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“What the hell are you doing?” How I learned to interview astronauts, scientists, and billionaires
His account of Starliner’s thruster failures—and his desperate efforts to keep the vehicle flying on course—was riveting. In ...
Rocket Report: “No man’s land” in rocket wars; Isaacman lukewarm on SLS
Ars Technica has mentioned SpinLaunch, the company that literally wants to yeet satellites into space, in previous Rocket ...
That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does ...
Is there a Grand Unified Theory of cocktails? Maybe.
In essence, Peterson's work adds scientific rigor to what is frequently called the "Mr. Potato Head" theory of cocktails, a phrase coined by the folks at Death & Company, who operate several craft ...
Apple silent as Trump promises “impossible” US-made iPhones
Analysts predict that Apple has no clear short-term options to shake up its supply chain to avoid tariffs entirely, and even if Trump grants Apple an exemption, iPhone prices may increase not just in ...
Streaming price hikes more likely amid uncertainty around global taxes, economy
Calls for a streaming tax in the UK come after 2024's 25 percent decrease in spending for UK-produced high-end TV productions and 27 percent decline in productions overall, per the report. Companies ...
Quantum hardware may be a good match for AI
Concerns about AI's energy use have a lot of people looking into ways to cut down on its power requirements. Many of these focus on hardware and software approaches that are pretty straightforward ...
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...
Chrome for Android gets edge-to-edge UI update
Simply being on Chrome 135 is not necessarily enough to get the dynamic bottom bar. A separate server-side update is rolling out to enable edge-to-edge viewing—there's no way to force this update, but ...
Powerful programming: BBC-controlled electric meters are coming to an end
As of January 2025, roughly 600,000 UK customers still used RTS meters to manager their power switching, after 300,000 were switched away in 2024. Utilities and the BBC have agreed that the service ...
Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million ...
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