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The skull of Hippopotamus amphibius of Cava Montanari. Cranium in dorsal (A), ventral (B), right lateral (C), left lateral (D) and posterior (E) views. Mandible in occlusal (F) right lateral (G) and left lateral (H) views. Scale bar 10 cm. Credit: Mecozzi et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 New analysis settles long-standing confusion about the age of a key fossil. Modern hippos first dispersed in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene, a geological epoch that spanned from about 770,000 to 126,000 years ago. This is…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysAnker's Nano 22.5W Power Bank, and I've had the fortune of testing it over the past months. To Android users and new (or incoming) iPhone users who are looking to add a USB-C charger to their daily carry, I'm happy to say that this one from Anker is quite impressive. Also: The best MagSafe battery packs: Expert researched and reviewedSee, I have quibbles with many portable chargers. Those include forgetting a wire, not knowing where to hold the charger while it's charging my…

Not long ago, a well-known tipster, Max Jambor, said that the OnePlus 12 series will launch globally in January. That managed to create a lot of confusion, as only one phone was mentioned up until that point, even OnePlus didn’t mention the ‘series’ part in its teasers. Well, the mystery has seemingly been solved, as the second OnePlus 12 series phone has been uncovered. The second OnePlus 12 series phone has seemingly been uncovered Now, the moment you heard the ‘series’ part, many of you probably expected a ‘Pro’ or an…

Researchers discovered a universal scaling law in neutron stars, including magnetars, that might explain mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). By studying the sub-structure of their radio emissions, they found a commonality in their rotation periods, enhancing our understanding of these celestial phenomena.A universal relation for pulsars, magnetars, and potentially fast radio bursts.An international research team led by Michael Kramer and Kuo Liu from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, have…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETWhat's the Black Friday deal?     Amazon is currently selling the Nano 22.5W Power Bank for $21, and I've had the fortune of testing it over the past months. To Android users and new (or incoming) iPhone users who are looking to add a USB-C charger to their daily carry, I'm happy to say that this one from Anker is quite impressive. Also: Best early Black Friday deals: Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and moreSee, I have quibbles with many portable chargers. Those include: forgetting a wire, not knowing…

According to director Rob Reiner, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has been a wound on the American psyche for 60 years. “I was a junior at Beverly Hills High School,” Reiner says on a recent video call. “I was 16, and yeah, I will never forget it. “I remember a student coming in and talking to my physics teacher,” he says. “Mr. Crean. I remember his name. And he turns to us and he says, ‘I have some terrible news,’ and he told us. And then we all got sent home.” “Who Killed JFK?”…

Christina Darby/ZDNETWhen I got the iPod Shuffle over fifteen years ago, I was indoctrinated into the Apple ecosystem and have never left. As a result, when I was in the market for earbuds, I first bought myself AirPod Pros and was very loyal, that was until I got my hands on Soundcore Liberty 4 earbuds.  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};…

In 1852 a South African mathematician asked a seemingly simple question that triggered endless dispute, left a trail of overturned publications in its wake and culminated in a resolution that has stretched the very tenets of math. The color conundrum that stirred up so much trouble: What is the fewest number of colors needed to color a map so that no neighboring states or other designated areas have the same hue? Here’s how it works. Check out the map of the contiguous U.S. below. Credit: June…

Despite featuring many of the same weapon types, different games have varied ways of tackling how each of them works and feels. Sometimes this evolves through sequels, which is clearly evident when looking how how bows worked between The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II. The decisions that lead to this change were numerous, according to a senior game designer at Naughty Dog, who has broken down exactly how it works.In an enlightening thread on Twitter, designer Derek Mattson made the distinction…

Newton Raphson Method or Newton Method is a powerful technique for solving equations numerically. It is most commonly used for approximation of the roots of the real-valued functions. Newton Rapson Method was developed by Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, hence the name Newton Rapson Method. Newton Raphson Method involves iteratively refining an initial guess to converge it toward the desired root. However, the method is not efficient to calculate the roots of the polynomials or equations with higher degrees but in the…