John Honeycutt, chair of NASA’s Artemis II mission management team, said the decision to relax the safety limit between Artemis I and Artemis II was grounded in test data. “The...
A Valentine’s Day homage to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
That thief turns out to be Jen, who has secretly been studying martial arts. And Jen’s really not keen on her upcoming arranged marriage because she has fallen in love...
Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt
Are you out there, Planet X? Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook Out beyond the orbit of Neptune lies an expansive ring of ancient relics, dynamical...
Rocket Report: Say cheerio to Orbex; China is getting good at booster landings
“You absolutely have to have a plan to compete with SpaceX on price.” The Ariane 64 rocket makes its debut on Thursday. Credit: État-major des armées Welcome to Edition 8.29...
Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Pressure is mounting on tech...
When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket delivered
The Ariane 64 flew with an extended payload shroud to fit all 32 Amazon Leo satellites. Combined, the payload totaled around 20 metric tons, or about 44,000 pounds, according to...
WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as “unethical”
“Exploiting scarcity is not ethical,” the WHO wrote in its statement today. Dangerous trial The United Nations health agency highlighted that the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose is “an effective,...
Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers
This spring, a Southern California beach town will become the first city in the country where municipal parking enforcement vehicles will use an AI system looking for potential bike lane...
Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones
Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Verizon this week imposed a new roadblock for people who want to...
Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage
Both statements verified that the integration never launched and that no Ring customers’ videos were ever sent to Flock. Ring did not credit users’ privacy concerns for its change of...
The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices
In short, the first Android 17 beta is chock full of things that may interest developers and modders, but there’s little in the way of user-facing changes right now. Android...
$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show
MST3K‘s 2010s revival looked forward; this one is emphatically looking backward. “I have to admit, the man looks good standing next to puppets.” – Joel Hodgson on Mike Nelson in...
Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself
Self-copying RNAs may have been a key stop along the pathway to life. By base pairing with themselves, RNAs can form complex structures with enzymatic activity. Credit: Laguna Design There...
What if riders don’t close a robotaxi door after a ride? Try DoorDash.
Autonomous vehicles have a lot of potential. As long as you program them right, they won’t speed, won’t break traffic laws, and won’t get drunk, high, abusive, or violent. And...
Why is Bezos trolling Musk on X with turtle pics? Because he has a new Moon plan.
“It’s time to go back to the Moon—this time to stay.” Step by step, ferociously? Credit: Jeff Bezos/X The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, does not often post on the...
I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn’t make a single cent
please do this human thing These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace. I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In...
ChatGPT-5.3-Codex Is Also Good At Coding
OpenAI is back with a new Codex model, released the same day as Claude Opus 4.6. The headline pitch is it combines the coding skills of GPT-5.2-Codex with the general...
OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
But 1,000 tokens per second is actually modest by Cerebras standards. The company has measured 2,100 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 70B and reported 3,000 tokens per second on...
Trump official overruled FDA scientists to reject Moderna’s flu shot
Still, while Moderna largely stuck with its plan to use a standard dose for all participants, it altered its plans based on the feedback. Specifically, it added a comparison of...
Spider-Noir teaser comes in colorized “True Hue” and black and white
The footage was shot digitally and processed separately to create the black-and-white and color versions. The team coined the term “True Hue” for the latter, since the intent was to...
