“We’re excited that Northrop is ready to deliver this incredibly beneficial increase in capacity.” What happens when you use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship? A record-setting resupply mission to the International Space Station. The first flight of Northrop’s upgraded Cygnus spacecraft, called…
Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes. The last time Apple gave macOS a fresh design was in 2020’s macOS 11 Big Sur. That release was relatively light on new features and heavy on symbolism. Big Sur is also when Apple finally jettisoned the…
NatGeo’s new documentary series, Top Guns: The Next Generation, shows the sweat behind the spectacle. The blockbuster success of the 1986 film Top Gun—chronicling the paths of young naval aviators as they go through the grueling US Navy’s Fighter Weapons School (aka the titular Top Gun)—spawned more than just…
There will be temporary layoffs at a factory in Missouri from September 29–October 19. General Motors will temporarily lay off workers at its Wentzville assembly plant in Missouri. According to a letter sent to employees by the head of the plant and the head of the local union, a…
Push to revive nuclear energy relies on deregulation; experts say strategy is misplaced. In May, President Donald Trump signed four executive orders to facilitate the construction of nuclear reactors and the development of nuclear energy technology; the orders aim to cut red tape, ease approval processes, and reshape the…
“When you turn off those spacecraft’s radio receivers, there’s no way to turn them back on.” Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth’s climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year’s budget expires at the end of…
Unofficial mod lets classic Nintendo GameCube title use AI chatbots with amusing results. When software engineer Joshua Fonseca recently connected the GameCube simulation classic Animal Crossing to a modern AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT, he decided to shake things up. By programming the AI to…
Meanwhile, Congress is trying to keep serious scientists from weighing in. While the Trump administration has continued to refer to efforts to avoid the worst impacts of climate change as a scam, it has done almost nothing to counter the copious scientific evidence that demonstrates that climate change is…
North America has bought 1.3 million EVs this year; China has bought 7.6 million. Here’s some good news for a Friday afternoon: For 2025 through August, global electric vehicle sales have grown by 25 percent compared to the same eight months in 2024, according to the analysts at Rho…
A $100 replica Switch dock or $25 cardboard sleeve is needed to play the 3D re-releases. Even as Nintendo has endlessly mined its classic consoles for nostalgic re-releases in recent decades, the company has seemed to completely ignore the existence of the Virtual Boy—its abortive 1990s dip into the world…
