There are few faster ways to improve your smartphone photo and video game than by snapping up a gimbal. This increases image stabilization, reducing hand shake to make for smoother shots and help ensure a still is framed just as you want it. is an option worth considering, especially since it’s on sale. This model is currently $20 off, which brings it .

The Osmo Mobile 6 has a larger clamp than DJI’s previous models, meaning larger smartphones and ones with bulkier cases can slot in. If you attach an iPhone, the Mimo app goes into camera view when the gimbal is unfolded so you can start shooting photos and videos with it faster.

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Vloggers, action videographers and still photographers alike could all benefit from the DJI Osmo Mobile 6. The smartphone gimbal has dropped to its lowest price ever in a new sale.

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The handle is said to be more comfortable to hold compared with earlier versions. DJI retained the built-in extension rod from the previous model, so you can use the Osmo Mobile 6 as a selfie stick. You can set it up as a tripod too.

DJI included an array of smart features, such as timelapse, gesture control, automatic dynamic zoom, panorama and story mode. Using a side wheel, you can adjust the focal length and zoom level manually.

There’s a new status panel built in that displays battery levels and a button that lets you switch between various modes. DJI also upgraded its ActiveTrack feature. This supports stable tracking over longer distances and helps your phone’s front camera to better track subjects as they rotate.

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Memes have become a common form of humor in the digital realm, especially among younger generations. Now, memes are even shared to express certain feelings or actions in one’s life, making them a popular way to laugh with others online.

Memenetic allows users to create and share their memes with the world. This is especially popular among Gen Z, who use memes frequently to communicate with friends.

The humble beginnings of memes

Memes’ evolution

Memes in mainstream pop culture

The rise of Memenetic

The future of memes is here

Google announced today that it has signed a deal with nuclear startup Kairos Power to build seven small reactors to supply electricity to its data centers. The agreement promises to add around 500 megawatts of carbon-free electricity at a time when energy demand for data centers and AI is surging.

The new power plants are scheduled to come online by the end of the decade, according to Google. It’s not clear whether the reactors would hook up to Google’s sites directly — an arrangement known as “behind the meter” — or if they would feed into the grid with Google claiming the carbon-free power by way of its agreement with Kairos.

With the deal, Google joins Microsoft and Amazon in turning to nuclear power to satiate its thirst for electricity. In September, Microsoft announced that it would pay Constellation Energy to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island that was shuttered in 2019. Earlier this year, Amazon said it would build a hyperscale data center and directly connect it to another nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. 

If Kairos can hit the 2030 deadline, it would be a slight revision to a recent forecast: as recently as July, the company was targeting commercial operations by “the early 2030s,” according to an article published by the U.S. Department of Energy. Even if Kairos can hit the revised target, it’s locked in a race with fusion startups, many of which are aiming to turn on commercial-scale power plants before 2035.

Kairos is one of a new breed of nuclear startups that are building so-called small-modular reactors (SMR) in an attempt to lower the cost and speed the construction of nuclear power plants.

Most nuclear plants are massive installations, supplying 1,000 megawatts or more but taking years to plan and nearly a decade to build. The newest fission reactors in the U.S., Vogtle Units 3 and 4 in Georgia, were commissioned in 2023 and 2024, respectively, snapping a seven year drought (the next newest reactor was commissioned in 2016). Still, they were seven years late and $17 billion over budget.

SMR startups are attempting to build nuclear power plants faster and cheaper by using mass production techniques to bring down costs and speed construction. Kairos tries to advance the technology a step further by cooling the reactor not with water but molten salts of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the startup’s plans for a 35-megawatt demonstration reactor, something that has eluded Oklo, another SMR startup.

Despite the regulatory nod, Kairos still faces significant challenges. No commercial small-modular reactors have been commissioned yet, which means the economics remain largely unproven. On top of that, Kairos’s molten salt design bucks decades of industry experience with water-cooled reactors.

But Kairos’s biggest challenge might not be technical at all. While 56% of Americans say they favor nuclear power, according to both Pew Research, 44% remain opposed. The number opposed might rise when reactor sites are picked; the Pew survey only asked people if the U.S. should use expand nuclear power generally, not in their backyards. What’s more, while support for nuclear power is near a recent high, far more people support wind and solar, two technologies that are available today and cost far less than new nuclear power plants.

October 10, 2024

Game Freak Inc.

Notice and apology regarding the leak of personal information due to unauthorized access

Game Freak Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Satoshi Tajiri, hereinafter referred to as “the Company”) has discovered that the personal information of our employees and others was leaked in connection with unauthorized access to our server by a third party in August 2024.

We sincerely apologize for the great inconvenience and concern caused to all concerned parties.

1. Leaked personal information

Personal data regarding our employees, etc.*

Items: Name, company email address

Number of cases: 2,606

*Our employees, contracted business workers (including G-appointed employees and former employees)

2. Response to those whose personal information has been confirmed to have been leaked

We are contacting the relevant employees, etc. individually.

For those who cannot be contacted individually due to resignation, etc., we will notify them through this announcement and set up a hotline to handle inquiries regarding this matter.

3. Measures to prevent recurrence

We have already rebuilt and re-inspected our servers, but we will work to prevent recurrence by further strengthening our security measures.

4. Inquiries regarding this matter

Inquiries from those affected by this matter can be made through the hotline below.

Do you have an idea for a song but are not sure how to write it? Maybe you just have some lyrics you want to put a tune to? A new free AI music generator called Tad AI offers you a chance to bring those ideas to life, producing royalty-free songs in seconds with minimal input. The relatively simple interface produces some pretty impressive results. Whether it can thread the needle and avoid the issues causing legal and ethical headaches for Suno, Udio, and other AI music generators remains to be seen. 

Tad AI provides various levels of assistance in writing music. It’s similar to its rivals but is notably intuitive in how you produce the song. You can describe how you want the song to sound in as much detail as you choose, but Tad AI does have quite a lot of musical genres and moods you can select from that are already available. The genre options obviously relate to the genre of the tune, but the mood-based list of options can vary the tone within that genre, as a rock or rap song could be sad, romantic, or angry while still being the same genre.

This month sees a very special visitor to the skies over Earth: a comet that only passes by once every 80,000 years. The last time this comet passed Earth, Neanderthals populated the planet, hunting with stone tools. Now, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has been photographed on its journey around the sun by humans living in orbit in the International Space Station.

The comet made its closest pass of the sun on September 27, but is even more visible in the sky now as it passes by Earth. ISS astronauts have tracked the comet as it approaches, and the next few days should offer the best chance for those of us here on the surface to see this remarkable sight streaking through the sky.

“Though the comet is very old, it was just discovered in 2023, when it approached the inner solar system on its highly elliptical orbit for the first time in documented human history,” NASA wrote in an update. “Beginning in mid-October 2024, Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) will become visible low in the west following sunset. If the comet’s tail is well-illuminated by sunlight, it could be visible to the unaided eye. Oct. 14-24 is the best time to observe, using binoculars or a small telescope.”

As well as the image above, taken by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, some NASA missions have also caught glimpses of the comet. A striking image was taken as the comet passed the NASA/European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which orbits the sun and saw this blazing view of the comet on October 10.

Comets have their distinctive tails because of their composition. Unlike asteroids, which are made of rock, comets are made of a mixture of rock and ice. As they get close to the sun, the comet warms up and this ice sublimates into gas, creating the stunning tail.

However, this effect also makes comets’ brightness and lifespan hard to predict as they can break up depending on how much ice material they hold and how quickly they disintegrate. There had been hopes that this comet would be a super-bright “comet of the century,” but this is still a relatively dim object in the sky. According to space.com, the comet may already be breaking up and may not survive for much longer. So if you’re hoping to get a glimpse of this ancient wonder, you better move fast.