Honda’s motorsport division must be doing some spring cleaning. Today, the Honda Racing Corporation announced that it’s getting into the memorabilia business, offering up parts and even whole vehicles for...
First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant
A tokamak moves forward as two companies advance plans for stellarators. There are a remarkable number of commercial fusion power startups, considering that it’s a technology that’s built a reputation...
“Chaos” at state health agencies after US illegally axed grants, lawsuit says
Nearly half of US states sued the federal government and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today in a bid to halt the termination of $11...
Apple enables RCS messaging for Google Fi subscribers at last
With RCS, iPhone users can converse with non-Apple users without losing the enhanced features to which they’ve become accustomed in iMessage. That includes longer messages, HD media, typing indicators, and...
What we’re expecting from Nintendo’s Switch 2 announcement Wednesday
Implausible: Long-suffering Earthbound fans have been hoping for a new game in the series (or even an official localization of the Japan-exclusive Mother 3) for literal decades now. Personally, though,...
The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece
Williams’ success with APX led him to create several games for Synapse Software, including the beloved Alley Cat and the incomprehensible fantasy masterpiece Necromancer, before moving to the Amiga, where...
Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines
Satisfactory starts out as a game you play, then becomes a way you think. The only way I have been able to keep the ridiculous factory simulation from eating an...
Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows
As Distractify detailed, the video in question includes Noem telling people who live outside of the US that the US government will “hunt you down” if they enter the country...
FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm’s privacy promises for genetic data
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he’s keeping an eye on 23andMe’s bankruptcy proceeding and the company’s planned sale because of privacy concerns related to genetic testing data. 23andMe...
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
“Hey, this is a very precarious situation we’re in.” NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore receives a warm welcome at Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston from NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman...
Housing Roundup #11
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it...
With new Gen-4 model, Runway claims to have finally achieved consistency in AI videos
For example, it was used in producing the sequence in the film Everything Everywhere All At Once, where two rocks with googly eyes had a conversation on a cliff, and...
Apple updates all its operating systems, brings Apple Intelligence to Vision Pro
Apple dropped a big batch of medium-size software updates for nearly all of its products this afternoon. The iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, tvOS 18.4, and visionOS 2.4 updates...
DOGE accesses federal payroll system and punishes employees who objected
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access “to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across dozens of agencies,” despite “objections from senior...
Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon
The stories we almost missed this month Also: testing the efficacy of WWI “dazzle” camouflage; how the male blue-lined octopus survives deadly mating ritual. Credit: J. Przedwojewska-Szymańska/PASI It’s a regrettable...
Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it
2024 was “a year of growth,” according to fire-suppression company Fire Rover, but that’s not an entirely good thing. The company, which offers fire detection and suppression systems based on...
Even Trump may not be able to save Elon Musk from his old tweets
A loss in the investors’ and SEC’s suits could force Musk to disgorge any ill-gotten gains from the alleged scheme, estimated at $150 million, as well as potential civil penalties....
France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking
A typical ATT pop-up asks a user whether to allow an app “to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites,” and says that “your data will be used...
There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs
If you’re still using a computer you bought during the Clinton administration, interesting news: Crystal Dew World, developers of apps like CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalDiskMark, have released an update to their...
The 2025 BMW M5 Touring review: Way more power, way too much weight
Basic functions like adjusting the fan speed of the air conditioning system require taking your attention off of the road to call up the comfort settings on the display, and...