My first sex toy was a bright blue dildo. I was about 19, and as a college student in New Hampshire, I did what anyone in my position would do: hotfooted it to the closest city to find a sex shop. With my best friend in tow, I jetted in and out of the Condom World on Newbury Street so fast that I only had time to grab the first sex toy I saw and pay for it, keeping my head down the whole time.

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As we head closer to the upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event, we're hearing more about the upgrades coming to the S26 series from both Samsung and many reliable tipsters. The latest leak about an upgrade has come from a Korean publication that claims the S26 lineup will be able to generate AI images in less than a second. Big news for users who love generating AI images…

Look, I get it: there’s absolutely nothing interesting or special about not being interested in football. People who are performatively uninterested in watching sports are deeply tiresome. But I have a special excuse: I’m British. To me the Super Bowl is like a broadcast from an alien planet, recognizable in some respects, but completely indecipherable in others. Although I hear it has commercials and a nice bit of live music in the middle.

Nintendo has lined up its first showcase of the year. The next Nintendo Direct is taking place on February 5 at 9AM ET, the company has announced. It will run for around 30 minutes. As previous reports suggested, it will focus on third-party titles from partners instead of first-party games from Nintendo itself. So if you were hoping for new Mario or Zelda announcements, that may not happen during this event.

Apple made Lockdown Mode for people at high risk CART couldn’t get anything from the iPhone. “Because the iPhone was in Lockdown mode, CART could not extract that device,” the government filing said. The government also submitted a declaration by FBI Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky that said the agency “has paused any further efforts to extract this device because of the Court’s Standstill Order.” The FBI did extract information from the SIM card “with an auto-generated HTML report created by the tool utilized by CART,” but “the data contained in the HTML was limited to the telephone number.”

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Anyone who’s used an overhead ceiling fan knows it can be a pain to work. Yanking its chain gets the motor running, but there’s no easy visual indication of what speed setting the fan is  on. The blades can also take a frustratingly long time to reach their full speed.

Blizzard just held its second annual Overwatch Spotlight presentation, and the lengthy showcase laid out a lot of changes coming to the hero shooter this year. Overwatch’s next season is being branded as a complete revamp to the game, so much so that Blizzard is calling it “Season One” rather than Season 21, and is also dropping the 2 from the game’s title.

With leaks giving mixed signals about an anticipated Galaxy S26 Ultra feature, a veteran leaker has set the record straight by asserting with full confidence that Samsung's upcoming top-tier phone will fail to truly embrace the Qi2 standard. Waning attraction The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra won't have a magnetic system. Early Galaxy S26 series leaks suggested that all three phones would have built-in magnets to improve alignment with wireless chargers and enable snap-on accessories.Subsequent rumors cast doubt on earlier reports by indicating the device will not offer Qi2 support.

Despite its supremely sleek design, the iPhone Air actually has a pretty respectable battery life, lasting for somewhere in the region of 27 hours if you’re continuously streaming video. But you’re still going to be wary of it dying on you if you’re on a trip or just having a particularly screen-heavy day. That’s where Apple’s iPhone Air MagSafe battery pack comes in, and it’s currently on sale for $79.

The portable scented card. The essence of the reproduced scent is inserted into the paper via scent printing. Michelle O’Reilly/CC BY The portable scented card. The essence of the reproduced scent is inserted into the paper via scent printing. Michelle O’Reilly/CC BY Her team’s analysis of the residue samples contained beeswax, plant oils, animal fats, bitumen, and resins from coniferous trees such as pines and larches, as well as vanilla-scented coumarin (found in cinnamon and pea plants) and benzoic acid (common in fragrant resins and gums derived from trees and shrubs).

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Visiting a museum could soon be a truly multisensory experience—smells included. Thanks to recent advances in the field of biomolecular archeology, scientists can now detect traces of molecular fingerprints on ancient artifacts. From these tiny particles, scientists can determine how the objects may have smelled.

During Blizzard’s Overwatch Spotlight presentation, the company announced some of the biggest updates in the hero shooter’s decade-long life. However, one of the most notable changes revealed wasn’t an addition; it was a subtraction. Overwatch 2 is dropping the “2” from its title, and will just be called Overwatch moving forward. This move is loaded in a few ways, particularly in that it can be seen as an acknowledgement that the Overwatch 2 Blizzard first announced in 2019 never truly materialized, instead feeling more like a significant update to the previous game than a truly new entry.

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will be unveiled later this month, and the hot new feature on the phone is the Privacy Screen. The latter is designed to prevent people standing near you from looking at sensitive information on your screen. You can be in an elevator, a bus, sitting at a restaurant or standing at a party, and one of these so-called "shoulder surfers" could be trying to get a two-factor authentication code, your PIN, or the credentials you use to log into important apps and websites.

If you need a little help with your New Year's resolution to be more active, you can save on the latest Apple Watch right now. The Apple Watch Series 11 is on sale for $299, which is $100 off and the lowest price we've seen. We named the Apple Watch Series 11 as our choice for best smartwatch overall. It scored a 90 in our review thanks to its 24 hours-plus of battery life and a thin, light design that's easy to wear.

In the midst of our reporting on Nike’s turbulent year, we failed to emphasize one fact: Even as Nike’s corporate leadership flails in a post-Covid world, the company’s shoes and athletic apparel still make up a huge market segment and are still the leading performance models in the industry. Every marathon shoe is just a copy of the iconic Nike Vaporfly, and the Air Force 1 is still one of the top-selling sneakers in the world.

Why you can trust Live Science Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best ones for you. Find out more about how we test. Introducing the smallest and most affordable binoculars in the NL Pure range. The range currently consists of seven variations, including the birding-flavored 8x42, and the larger 10x52 and 14x52 that are better suited to stargazing, and they all come in a choice of green or burnt orange.

Apple's smallest tablet is a great option for frequent travelers or anywho who prefers their slabs be the size of an ereader. The latest iPad mini with the A17 Pro chip is down to one of the best prices we've seen right now — $400, which is $100 off. Apple released this iPad mini in late 2024 and it was a solid update.

Overwatch is entering a new era, and that comes with new annual storylines and an emphasis on lore that actually pushes the story forward. But this isn’t the first time we’ve been told to expect a new focus on narrative in the hero shooter. Once upon a time it was supposed to receive a cooperative campaign that told the story of the titular organization fighting Null Sector, an army of Omnic machines led by Ramattra, a radical leader fighting for machine freedom.

Verizon has been accusing T-Mobile of running misleading ad campaigns. Verizon claims that T-Mobile inflates the savings that can be had by switching to the Un-carrier. Attempts by watchdog BBB National Programs' National Advertising Review Board (NARB) division to get T-Mobile to correct course have been futile, leading Verizon to take the matter into its own hands. Verizon takes the legal route…

Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations in more than half a dozen countries, researchers said Wednesday. The threat group, tracked under names including APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Sofacy, pounced on the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, less than 48 hours after Microsoft released an urgent, unscheduled security update late last month, the researchers said.

The countdown is on, and Super Bowl LX, between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, is less than a week away. This year's game will be held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, and the Bay Area will be host to loads of other football events this week, too, including Thursday's NFL Honors, where we'll learn who this season's MVP is.

No Olympic competitions covers more ground than the 50-kilometer cross-country ski races. The grueling event takes more than 2 hours to complete, requiring competitors to ski a distance longer than a marathon. That's still, however, less than an eighth of the distance between the two official host cities of the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics—Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. With events spread across more than 22,000 square kilometers (8,500 square miles) and eight cities or towns in northern Italy, these are the most geographically dispersed Games in Olympic history.

During today’s Overwatch Spotlight event, Blizzard kicked off the hero shooter’s next narrative arc. Called “The Reign of Talon,” it will serve as an anchor for the next year of story content both in and out of the game itself. The stage setter for this was a new animated cinematic which showed new HBIC Vendetta taking her “rightful” place at the top of the Talon organization.

This makes the already short list of potential upgrades even shorter, and nearly kills off my whole excitement about the flagship phone entirely.  Although Samsung has been enjoying steady sales of its Galaxy Ultra phones, which are usually the only ones to be in the top 10 best-selling phones worldwide aside from the affordable Galaxy A series, Samsung's flagships have been consistently dropping the ball in terms of innovation for years now.