Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo has signed a new law requiring 15% state ownership in all mining ventures and local processing of minerals, tightening control over its resources as demand for battery materials grows. Mozambique is the world’s third-largest graphite producer, a key material used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage…Continue Reading
Proton has confirmed it is working on a Proton Drive client for Linux desktops. The announcement slipped out as part of a broader platform update. Proton has rebuilt Drive around a new shared SDK, with a single codebase powering its official apps on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and web (ratherContinue Reading
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Brave says its new “Origin” package delivers a premium web experience, but the one-time fee applies to all supported platforms except Linux. The San Francisco-based company developed Origin in response to user demand, pitching it as a fast, private browsing tool, and a new way to financially sustain the broader…ReadContinue Reading
Published Jun 7, 2026, 9:46 AM EDT Tony Phillips is an experienced Microsoft Office user with a dual-honors degree in Linguistics and Hispanic Studies. Prior to starting with How-to Geek in January 2024, he worked as a document producer, data manager, and content creator for over ten years, and loves making spreadsheets and documents in his spareContinue Reading
When imaged with cross-polarized light the angrite meteorite NWA 12774 shimmers like a rainbow kaleidoscope. A new study suggests that the space rock, first discovered in 2019, could be a fragment from a long-lost protoplanet from the early solar system. (Image credit: CU Boulder/John Kashuba) Quick facts What it is: NWA 12774, a 16-ounce (454Continue Reading
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment offering a theory about ICE’s addiction to masks: Let me suggest a different reason… Let’s say that all of those J6 dumbfucks who livestreamed their crimes, and who now have received pardons for acting like trailerContinue Reading
A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes encoder support, and an AMD VCN AV1 10-bit encoder compatible withContinue Reading
Mital Gandhi is trying to convince his neighbors to sell their homes to data center developers for $4.4 million., Mital Gandhi is trying to convince his neighbors to sell their homes to data center developers for $4.4 million., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away – well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, rounded glassy cards andContinue Reading
Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD is developing humanoid robots, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by Chinese media outlet Yicai on Wednesday. The report follows recent comments from BYD Executive Vice President Li Ke, who confirmed in an interview that the company is working on humanoid robotics…Continue Reading
The Boeing 747 is an icon of aviation, but it’s a five-decade-old airframe that seats just slightly more passengers than a Boeing 777-300ER while flying about as far, and doing so with four engines rather than two. It doesn’t offer airlines anything that can’t be done by a more fuel-efficientContinue Reading
The Lockheed F-117 Night Hawk is a later Cold War icon and is famous for being one of the most closely guarded black box projects. It was the first operational stealth, or more accurately, low-observable, combat aircraft. The F-117 was a harbinger of things to come.Continue Reading