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Prepare for power outages with this discounted Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus power station

Best for: Homeowners and RV owners looking for a lot of emergency backup power, or those expanding their system at some point in the future. The deal: The Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus is $1,709 (was $1,899) at Amazon .…

Former NASA chief sounds alarm on China's lunar "exploration" plans

In a forthcoming memoir, former US politician and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson offers a blistering assessment of China, saying the United States must do all it can to retain its leadership in space exploration.…

Obsbot’s Meet 2 4K webcam with AI framing is now 23% off

Remote workers and casual streamers who want a meaningful upgrade over a laptop's built-in webcam without spending much. The Obsbot Meet 2 4K Webcam is now $99 (was $129) at Amazon and £99 (was £129) in the UK . • Why we…

Privacy policies on top LLMs take over 20 minutes to read, so perhaps it no wonder people are signing their lives over to ChatGPT and others

But what is it doing with that data? You can check the privacy policy to find out – assuming, that is, that you have the time to do so. A new study has found that the average time it takes to read a privacy policy for an…

DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale

Europe requires every member state to have a regulatory sandbox of a very different kind operational by August 2027. DeepSeek has published the method it uses to train AI agents at scale, describing a platform that runs…

I replaced my Wi-Fi extender with an old Android phone after years of dead zones

You could have the most advanced router, but its signal still wouldn't reach that one room on the second floor. There are several solutions to this. You could set up a mesh router network or Wi-Fi extenders around your…

This week’s new questions

To answer a question or ask a new one, email lastword@newscientist.com To answer this question – or ask a new one – email lastword@newscientist.com . Questions should be scientific enquiries about everyday phenomena, and…

When will the AMOC collapse? We don’t know, but should still prepare

Science tells us that this is mechanistic: pull the trigger and you will get hurt. But in some cases, large uncertainty remains. One particular concern is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the…

Researcher finds that cats lie around for a ridiculous amount of time

For hours at a time – in the case of the more free-range cat, sometimes several days – they vanish from sight. What might they be doing? Torturing the local small-animal population perhaps, or chasing fallen leaves…

Why do we feel emotional about fictional characters? part 2

Human evolution and archaeology indicate that for most of humanity’s existence, information was passed down by the spoken word, probably often to children. Even factual events and people would be subject to distortion…