Preview: The sequel’s prologue stresses meaningful choices, wry humor It has been nearly six years now since The Outer Worlds threw players into the deep end, forcing them to acclimate to the game’s far-future, ultra-corporate intergalactic dystopia amid lots of Fallout-style shooting and questing. The prologue for The Outer…
“I don’t want to gamble on which major city or two we lose in a scenario like that.” Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat in his 11th year on Capitol Hill, had some things to say when the House Armed Services Committee met last month to write President Trump’s…
ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed. OpenAI published a blog post on Tuesday titled “Helping people when they need it most” that addresses how its ChatGPT AI assistant handles mental health crises, following what the company calls “recent heartbreaking cases of people using ChatGPT…
Half of a year of data shows that the solar boom is not slowing down. On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Agency released its latest data on how the US generated electricity during the first six months of 2025. The data suggests the notable surge in power use is…
There are no major new consumer features. Enterprises get a few things though. The new version of Mac virtual machine software Parallels Desktop, which is most often used to run Windows applications on modern Macs, has just arrived. Parallels Desktop 26 has a lot to offer to the enterprise,…
“We wish we were young again and NASA was this vivacious, you know?” STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test flight on two previous launch…
Expect Apple’s next-gen iPhones, software release dates, and some other devices. Apple is hosting its next product event on Tuesday, September 9, at 10 am Pacific and 1 pm Eastern, the company announced today. Though Apple’s event announcements rarely indicate what the company plans to talk about, the company’s…
The soft top is cheaper and, oddly, more refined. In the golden days of the Internet, before dysfunctional social media, when forums ruled the roost and people formed communities, someone looking for car advice would invariably be told, more than once, “Just get a Miata.” For 35 years, the…
Older Ryzen 7040-based model will stick around at $1,299 as a lower-end option. It’s been a busy year for Framework, the company behind the now well-established series of repairable, upgradeable, modular laptops (and one paradoxically less-upgradeable desktop). The company has launched a version of the Framework Laptop 13 with…
Triple-fermented Belgian beers have the longest-lasting foam; single-fermented lagers have the shortest. For many beer lovers, a nice thick head of foam is one of life’s pure pleasures, and the longer that foam lasts, the better the beer-drinking experience. A team of Swiss researchers spent seven years studying why…
