Any time an engine manufacturer spends over £1 billion to double or triple how long its powerplants can stay bolted to a wing, the commercial aviation world takes notice. For airlines operating the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Rolls-Royce promised that its latest Trent 1000 durability upgrades would allow aircraft to flyContinue Reading
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internetContinue Reading
Bill Ingalls/nasa/Getty Images SpaceX first reused a Falcon 9 booster in 2017, putting the spaceflight company on a path to cut the cost of space access to governments and organizations keen to deploy satellites in orbit. The process involves the 135-foot-tall first-stage booster performing an autonomous touchdown minutes after deploying its payload to orbit. TheContinue Reading
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Most people know MX Player as the app that finally played that one weird video file their phone refused to open. It has grown well past that. These days it also carries a library of free movies, web series and shows, which makes it interesting to anyone who follows entertainmentContinue Reading
Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety. Meanwhile, a new generation of children has begun engaging with an even more potent technology: artificial intelligence. While the efforts to make socialContinue Reading
Hylki is a Rust-based email client designed for the GNOME desktop with an incredibly amount of customisation packed in. Like Postcard , Convey and Letters, Hylki is part of the new(ish) Linux mail clients aiming to serve as a modern Geary-like alternative to more powerful email clients Thunderbird and Evolution.Continue Reading
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The globally recognized tech and engineering company has quietly shut down the OpenRadioss project at the start of this month, keeping the GitHub page around but completely removing the repository. I sound complainy because usually when an open project is discontinued, the maintainers put it into a read-only, public archiveContinue Reading
IONNA is an EV charging network operated by a joint venture of BMW, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Toyota. The venture has more than doubled the size of its network since the beginning of 2026, and now has more than 180 live charging sites in the US. InContinue Reading
Sponsored by Pickering Interfaces. Electronic Control Units (ECUs) now sit at the heart of nearly every vehicle system, from anti-lock braking to battery management. In EVs, these units govern functions where a single fault can compromise safety. That reality places a heavy burden on you as a test engineer: provingContinue Reading
Most organizations have been largely unable to measure financial returns from AI, but analysts say new ways to calculate return on investment are emerging. “There’s a delay between the development of technology, even the investment in the technology, and the value that an organization can capture from it,” said MichaelContinue Reading
Apple has been forced to make macOS even more locked down, to the dismay of some developers. It has announced plans to introduce more user-facing control over the process of giving apps Full Disk Access. Some developers are upset, believing this will put more barriers in place to those creating apps outsideContinue Reading