Eric Berger 2021-10-22 07:00:51 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The Orion spacecraft is stacked atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket. Welcome to Edition 4.21 of the Rocket Report! Plenty of news this week across the realm of rockets, from a near-success…
Andrew Cunningham 2021-10-22 10:07:11 arstechnica.com Aurich Lawson Microsoft and AMD have both released patches to fix the AMD Ryzen performance bugs present in the initial versions of Windows 11, according to an AMD knowledgebase article that was updated late…
Eric Bangeman 2021-10-22 10:27:27 arstechnica.com Enlarge / People in Chile with Worldcoin's "Orb" iris scanner.Worldcoin More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, as a project to distribute digital money more…
Eric Berger 2021-10-22 11:28:54 arstechnica.com Enlarge / SpaceX ignites a vacuum-optimized Raptor engine attached to Starship on Thursday, October 21.SpaceX SpaceX took another step on Thursday evening toward validating the rocket engine technology that will power its Starship rocket.…
Sam Machkovech 2021-10-22 14:04:39 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Aw, blank, here we go again.Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy: The Definitive Experience may go down as 2021's worst-kept secret, but how it would actually look remained surprisingly well-protected until the…
John Timmer 2021-10-22 16:56:19 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The telescope array of the Next Generation Transit Survey. If you've ever wanted to search for distant worlds, your time has come. The team behind a planet-hunting telescope array called the Next-Generation…
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2021-10-22 14:53:19 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Bernd Mayländer stands next to the Formula 1 safety car, a Mercedes-AMG GT R. The station wagon in the background is the F1 medical car.Mercedes-AMG Despite having followed Formula 1 closely…
Ron Amadeo 2021-10-21 13:05:36 arstechnica.com Quick Google Stadia recap: Things have not been great. Google's AAA cloud gaming service launched in 2019 to middling reviews and since then has severely undershot Google's sales and usage estimates by hundreds of thousands of…
Andrew Cunningham 2021-10-21 14:11:09 arstechnica.com Microsoft Windows 11 is out, but Microsoft isn't leaving Windows 10 behind just yet. The November Update for Windows 10 (also known as version 21H2) has rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Release…
Scharon Harding 2021-10-21 14:00:12 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Wireless Razer Kraken V3 Pro.Razer There are many different ways to evoke a feeling of immersion with your video game setup. Your choice in monitor shape and size can make virtual worlds…
Kiona N. Smith 2021-10-20 13:00:16 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Aerial image of L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada.Glenn Nagel Photography Centuries before Christopher Columbus stumbled across the Bahamas, the Vikings established a beachhead at L’Anse Aux Meadows, a site on the…
Andrew Cunningham 2021-10-20 13:18:55 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Android apps listed in the Microsoft Store.Microsoft Windows 11 shipped without the promised support for Android apps from the Amazon App Store, but Microsoft has announced the first preview of the feature…
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2021-10-20 10:00:25 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Everyone loves a good time machine, including Porsche. The company made a short video to celebrate reaching a charging capacity milestone in the US and Europe.Porsche Many of the electric vehicles…
Ron Amadeo 2021-10-19 13:00:48 arstechnica.com The Pixel 6 is finally official, with Google taking the wraps off the phone during a livestreamed event on Tuesday. We have so much to talk about. SPECS AT A GLANCE Pixel 6 Pixel…
Andrew Cunningham 2021-10-19 14:45:19 arstechnica.com Enlarge / If you wanted to polish your Apple products, bad news: you'll need to wait at least a month to get Apple's Polishing Cloth. Apple Between ongoing supply chain issues, chip shortages, and…
Samuel Axon 2021-10-19 15:14:40 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Farthest right: The HDMI port on the MacBook Pro.Lee Hutchinson The newly announced 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models have HDMI ports, but they have a limitation that could be frustrating for…
Eric Berger 2021-10-19 18:11:49 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The Boeing Starliner spacecraft to be flown on Orbital Flight Test-2 is seen at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 2, 2021.NASA NASA and Boeing officials said Tuesday that they…
Eric Berger 2021-10-18 10:17:25 arstechnica.com Enlarge / One of the Lucy spacecraft's solar arrays, with a human for scale.NASA NASA's Lucy spacecraft launched safely into space early on Saturday morning from Florida, but after the deployment of its two…
Samuel Axon 2021-10-18 13:33:42 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The new MacBook Pro.Apple Nearly a year after announcing the first low-end M1 Macs last November, Apple has finally unveiled an update for its higher-end laptops. New 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro…
Andrew Cunningham 2021-10-18 15:49:57 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Apple's new MacBook Pros (and the 13-inch M1 model that's still hanging around). The new Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pros are here, and Apple's presentation on the M1 Pro and M1 Max made…
Scharon Harding 2021-10-18 17:38:26 arstechnica.com Enlarge / No larger M1-powered iMac yet. Apple held its fall event was today, and the stars of the show were the M1 Pro and M1 Max announced for the new MacBook Pros. We…
Andrew Cunningham 2021-10-18 14:01:02 arstechnica.com Apple Apple will release macOS Monterey, the next major version of its Mac operating system, on October 25, the company announced today. The new software will also ship on the new 14- and 16-inch…
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2021-10-18 10:29:51 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Toyota's current lineup of electrified vehicles will be joined by a battery-electric crossover in 2022.Toyota In 2025, Toyota will open a new North American battery manufacturing plant as part of the…
Scharon Harding 2021-10-15 13:07:37 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Samsung Galaxy Chromebook.Samsung Chromebooks, which are powered by Chrome OS, are generally viewed as a simpler alternative to Windows and macOS systems. But as more Chromebooks flirt with four-figure price tags—take, for…
Jon Brodkin 2021-10-15 14:25:03 arstechnica.com A Colorado judge on Wednesday barred Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from supervising elections due to the leak of voting-system BIOS passwords to QAnon conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold…
Andrew Cunningham 2021-10-15 15:20:31 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11.Microsoft Now that Windows 11 is out, the arduous process of fixing the new operating system's bugs can begin. The OS got its first Patch Tuesday update earlier…
Ron Amadeo 2021-10-15 16:23:35 arstechnica.com Enlarge / See that spinny thing at the bottom of the page? It's going to load more search results any second now...Google Google is rolling out a big update to mobile search today: continuous…
Andrew Cunningham 2021-10-14 11:51:50 arstechnica.com Enlarge / An old PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Microsoft Word 2008, and the TenFourFox browser.Andrew Cunningham It has been well over a decade since PowerPC Macs roamed the earth—so long…
John Timmer 2021-10-14 13:41:19 arstechnica.com Enlarge / An offshore wind farm under construction. Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden announced a major effort to jump-start the offshore wind industry in the US, with the stated goal of going…
Jennifer Ouellette 2021-10-14 17:49:52 arstechnica.com Harvard researchers have developed a data-storage approach based on mixtures of fluorescent dyes that are printed onto an epoxy surface in tiny spots. The mixture of dyes at each spot encodes information that is…
Steve Haske 2021-10-14 14:14:59 arstechnica.com Call of Duty's comprehensive new anti-cheat system includes a potential olive branch for security-conscious players: It can't access your PC's private files—or so publisher Activision claims. Announced Wednesday via the Call of Duty blog,…
Scharon Harding 2021-10-14 12:41:33 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin in midnight gray. England-based audio brand Bowers & Wilkins is offering audiophiles another ride on its Zeppelin, but this time, there's a new friend on board. The Zeppelin speaker…
Ax Sharma 2021-10-14 08:40:05 arstechnica.com Numerous Visible Wireless subscribers are reporting that their accounts were "hacked" this week. Visible runs on Verizon's 5G and 4G LTE networks and is owned by Verizon; it is not a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).…