SpaceX's upgraded Starship V3 launched today from Starbase, Texas, for the first time, successfully deploying 22 dummy Starlink satellites and completing a planned fiery splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Reuters reports: The towering vehicle, consisting of the upper-stage Stars...
The Pentagon released a second batch of UAP files, including 50 videos and documents showing unexplained objects over the Middle East, Syria, Iran, and in NASA recordings. Despite the reports, the agency stresses that it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin. The G...
NASA plans to open competition for the contract to operate JPL for the first time in nearly a century, meaning Caltech's historic role managing the iconic deep-space lab could come to an end when its current agreement expires in 2028. According to JPL, Caltech has managed the...
The Washington Post looks at arguments that "AI's coming upheaval may demand massive infusions of cash to everyday Americans". But they also look at some of the alternatives: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for similar public-relief measures, including, potentially, uni...
Qualys's Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel "that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distributions." Friday their blo...
Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that "modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating." That's the good news. But the same research "also confirmed that there's no chance to limit warming to the inter...
On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word "disregard". Google's AI Overview responded "Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!" below an icon for hearing the word "disregard" pronounced — then displayed several inches...
The Free Software Foundation announced this week that "its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far." (And new dates and locations are being...
SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit.
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Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on.
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Keep your phone, laptop, handheld gaming console, and other electronics running with these travel-friendly power banks.
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IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.
You and your team of 23rd century archaeologists have been digging for days with no result, but it seems your efforts have finally been rewarded. You stand before what looks to be a rusty shipping container with large letters scratched into its side. The letters read: "The Ar...
Roger Linn is a legend in the world of musical instruments. He's been at the cutting edge of music technology for decades. He created the LM-1, the first drum machine to use samples, and its successor, the LinnDrum, is one of the most iconic drum machines of all time. They we...
Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup's story.
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Massive OLED TVs and Sonos speakers might be stealing the Memorial Day spotlight, but there are also plenty of great deals that won’t set you back nearly as much. In fact, some of the best discounts we’re seeing are on gadgets that retail for $50 or less, from portable ch...
Wishing for your very own Dyson vacuum? Don’t miss these vacuum deals happening over the holiday weekend.
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Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?
Finding a cafe that fits you can be a revelatory experience. For me at least, there are few places outside of my house that I can truly feel comfortable in. I'm lucky enough to have two options in walking distance: a coffee shop that's bright, airy, and full of art, and anoth...
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 129, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, come on you Gunners, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've mostly been sick, which has meant nea...
"Two astronauts whose careers embody excellence, leadership, and service."
Its do-it-all thermoplastic lining can both carry gear through wet muck and transport wet, mucky groceries home from the store.
A formal petition to the US government calls for sanctions on Chinese seafood imports.
Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my f...
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.
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We’ve tested almost a dozen options that handle everything from scheduling and weather changes to water conservation, so you don’t have to.
Plus: Google publishes a live exploit for an unpatched flaw, the feds arrest two men accused of creating thousands of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, and more.
Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries.
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Memorial Day isn’t until Monday, but sales on our favorite gear are going on all weekend.
At the Apache Iceberg Summit last month, Google announced new interoperability features for Apache Iceberg in BigQuery. The preview of the serverless Iceberg REST catalog lets teams create, update, and query the same Apache Iceberg tables in BigQuery and in engines like Spark...
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Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups.
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People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.
"This capability is not common for satellites conducting typical missions."
Ebola outbreak risk level increased as deaths reach 177 with nearly 750 cases.
Google tells Ars it fixed the first-gen Chromecast bug.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.
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FCC seeks opinions on whether ABC show's decisions are "based on newsworthiness."
Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term "disregard," the AI Overview section would include a response like what you'd see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as ...
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Workaround flouts law that bans NTSB disclosures of cockpit audio recordings.
With Memorial day weekend kicking off the travel season, we’re seeing a lot of deals pop up on travel gadgets, from portable power banks to noise-canceling headphones. One of the best right now is Twelve South’s AirFly Pro 2 Bluetooth adapter, which lets you use your wire...
Meta's new Forum app for iPhones takes Facebook Groups and moves them to a dedicated app with a dedicated AI chatbot to go with it, like an AI revamp of the ill-fated Groups app Facebook shut down in 2017. Rather than going to ChatGPT or tacking "Reddit" onto the end of a Goo...
We are committed to empowering every developer by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development. The post GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in...
Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness from 24 hours to seconds,...
Despite the countless number of online resources, it’s easy to get confused when trying to center an element. There are documented solutions, but do you really understand why the code you picked works? Let's look at the current state of centering options today in 2026. The ...
InfoQ has launched a five-week online AI Engineering certification for senior practitioners working on production AI systems, covering RAG, agents, AI platforms, evals, reliability, and operational trade-offs. By Artenisa Chatziou
What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand the underlying reasons for user behavior, it helps to look beyond the surface and explore hidden motivations, root causes, and the different layers of reality that shape how people act. Brough...