Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead
In his 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck wrote of loss, “It’s so much darker when a...
Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance’s Chinese apps
While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in...
Climate change sucks, but at least it won’t kill your EV battery
If you’ve spent more than five minutes driving an electric vehicle, chances are good you’re a convert. But most people...
Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad
Welcome to Edition 8.32 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is NASA’s shake-up of the Artemis program....
Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
If the only thing you had to go off was Apple’s string of product announcements this week, you’d have little...
Which of these two arcades is the “world largest”—and does it matter?
In New Hampshire, just off the western shore of the vacation destination Lake Winnipesaukee, there’s a town called Laconia. With...
Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
Based on over 20,000 reports, Amazon appears to be experiencing an outage. According to Downdetector, reports of problems started increasing...
Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that a large collection of tech companies had signed on to what it’s calling...
macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will “upgrade” your M5’s CPU to new “super” cores
As part of Apple’s flurry of Mac announcements earlier this week, the company announced the new M5 Pro and M5...
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 back in October, but the higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch Pros...