A heatwave, engine upgrades, plus power levels for the next two seasons. Formula 1 raced at the Red Bull Ring in Austria this past weekend while the region sweltered under a heat dome. It was a weekend of unmet expectations: After such a strong performance in Barcelona, pundits were…
“Where does the threshold live that an action necessitates some proportional reaction?” Imagine this: The US military begins tracking a mysterious spacecraft maneuvering near one of the Space Force’s missile-warning satellites more than 22,000 miles over the equator. This US satellite cost several billion dollars to build and launch.…
NASA’s quiet supersonic flight tests could eventually go on a national tour. More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent to a car door slamming…
Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. “Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.” German physicist Max Planck was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, earning the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of quanta. There has never been a…
The Amble One is a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy designed for luxury resorts. It seems to be the week for cheap EVs. Right after the production model of the Slate electric truck was revealed, complete with a bump in range, a new European entrant in electric mobility is launching…
Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming. On July 1, it will be illegal for streaming platforms to play ads louder than the content being watched in California. As The Hollywood Reporter highlighted this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill…
Russian government lashes out at Apple’s “bizarre” decisions. According to Apple’s 2025 App Store Transparency Report, Russia is the runaway world leader in one category: Demanding that Apple remove apps from its App Store. In 2025, Russia asked that Apple remove 1,213 apps—many of these VPN apps were designed…
Update began June 15 and will no longer allow you to share your login info. Recently, my father called me in a panic. There were just a few minutes until Netflix would start streaming a live MMA event, and he couldn’t get into my account. For a while, he…
It’s “an exciting advance in efforts to restock the antibiotic arsenal.” Antibiotic resistance has loomed over humans since the moment we started using antibiotics. In the 20th century, the drugs downgraded potentially life-threatening bacterial infections to mere inconveniences—a miracle of modern medicine, it seemed. But the drugs aren’t really…
With falling sales in the US and especially China, VW Group wants to restructure. Volkswagen Group is considering what was previously unthinkable: closing up to four factories in Germany and instituting layoffs that would shrink the workforce by 15 percent. 2025 was a bad year for Europe’s largest automaker.…
