It took longer than NASA might have hoped to get off the ground, but the Artemis 1 mission was a textbook demonstration of what Orion and the Space Launch System can do. NASA’s megarocket hoisted the spacecraft into orbit last month, sending it on a 25-day journey around the moon and back, setting records along
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Atlanta-based MessageGears, a customer engagement service rivaling MoEngage, raised $62M led by Long Ridge Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $80M+ — Dan Roy, a former software engineer at Delta, says he witnessed firsthand the challenges companies face when making the shift …
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday, December 14 at noon Pacific for the Battery Engineering Hack Chat with Dave Sopchak! Of all the things driving technology forward, you’d have to say that the ability of chip makers to squeeze more complex circuits than ever onto silicon has to rank right up there. And while that’s no doubt
Read MoreBuying a video card over the last few years has been an exercise in frustration, but in 2022, your cup runneth over with choices. Nvidia launched its new and very expensive RTX 40 Series this fall, and now we have AMD’s answer in the form of the Radeon RX 7000 Series. There are two video
Read MoreEthan, Meridian, and Searcher Clade in a spaceship. | Image: Disney Though Disney’s Strange World animated feature from director Don Hall only hit theaters on Thanksgiving, the studio’s already getting ready to debut the movie on Disney Plus for reasons that might have something to do with its terrible box office returns. Today, Disney announced
Read Morebluebay2014/iStock/Getty Images (Credit: bluebay2014/iStock/Getty Images)The US Department of Energy is expected to announce a major scientific breakthrough on Tuesday amid rumors of groundbreaking nuclear fusion research. A lab in Livermore, California has reportedly produced a nuclear fusion reaction that could bring the world closer to zero-carbon energy. An anonymous source familiar with the National Ignition
Read MoreU.S. House Committee on Financial Services: FTX CEO’s testimony to the US House: FTX.com and Alameda assets were commingled, insiders were paid $1B+, FTX US was not run independently of FTX.com, and more — Chairwoman Waters, Ranking Member McHenry, distinguished members of the Committee: thank you for the invitation to appear before you today.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google’s plan to phase out Manifest V2 has been postponed. The delay is due in part to developer community outcry. The delay will allow ad block extensions to continue working for a bit longer. After Google announced a collection of changes — known as Manifest V3 — coming to
Read More(Photo: Tai’s Captures)As the Polaroid camera and vinyl records did before it, the manual transmission is making a comeback. Largely thought to be clunky, outdated, and inconvenient (especially in ever-expanding urban areas), the stick shift is finding its way into an unlikely place: electric vehicles. Lexus, Toyota’s luxury auto brand, is working on making a
Read MoreThe Witcher 3 running on the PS5. | Image: CD Projekt Red The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has always been a beautiful game. One of my favorite things to do when I played for the first time in 2015 was just wander around on horseback soaking in the incredible atmosphere, from the crumbling ancient ruins
Read MorePhoto by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Yes, it was too expensive. Yes, it looked dated and clunky. Yes, there were weird things going on with the hinge. But the world needed it. Please, Microsoft, bring back the Surface Book. I’ve been using a Surface Book 2 as my primary personal laptop since 2018. When
Read MoreSurveillance has become a ubiquitous part of modern life. Public spaces are dotted with CCTV cameras inside and out. Recent years have seen the technology spread to the suburbs with porch cameras spreading the eye of big tech and law enforcement ever further. Outside of mere cameras, companies are rushing to develop all manner of
Read MoreSiriusXM The hit comedy podcast How Did This Get Made? is sticking with Earwolf. Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas, who host the show about terrible movies, have signed a multiyear deal to remain with the SiriusXM-owned podcast studio. SiriusXM spokesperson Ron Gaskill said the deal will keep most of the show’s archive
Read MoreIllustration by Jarett Sitter / The Verge It’s here: the final episode of The Vergecast’s three-part Creator Economies series. We’ve explored emerging elements of the business of being a creator. We dug deep into creator funds and how giant pools of platform money change the way those platforms operate. We dove headlong into the animated
Read MoreImage: Mercedes-Benz / Rivian Rivian and Mercedes-Benz halted plans to co-develop multiple new electric delivery vans based on both companies’ commercial EV platforms. Rivian put the agreement on pause reportedly because it was concerned about spending a lot of money on an expensive new vehicle development project amid a slowing economy. “At this point in
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk took a brief break from running multiple companies mired in drama to create a little more drama by appearing onstage with Dave Chappelle during his show Sunday night at the Chase Center in San Francisco. During Chappelle’s set, the controversial comedian introduced the controversial billionaire, who
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s shuttering its Connectivity arm almost 10 years after launching the initiative, according to a report from Light Reading. The company confirmed to both Light Reading and Fierce Wireless that it will instead split the division across its Infrastructure and Central Products teams. Meta Connectivity (formerly Facebook Connectivity) launched in
Read MoreIt’s the holiday season, and what better way to celebrate than to carve out some generative snowflakes on your laser cutter? [Bleeptrack] has developed a web-based tool that creates generative snowflake ornaments which can be exported to SVG files ready-made for laser or vinyl cutting. True to their namesake, each generated snowflake ornament is (very
Read MoreA DALL-E depiction of “a dream that is fun to experience but boring to tell other people about.” | Image: DALL-E If you’ve been on Twitter (or Discord or plenty of other places) this month and your feed is anything like mine, it’s currently full of weird machine-generated text and art. The launch of ChatGPT,
Read MoreIn today’s all conducive and comprehensive world, brands and entrepreneurs are brainstorming and strategizing the optimum way to market their products. We live in an era where everything is available in an instant. The availability of information in a split second and access to multiple alternatives to the same commodity has fostered fierce competition. Achieving
Read MoreMrBeast in Fortnite. | Image: Epic Games MrBeast, who recently became the most-subscribed-to creator on YouTube, is the next person to join Fortnite’s Icon Series. The creator made a brief appearance in a trailer for Fortnite’s newest season, and Epic Games is now confirming that not only will MrBeast be getting his own Fortnite skins,
Read MoreThe high-powered Nova Laser before it creates nuclear fusion inside its target chamber at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1986. | Photo by Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images A “scientific breakthrough” in the development of fusion energy is expected tomorrow from the Biden administration. For more than half a century, people have poured billions
Read MoreThe second-gen AirPods Pro look just like the originals, but there are improvements within. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The second-generation AirPods Pro earbuds have returned to their lowest price, first seen during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. You can get the latest top-tier wireless earbuds from Apple on sale for $199.99
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority We’re primarily a smartphone-focused website here at Android Authority, but wearables are a pretty important category for us as well. As a result, we review loads of fitness trackers and smartwatches every year from a variety of brands. It’s one thing to review a wearable but another matter entirely
Read MoreWhen NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean yesterday afternoon, it marked the end of a journey that started decades ago. The origins of the Orion capsule can be tracked back to a Lockheed Martin proposal from the early 2000s, and development of the towering Space Launch System rocket that sent it on
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