Forget 'debloat apps.' Sophia Script gives you real control over Windows 11. Here's how it works.

The Sophia Script is an open-source PowerShell module designed to debloat and fine-tune Windows 11 (and Windows 10 ). It is ...

Bacterial pathogens build antibiotic-resistant 'bunkers' using filament scaffolds

Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens—including ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

The teenager was researching the Miura-ori fold when Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and wildfires raged in Southern California. “I thought maybe these origami patterns, which are strong and ...
Futurism

“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up

At the height of his powers, and perhaps his amphetamine habit, legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick cranked out around thirty novels in two decades, along with what was probably several hundred ...
InfoWorld

Python picks up speed with a new JIT

Faster Python is now within reach, thanks to its shiny new JIT. But we also have fast dataframes thanks to Pandas, and three slick new GUI interfaces for SQLite. And then there’s Zed, the new ...
New Scientist

Why a tool-using cow could change how we see farm animals

A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for the pig he ...
Vogue

New Moon, New You: Here’s What the First Major Celestial Event of 2026 Means for Each Sign

A new dawn is upon us. The planets are moving in very exciting ways this year which will, astrologically speaking, cause quite a few shake-ups both personally and politically. The first sign of this ...
9to5Mac

iOS 26 gave Apple Music three of my favorite new features in years

Apple Music took a big leap forward this year in iOS 26, adding a bunch of new features, three of which have quickly become some of my favorite additions in years. Apple Music has long experimented ...
Golf Digest

How to make your New Year’s golf resolutions stick

It’s time to make New Year’s resolutions and if you’re like us, you have big plans for your golf game in 2026. Instructors such as Golf Digest Best Young Teacher Megan Padua Buzza say it’s common for ...
KARE 11

MN educators create app that personalizes education for each student

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Two Minnesota educators developed an application in 48 hours to help students and teachers. Let’s Get REAL is an AI-powered classroom tool that supports multiple reading levels, ...
The Verge

New York’s new law forces advertisers to say when they’re using AI avatars

Two bills signed Thursday deal with how AI-generated people — real or entirely synthetic — can appear in commercial content. Two bills signed Thursday deal with how AI-generated people — real or ...