While the chaos of tariffs will make things unpredictable for some time, the latest analyst guess-work about what an iPhone 16 Pro Max could cost comes in with a much smaller increase in price than previously estimated.It's about to cost a lot more money for an iPhoneThe United States Trump administration levied extreme tariffs against nearly every country, territory, and island, inhabited or not. The combination of nonsensical math behind tariffs and vague exemptions that won't apply to Apple chips makes price estimates difficult to ascertain.A report on Monday evening from UBS, seen by AppleInsider, offers smaller price hikes compared to an earlier report. Instead of a $2,300 iPhone 16 Pro Max with 1TB of storage, the new numbers bring that price closer to $2,062. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Building a house in the U.S. is about to get a lot more expensive — not just because of materials, but because the people who build them may no longer be around. A new NYT piece walks through a $1.29M Phoenix home project and shows how losing immigrant labor could drive up costs by 17%, while new tariffs on materials from Canada, Mexico, and China add another 5%. Calculations via NYTFor architects, that means potentially fewer projects breaking ground, tighter budgets, and more design compromises. Less labor, pricier materials, and clients doing the math.

Project Files: https://www.patreon.com/posts/126188799 . This is the 22nd part of the tutorial series, where we are going to implement a Real Time Strategy game using Unreal Engine and C++. In this episode, we are going to work on how to reflect the faction color of the selected actor in the UI. Here the profile icon/ character icon of the selected character will dynamically have the same color as the faction color of the selected actor. Similarly the health bar of the character will also have the faction color. We will also setup a UI material for the profile images to dynamically change the character color. Full C++ RTS Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTm9yU0zou5_PYxEdjNbAgbVRn-daOga . Unreal Strategy game with Blueprints series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTm9yU0zou4Eulmi8YIfzHiNZEzfbSMk ► 👇 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 // 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐀 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧! https://www.patreon.com/codelikeme ►Patrons will have access to project files of all the stuff I do in the channel and other extra benefits Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClb6Jh9EBV7a_Nm52Ipll_Q/join Like my facebook page for more content : https://www.facebook.com/gamedevelopersclub/ Follow me on twitter : https://twitter.com/CodeLikeMe2 Follow me on reddit : https://www.reddit.com/user/codelikeme #CodeLikeMe #unrealengine #ue5 #ue4 #indiegamedev

Having been in the rumour mill for about a couple of years now, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion’s remake seems to be on the verge of releasing, according to journalist Jeff Grubb.  Caught by VGC, on a recent Giant Bomb livestream, Grubb claimed that the Virtuos-developed remake is going to “shadow drop at any moment,” with a release allegedly due for some time this month. That, incidentally, aligns with recent claims by prominent leaker NateTheHate.  The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion’s remake has allegedly been developed in Unreal Engine 5, and on top of a visual and technical overhaul, it features various gameplay improvements. The title will reportedly feature changes to stealth mechanics, the UI, stamina management, archery, some aspects of melee combat, and more. Read more on that through here. Which platforms the remake will launch is unknown. However, based on Microsoft’s increasing multiplatform focus, it wouldn’t be surprising to see it arrive on all available platforms day and date. Stay tuned for more updates.

When searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System, sometimes nothing is almost as good as something. Even a lack of biosignatures on examined exoplanets can still tell us a lot about the probability of life on the billions of planets we haven’t checked out yet, according to a study in The Astronomical Journal. The study employed a sophisticated statistical analysis to determine the minimum number of exoplanets that would need to be observed to generate useful answers about how many potentially inhabited planets are out there. They determined that finding no signs of life on 40 to 80 exoplanets would not, in fact, rule out that such life exists. Instead, such an answer would only whittle down the probability a bit.Searching for Life on ExoplanetsIt would mean that fewer than 10 percent to 20 percent of similar planets in the Milky Way potentially could support life. Extrapolating outward, that 10 percent, when applied to the entire Universe, still equates to about 10 billion potentially inhabited planets — so, it's not nothing.There is, however, a catch: uncertainty. Every observation contains a certain level of the unknown. Were things measured the right way? Did the researchers interpret the data correctly? Was there something the researchers overlooked?Such questions are more than just philosophical, the authors argue. They could determine how many resources are dedicated to a particular area."It's not just about how many planets we observe – it's about asking the right questions and how confident we can be in seeing or not seeing what we're searching for," Daniel Angerhausen, a physicist at ETH Zurich and an author of the paper, said in a press release. "If we're not careful and are overconfident in our abilities to identify life, even a large survey could lead to misleading results."Those questions will steer how missions such as the international Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) mission led by ETH Zurich will be conducted. LIFE aims to analyze dozens of exoplanets that resemble Earth in terms of mass, radius, and temperature. The mission will seek signs of water and oxygen as well as other chemical components that indicate at least potential for life.Addressing Uncertainty for Upcoming MissionsAs a result of the statistical analysis, researches should change the questions they ask on upcoming missions, according to the press release.“To address sample uncertainty, for instance, the authors point out that specific and measurable questions such as, "Which fraction of rocky planets in a solar system's habitable zone show clear signs of water vapor, oxygen, and methane?" are preferable to the far more ambiguous, "How many planets have life?"Article SourcesOur writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in newspapers, but switched to scientific magazines. His work has appeared in publications including Science News, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.

Researchers believe they have identified a network of spies to help combat illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon rainforest. But unlike other espionage efforts, there is no risk of betrayal from the new assets: Trees aren’t known for spilling secrets. Humans have coveted the Amazon’s natural resources for generations, particularly its gold. But with most of the region’s easily accessible precious metals long gone, illegal mining operations now focus on extracting the soil’s hidden gold particles. To do this, the miners use a method that requires adding toxic mercury into the ground and allowing it to bind to any surrounding gold. Because the resulting amalgams have a much lower melting point than gold alone, miners then burn the mercury away to collect the residual lucrative metal. Meanwhile, the mercury-laden smoke disperses into the atmosphere where it can harm the surrounding environment and local populations. The annual rings inside certain trees near these mines don’t just tell their age—they also store important environmental biomarkers over time. Recently, an international team led by researchers at Cornell University wondered if those biomarkers could indicate excess atmospheric mercury levels. To test their theory, experts traveled to the Peruvian Amazon and documented their findings in a study published on April 8 in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Researchers first took core samples from fig trees at five sites. Two locations were far removed from mining activity, but three were within roughly 3.1 miles of mining towns previously known to rely on amalgam burning. One site was also adjacent to protected forest lands. The subsequent analysis results were clear: mercury levels were highest in wood sampled from mining-adjacent sites and lower at those further removed from mines. Additionally, higher mercury levels in mining-adjacent fig trees also coincided with the historical rise in amalgam burning that began after the year 2000. “We show[ed] that Ficus insipda tree cores can be used as a biomonitor for characterizing the spatial and potentially the temporal footprint of mercury emissions from artisanal gold mining in the neotropics,”  Jacqueline Gerson, a Cornell University biological and environmental engineering associate professor and study first author, said in a statement. Although annual tree rings can tell researchers when mercury levels began rising, they can’t necessarily offer precise locational directions to the illegal miners. At the same time, higher concentrations may at least serve as reference points indicating a closer proximity. Regardless, the literal spy rings of fig trees may soon offer a cheap, powerful means for regional monitoring and conservation work in the Amazon. The post Trees can snitch on illegal gold miners in the Amazon appeared first on Popular Science.

News Archaeology Ancient Arabian cymbals ring up Bronze Age musical connections The copper cymbals suggest regional trade extended beyond pottery, beads and knives A pair of Bronze Age cymbals unearthed in southeastern Arabia, including this one shown during excavations, point to long-distance sharing of ritual and musical traditions around 4,000 years ago. Khaled Douglas By Bruce Bower 8 hours ago Ritually important musical practices resounded across Bronze Age cultures from Arabia to South Asia, a pair of unusual discoveries suggest. Excavations at a roughly 4,000-year-old settlement near the modern village of Dahwa in Oman have uncovered two copper cymbals with far-reaching cultural implications, say archaeologist Khaled Douglas of Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman, and colleagues. Despite looking much like previously unearthed copper cymbals from a Bronze Age civilization in what’s now Pakistan’s Indus Valley, chemical analyses peg the Dahwa cymbals as products of copper sources in Oman, the scientists report April 7 in Antiquity. That suggests residents of the Dahwa settlement used local metals to make regionally distinctive cymbals. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.

Nature, Published online: 08 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00862-1But public-health specialists worry that misinformation and funding cuts could affect vaccination rates.

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total solar eclipse, as millions of people looked up to witness totality.

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