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Google Gemini’s Pokémon Success and Its Hidden Limitations
Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Claude struggled to beat Pokémon Red despite months of effort. ...

The Shutdown of Mr. Deepfakes: The Fall of a Deepfake Porn Giant
Over the weekend, Mr. Deepfakes, once the world’s most notorious online destination for non-consensual ...

F1 in Miami: Pastels and High-Tech Racing Evolution
After a brief break following Imola, the Formula 1 paddock descended on Miami’s Hard ...

NOAA Budget Cuts Threaten Hurricane Forecasting This Storm Season
As the Atlantic hurricane season approaches (June 1–November 30), forecasters are riding high on ...

Amos-6 Revisited: SpaceX’s Sniper Theory and Aftermath
Introduction On the morning of September 1, 2016, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lay prone ...

The Last of Us: Dina and Ellie’s Seattle Adventure
HBO’s season 2 of The Last of Us continues to blend stark post-apocalyptic drama ...

Review: Thunderbolts Elevates VFX with AI Workflows
The curious asterisk in the title of Marvel’s Thunderbolts* only makes sense once the ...

The End of Moore’s Law and Gaming Hardware Price Cuts
For over four decades, video game consoles have followed a reliable trajectory: launch at ...

Doge Recruiter Staffing AI Agents for U.S. Government
Introduction A disruptive startup founder has unveiled an ambitious plan to deploy autonomous AI ...

Trump’s First 100 Days: Environmental Impact Analysis
Executive Summary During the first 100 days of the Trump administration, a sweeping rollback ...

Amazon’s Project Kuiper: A Deep Dive into Secret Satellites
After years of whispers and speculation, Amazon has finally peeled back the curtain on ...

Censorship Undermines Federal Research Funding
Introduction In early May 2025, the National Science Foundation (NSF) abruptly terminated multiple lines ...

DOJ Aims to Divide Google’s Ad Tech: Key Impacts Reviewed
While Google is often thought of first as a search giant, its true stronghold ...

Baxter: Trump Tariffs to Cost $60–70 Million in 2025
During its Q2 earnings call on May 1, 2025, Baxter International’s Executive Vice President ...

Trump’s 2026 Budget: Deep Cuts to Science and Competitiveness
On May 2, 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) delivered ...

Texas probes toothpaste makers over fluoride dispute
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a formal investigation into Colgate-Palmolive Company and ...

Microsoft’s Passwordless Default: Technical Insights and Trade-offs
Overview of Passwordless by Default In May 2025, Microsoft announced that all newly created ...

Judge Examines Fair Use in Meta’s AI Training Impacting GenAI
At a high-stakes hearing on May 1, 2025, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria signaled ...

Kubernetes v1.33: Improvements in Pod Scheduling and CSI Allocatable Counts
Scheduling stateful applications reliably depends heavily on accurate information about resource availability on nodes. ...

Screwworms Are Coming: A Horrifying Threat
By popular demand, and with fresh urgency: the New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) is ...

GM’s Use of AI and Tech in Motorsports
General Motors’ newly unveiled Charlotte Technical Center is poised to become the beating heart ...

Fruit Flies’ Defense Against Parasitic Mites
Have you ever battled insomnia fueled by anxiety or doom-scrolling at 3 am? In ...

Legal Analysis of Trump’s PBS and NPR Defunding Attempt
On May 2, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at terminating ...

Cyborg Cicadas: Merging Biology and Electronics for Alerts and Music
Introduction Summer evenings in many parts of the world are defined by the rhythmic ...

Google’s NotebookLM App: Features, Architecture, and Roadmap Overview
At Google I/O 2025, Google teased its long-awaited NotebookLM Android application, marking a major ...

Claude Research Mode: 45-Minute Deep Dives with Enhanced Integrations
On May 2, 2025, Anthropic unveiled a major upgrade to its AI assistant Claude, ...

Epic Games Store Launches Zero-Fee Tier for Developers
In a bold move to reshape the economics of PC game distribution, Epic Games ...

Spotify Responds to Apple’s Open Payments: Analysis
In the wake of a federal judge’s blistering ruling that Apple was in “willful ...

White House FY2026 Budget Shifts Focus to Commercial Lunar Solutions
Budget Overview and NASA Funding Cuts On May 2, 2025, the White House Office ...

GTA VI Delayed to May 26, 2026: Technical and Market Insights
Rockstar Games has officially announced that Grand Theft Auto VI will now launch on ...