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When University of Pennsylvania student Crystal Yang was in high school, she and her friends were avid players of the trendy online game Wordle. One of Yang’s friends, however, is blind and was unable to join in.  That inspired Yang, while still a high school student, to work with researchers at Texas A&M University looking at conversational audio interface possibilities for the game. Soon, she founded a nonprofit called Audemy that has developed more than 50 audio-powered games accessible to blind and visually impaired players. The organization is now also at work on an accessible gaming console that will incorporate…

With rodent teeth, bat-like ears and a woodpecker-inspired hunting strategy, this primate may just be one of evolution’s strangest experiments.gettyThe aye-aye looks almost nothing like a primate. Most would describe it as a creature assembled from spare animal parts. It has oversized ears like a bat, teeth like a rodent and glowing eyes like an owl. But its most famously bizarre feature is its middle finger: impossibly long, unnervingly thin and jointed in a way that gives it an almost spider-like range of motion.For centuries, scientists struggled to classify it. Early naturalists thought it might be a squirrel. Others compared…

You’re at the playground, making small talk with another mom while your kids dig in the sandbox. The conversation follows a predictable script: sleep schedules, daycare waitlists, whether your toddler will eat anything green. It’s pleasant enough, but you’ll forget about it by the time you pile your kids into the car for nap time. But what you really wanted to ask is: What’s something about birth and postpartum that surprised you? What do you wish your partner understood? How did becoming a mother change your marriage? Those are the conversations that actually matter, because they deepen relationships and allow…

Published May 10, 2026 05:00AMOnce banned at almost every National Park Service (NPS) site, hunting is set to return to several dozen NPS areas in 2026, documents show.On May 4, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration directed the Department of the Interior (DOI) to immediately relax restrictions on hunting and trapping at NPS sites, including national recreation areas, wildlife refuges, and other public lands. The Times cited an internal DOI memo, dated April 21, from Interior Secretary Douglas Burgum, that also planned to unwind hunting bans at additional sites later in 2026. The National Parks Conservation Association, a…

Keychron B11 Pro foldable wireless keyboard with Alice ergonomic layout. KEYCHRONAnyone who uses an ergonomic or Alice keyboard on a desktop setup can find it jarring when they are forced to switch to using a conventional keyboard layout on a laptop. It’s hard to readapt a typing style for anyone who is used to a split layout. Many people opt for keyboards with an ergonomic and split layout, which is also known as an Alice keyboard. The reason people use these keyboards is that the split layout promotes a more comfortable wrist and arm posture when typing. Some people say…

Nvidia has put its name behind a fledgling effort to put mini-data centers beside people’s homes in boxes that look like HVAC units. It’s a “power” play, considering that the main bottleneck to building out more data center capacity is not money or chips, but rather retrofitting the electrical grid to supply the power. The idea, put forward by a California smart utility box company called Span, is to put the GPUs where the power has already been allocated—at the home. Span says the average household uses only about 42% of the electricity allotted to it, and rarely reaches peak…

Published May 10, 2026 03:03AM“I don’t know about you,” said the cowboy in his booming Wyoming voice. “But when I follow these old trails, I can just see the wagons coming up over the hill.”My wife and I were chatting with this friendly old-timer at a multi-use trailhead, out where the sagebrush desert meets the Rocky Mountains. We were clad in hiking clothes, while our new acquaintance was decked out like John Wayne. He stared at the horizon, imagining oxen-pulled wagon trains sending up dust. We stood there awkwardly and sipped from insulated water bottles. It was a sunny morning…

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY – MAY 09: Khamzat Chimaev of Russia prepares to face Sean Strickland in the UFC middleweight championship fight during the UFC 328 event at Prudential Center on May 09, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)Zuffa LLCKhamzat Chimaev has had enough of the weight cut to get to 185 pounds. Moments after he lost his UFC middleweight championship to Sean Strickland in the main event of UFC 328 in New Jersey, Chimaev told UFC President Dana White, “I want to move up. I don’t want to fight in this weight class anymore.”White obliged and…

Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams, course notes, lecture videos, and grades. The disruption tied to a cyberattack hit in the middle of finals period for many colleges, a high-stress time when students and instructors rely heavily on the platform. By late Thursday, Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said the platform was available again to most users. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft. On Friday, Instructure and Canvas no longer appeared on a…

Total solar eclipse of April 8th 2024 with the sun peaking from behind the moon creating. a diamond ring effect. Totality with bright corona visible against dark blue sky with a few clouds.gettyWhen is the next total solar eclipse? If you missed April 8, 2024 — or it left you wanting more — it’s time to start planning for mainland Europe’s first total solar eclipse since 1999. On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, the Moon will pass directly in front of the sun, casting its shadow across parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain. For a few minutes, the day will turn…