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Jason Hiner/ZDNETSamsung just unveiled its latest batch of foldable phones, tablets, and watches during the company's Unpacked event, and the upgrades this year are rather tame compared to previous times.Also: Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 5 has a new screen layering design, and it's a big dealThe biggest change has to do with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy chipset, which powers the foldable and tablets. Improvements to the displays across the lineup are great, too. But a deeper dive into the Galaxy Z Flip…

Horrible crimes have been committed amid Tokyo’s shadowy nightlife, and a young Western woman is in the middle of it. So are the police and the media, each handling things as they’ve been taught, which doesn’t endear them to each other. No, it’s not another season of HBO’s Tokyo Vice, although Jake Adelstein, the American expat newspaperman whose memoir is the basis of that series, plays a major role here as well. The new Netflix doc Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case is a more modest affair; it plays like a pretty…

When chatbots first became commercially accessible, companies big and small embraced them with open arms. “Have a robot handle easy customer service questions in seconds? Amazing!” — we thought. The problem was, these early chatbots were less C-3PO and more an annoying barrier to an actual human. From being asked: “Can you repeat the question” 10 times over to being directed to a completely unrelated information page — customers simply don’t have the patience to deal with badly made chatbots…

The Miyako keelback snake above and the Miyako grass lizard (below) are endemic to the Miyako Islands. There has long been debate about how these species arrived on Miyako Island. Credit: S. Seki Did an ancient island facilitate migration among the Ryukyu Islands? Compiling the latest geological and biological data, a research group from Tohoku University has provided compelling evidence that this was the case.…

Screenshot: ParamountWhen Paramount made the shocking decision to go back on a greenlight for season 2 and remove season 1 from its own streaming service, Prodigy suddenly and infamously became the first Star Trek show in a generation where episodeslargely legally inaccessible to view in the United States. In a slight bit of good news today, that’s no longer the case.How Has Ortegas Changed and Grown Coming into Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 | io9 InterviewAt San Diego Comic-Con during, ironically, a panel…

Some parasites have taken the simple life to whole new extremes.Scientists have recently found a creepy, mind-controlling worm that is missing some of the most fundamental genes in the animal kingdom.Ironically, the super long and thin 'hairworm' (also known as a 'horsehair worm') completely lacks the cellular-level 'hairs' that allow most animal cells to move, sense, or filtrate in liquids.Photo of two live tangled hairworms of the species Gordionus violaceus. (Gonzalo Giribet)These microscopic filaments are known as…

An asteroid flew past Earth at an extremely close distance, but was seemingly missed by all space agencies! NASA revealed that the asteroid in question, Asteroid 2023 NT1, made its closest approach to Earth on July 13 when it entered Earth's 60,000-mile radius, which is 4 times closer than the Moon! It was not a small rock either, as scientists later revealed it was nearly 200 feet wide, about 4 times the size of the Chelyabinsk asteroid that caused massive damage in Russia. The space rock was found by the Asteroid…

The shows were over, but for Phil Kaufman, the headache was just beginning. Then the road manager for the Flying Burrito Brothers, one of the bands credited with finding the common ground between rock & roll and honky-tonk country, Kaufman had just returned home to Los Angeles, after some Burrito-related work in 1969. In the trunk of his Ford Country Squire station wagon were the embroidered cowboy suits the band had worn onstage and on the cover of its first album, The Gilded Place of Sin. Named after Nudie Cohn,…

Two live tangled individuals of Gordionus violaceus, a freshwater hairworm, from Germany. Credit: Gonzalo GiribetHairworms are missing the tiny “hairs” responsible for cell movement, filtration, and sensing that every other known animal has.In a world teeming with bizarre animals, hairworms arguably count among the strangest. These are parasitic worms known to manipulate the behavior of their hosts, a phenomenon sometimes termed “mind control.”In an intriguing development, a new study in the journal Current Biology has…

If the United States of America had the same mortality rates as other wealthy countries, more than 1 million people would have avoided death in 2021, a new study found. Researchers have termed these excess deaths the Missing Americans."The number of Missing Americans in recent years is unprecedented in modern times," says Boston University epidemiologist Jacob Bor."Think of people you know who have passed away before reaching age 65. Statistically, half of them would still be alive if the US had the mortality rates of…