, including the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop and the Insta360 Luna Pro camera. Senior writer Devindra Hardawar praised the ThinkPad's speed, light weight and OLED display, while noting it sticks to a familiar, utilitarian design rather than chasing a more stylish look.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps recovered a 19-foot Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle made by Anduril after it malfunctioned during a surveillance mission near the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. Navy has characterized the lost drone as an older, defective, unclassified unit carrying no sensitive sonar or radar equipment, while Iranian embassies have publicly mocked the loss online.
WIRED's roundup of the best standing desks for 2026 includes expert commentary questioning whether standing desks are truly beneficial. Kinesiologist Anne-Kristina Arnold of Simon Fraser University notes that prolonged standing carries its own cardiovascular risks and that research on standing workstations remains mixed. The guide also breaks down the tradeoffs between electric and manual standing desks for buyers.
College students are increasingly engineering workarounds to avoid AI-detection tools used by professors, according to a New York Magazine report. One NYU student built a bot with AI coding tools that completes his WebAssign calculus homework slowly, mimicking human typing speed to avoid raising suspicion from timestamp checks, and has since shared the tool with classmates.
An early Geekbench 7 submission attributed to Apple's unreleased A20 Pro chip shows single-core and multi-core scores of 4,006 and 11,460, roughly 23% and 27% higher than the A19 Pro. The result reportedly tops single-thread scores from AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Intel's Core i9-14900KS by 26% and 32% respectively.
The landmark British documentary series that began in 1964 by following 14 seven-year-olds from different social backgrounds is ending with a final installment, 70 Up, airing on ITV. Participant Jackie Bassett, chosen partly for her chatty personality, has appeared in every update since childhood, and the series has tracked the group's lives every seven years for six decades. It became the longest-running documentary series in history and was named the most influential TV show of the past 50 years in 2024.
Apple has redesigned its Health app, with health VP Sumbul Desai discussing how the company is integrating AI to give users more personalized coaching rather than just raw data. The update aims to help people act on health metrics instead of simply tracking them.
China's Yaogan 50-02 reconnaissance satellite, which had settled into an unusual retrograde orbit roughly 590 miles up, broke apart months after launch. The US Space Force has tracked 43 fragments now circling Earth at altitudes between 372 and 683 miles, and the cause of the breakup remains unannounced, though astronomer Jonathan McDowell speculated it could be a battery explosion or a debris strike.
Werner Herzog criticized a 2025 film called 'About a Hero,' which used an AI-generated script trained on his movies and an AI deepfake of Herzog himself as narrator. He said he told the filmmaker beforehand that the idea was 'abysmally stupid' and refused to participate in the project.
Apple has published a new study introducing SimpleDesign, an AI model that generates protein sequences and their 3D structures together in one process rather than sequentially. It builds on Apple's earlier SimpleFold work, which used flow matching paired with general-purpose Transformer blocks to predict protein structures from amino acid sequences more efficiently than models like AlphaFold.