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Android Authority traced worsening game performance on the Pixel 11 series—stuttering and freezing in titles like Genshin Impact—to Google quietly making ANGLE the default OpenGL ES implementation on the new phones. ANGLE translates OpenGL ES calls into Vulkan commands, and testing showed it activating in popular games on the Pixel 11 Pro XL where it wasn't used on the Pixel 10 Pro XL.
A wave of recent AI model and tool launches has delivered capabilities far beyond what existed just months ago, yet public reaction has grown more negative rather than more welcoming. Critics point to concerns over environmental costs, erosion of creativity and critical thinking, and fears that advanced AI systems could act in ways harmful to humanity. Media coverage is increasingly framing these issues around specific companies or figures the public can hold accountable.
NASA scientist Robert Wagner spotted a fresh lunar crater by comparing images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide-angle camera taken in October 2025, tracing the impact to sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024. The crater, since named McGetchin after scientist Tom McGetchin, measures 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep, and scientists estimate an impact of this size occurs roughly once every 132 years.
San Mateo County's Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 to advance an ordinance requiring businesses to obtain permits before deploying autonomous, battery-powered robots in workplaces. Companies must submit an Economic Impact Assessment and Workforce Mitigation Plan, choosing to redeploy displaced workers at equal pay, offer 60 days' notice with severance, or pay into a new county fund for retraining. The rule, believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S., still needs final adoption before taking effect 30 days later.
Rare Beauty, the cosmetics brand founded by Selena Gomez in 2020, directs 1% of its sales revenue to the Rare Impact Fund. The fund is pursuing a goal of raising $100 million to broaden access to mental health resources for young people.
NASA-affiliated scientists have documented the largest newly formed crater on the Moon, resulting from an impact recorded in 2024. The impact site is unusual because it produced a cold spot stretching more than four miles across, a thermal signature researchers describe as extremely rare.
A new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute finds that 53% of Americans are extremely or very concerned about AI's environmental impact, up from 41% a year ago. The rise is driven largely by Democrats, though the poll also shows widespread unease about the local effects of data centers that power AI and cloud computing.
The Nördlinger Ries is a large circular impact crater in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, Germany, that formed a lake covering roughly 400 square kilometers before silting up over about two million years. Buildings in the town of Nördlingen were constructed from local stone containing an estimated 72,000 tonnes of microscopic diamonds, created when the impact struck a graphite deposit. The same event is also linked to moldavite tektites scattered as far as 450 kilometers away in the Czech Republic.
Home Depot's Labor Day sale includes $50 off Weber's Kettle and Spirit E-210 grills, with the green Kettle model available at half price for $100. The retailer is also offering buy-one-get-one deals on Milwaukee power tools, including a free M18 Fuel impact driver with battery purchase, plus discounts on Ryobi landscaping equipment.
OpenAI has begun showing advertisements to users on its free tier and the 399-rupee ($4) Go plan in India, one of its biggest markets by user activity. The feature, already active in 38 countries including the US, Japan, South Korea and much of Europe, excludes users who are or are predicted to be under 18.
A contributor to Entrepreneur, involved in launching the Louisiana Impact Fund's CXO Leadership Program, describes what she calls the 'plateau paradox' — the point where continued success stops translating into growth. She outlines three mindset shifts that helped her move past stagnation, starting with widening perspective from individual contributor to enterprise-level thinker.
Pixel 11 owners are reporting severe graphical glitches that make Genshin Impact unplayable, a problem tied to the Tensor G6 chip's PowerVR GPU, which HoYoverse says doesn't meet the game's minimum requirements. Google confirmed it is working with HoYoverse on an optimization fix expected in an upcoming Genshin Impact update.