NASA has fixed the problem that forced the removal of the rocket for the Artemis II mission from its launch pad last month, but it will be a couple of...
Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
In a statement, Accenture CEO and chair Julie Sweet said: By acquiring Ookla, we will help our clients across business and government scale AI safely and build the trusted data...
FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger “a lot cleaner” than defunct Netflix deal
FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality. Credit: Getty Images | Kenneth Cheung Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has...
What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes
“a key change in how people constructed knowledge” Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals. Credit: The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University...
There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV
Last time we looked at the used electric vehicle market, it was to see what the options are if you’re spending $10,000 or less. Two solid choices emerged quickly: a...
M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon
Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family. As part of today’s MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro...
New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices
Most of Apple’s laptop lineup is getting refreshed today—the high-end MacBook Pros are getting M5 Pro and M5 Max chip refreshes, and the MacBook Air is getting upgraded with an...
Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years
Apple updated its low-end MacBook Pro with the Apple M5 chip back in October, but the higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch Pros stuck with the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips....
This is why our electricity bills are so high right now
Trump, however, asserted in his State of the Union address that prices were going down. “Nobody can believe when they see the kind of numbers and especially energy, when they...
As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar “harvester”
Starting smaller with FLIP This is not the first time the two companies have worked together. Last August, Interlune announced that it would fly a multispectral camera on a smaller...
A Tale of Three Contracts
The attempt on Friday by Secretary of War Pete Hegsted to label Anthropic as a supply chain risk and commit corporate murder had a variety of motivations. On its face,...
Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.
Because the press release was widely circulated online, the thief could be anyone. South Korea’s National Tax Service has no clear suspects, Gizmodo suggested, and no easy way to claw...
Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US
The petition cited research suggesting that in the US airline industry, some “mergers increased fares not only on overlap routes but also on non-overlap routes.” Charter/Cox competition not entirely nonexistent...
Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
Though the rules are among the strictest in the US, locals say they aren’t enough. A rendering of the QTS data center currently under construction in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit:...
$599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost
This version of the Apple M4 is slightly cut down compared to the version that ships in Macs or that came with the M4 iPad Pro. It has only 8...
Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed
Smart underwear measures farts, brain cells play Doom, and AI discovers rules of an ancient game. Illustration of a star that collapsed, forming a black hole. Credit: Keith Miller, Caltech/IPAC...
Apple’s new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599
The iPhone 17e will support MagSafe, which was notably absent from the 16e. Credit: Apple The iPhone 17e will support MagSafe, which was notably absent from the 16e. Credit: Apple...
It’s almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven
Winding roads revealed slightly more body roll than we saw in the Uncharted, despite both models feeling significantly lighter than the average electric crossover. Easy steering effort helps enhance a...
Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding
A highly regarded administrator A former Republican House member from Oklahoma, Bridenstine served a generally well-regarded term as NASA administrator from April 2018 to January 2021 during President Trump’s first...
Trump FCC’s equal-time crackdown doesn’t apply equally—or at all—to talk radio
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s unequal enforcement of the equal-time rule. James Talarico and Stephen Colbert on the set of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Credit: Getty Images In the...
