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A new analysis reports that autistic individuals face significantly shorter lifespans than the general population, with an average reduction of about 13.8 years. Researchers found that much of this gap stems from preventable causes of death, including influenza, drowning, and malnutrition rather than autism itself.
Elegoo is holding an Elegoo Day sale throughout September, offering its Centauri Carbon 2 Combo printer for $399, which includes 1KG of PLA filament. The Core XY printer supports a four-color Canvas system, auto bed leveling, 31 sensors, and a 256mm cubed build volume, with print temperatures reaching 350C for materials like PETG and ABS.
Apple has launched the Watch Series 12 with faster charging but the same 24-hour battery life, alongside the Ultra 4, which extends battery life to 50 hours. Both models run watchOS 27, which brings tighter Siri and Apple Intelligence integration, including AI-suggested apps, new one-handed gestures, expanded workout and women's health tracking, and a Siri Recap feature for real-time transcription and translation.
Instagram now allows users to promote posts they're tagged in—such as group photos or collaborations—directly onto their main profile grid, rather than leaving them buried in the separate Tagged tab. Users can add posts via DM notifications, the post's three-dot menu, or by pressing and holding items in the Tagged tab, and can remove them later without deleting the original post. Added posts appear in reverse-chronological order but can be manually reordered, building on Instagram's June feature allowing custom post arrangement.
Amazon has dropped the price of the 13-inch iPad Air with M2 chip, 256GB storage and cellular connectivity to $885, a $164 discount off its usual price. The listing matches the model's previous all-time low, matching an earlier discount seen on the same configuration.
A new study by researcher Chris Schmitz tracks 84 cases across 11 jurisdictions showing sharp increases in filings to public services since ChatGPT's launch. UK housing ombudsman complaints more than doubled from 2,600 in 2022 to over 7,000 last year, the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau saw complaints grow fivefold, and similar spikes occurred in Brazilian court petitions and German parliamentary submissions. Schmitz's paper, to be presented at the AI Ethics and Society conference, links the rise to AI tools making it easier to draft forms and complaints, though it stops short of proving direct causation.
A hobbyist blogger purchased a WiFi-enabled Lidl Smart Kettle and began probing its network behavior after setting it up through the companion Lidl Smart Home App. Using nmap and netcat, they found the kettle opens a single TCP port (6668) that responds to connections but returns no identifiable banner or HTTP response, leaving its underlying protocol a mystery for further investigation.
Apple has released its long-rumored foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, running iOS 27. The device features a 7.6-inch inner display, multitasking tools, multi-camera FaceTime, and first-ever Apple Pencil compatibility for an iPhone, alongside a redesigned interface that shifts the app dock and menus to the side when unfolded.
Scientists have applied a decorrelation stretch method originally developed by NASA to enhance Mars imagery, using it instead to uncover faded rock art on Earth. The technique works by remapping the original colors of an image into an expanded range rather than just boosting contrast, making subtle pigment differences visible to the human eye.
A new mathematical proof revisits the long-standing four-color theorem, which states that any map can be colored with just four colors so no adjacent regions share one. The proof builds on the historical lineage from Alfred Kempe's flawed 19th-century attempt, later fixed conceptually through Kempe chains, and the 1976 computer-assisted proof by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken that checked thousands of configurations.
At a Republican midterm rally in Dallas, President Trump pledged that if the GOP retains control of both the House and Senate, his administration would issue a $5,000 payment to every American adult. He offered few details beyond requiring the money be spent on US goods and services, warning supporters not to spend it abroad. Analysts estimate the payout would cost roughly $1.3 trillion, before administrative expenses or inflationary effects are factored in.
During Norway's annual Jammertest exercise in 2024, engineers fed false satellite-navigation signals to a rescue helicopter and a small plane flying over Andøya, causing tracking screens to show erratic loops and jagged paths that didn't match the aircraft's real routes. The test, which examines how equipment reacts to jammed or spoofed GNSS signals, is scheduled again for mid-September this year amid rising real-world interference linked to Russia's war in Ukraine.