This was the first successful flight of SpaceX’s second-generation Starship after three failures. STARBASE, Texas—SpaceX launched the 10th test flight of the company’s Starship rocket Tuesday evening, sending the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world to an on-target splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The largely successful mission for…
Collapsing gas clouds in the early universe may have formed lower-mass stars as well. For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of stars to form the…
Corsair’s Xeneon Edge is the best at what it does but is software-dependent. Finding a cheap secondary PC monitor is pretty easy. But if you want one that looks good, is built well, and is easily customizable, you won’t find those qualities in a budget screen from a no-name…
Specs mean nothing if you get the feel and execution wrong. Manual transmissions have gone the way of the dodo, but you can still find a few out there. Bless Volkswagen for keeping the helical gears turning, both literally and figuratively. The 2025 Jetta GLI, Volkswagen’s sporty sedan, still…
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky” Marine biologist and conservationist David Shiffman was an early power user and evangelist for science engagement on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Over the years, he trained more…
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,…
