This photo depicts the satellite-filled sky that is now a reality and getting more crowded every week. The image consists of exposures taken over a 30-minute stretch in June 2024 from a latitude of 51 degrees north, when satellites even in low Earth orbit are lit all night by sunlight. Many of the parallel streaksContinue Reading
Imagine waking up, groggy and bearded, on a space ship light-years from Earth. That’s how Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, awakens in the new space drama Project Hail Mary. As the audience soon learns, Grace, a middle school science teacher, was apparently sent on a mission to save the sun from dying. The movieContinue Reading
The global DC fast charging power module market is experiencing rapid growth, driven primarily by the accelerating adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and the expansion of charging infrastructure worldwide. In 2024, the market was valued at USD 2.48 billion and is projected to reach USD 8.32 billion by 2035…Continue Reading
In most weeks of the year, at least one US airline begins or resumes a route. Between March 17 and 21, Alaska Airlines and United Airlines introduced seven of them—and one of them has never had nonstop flights by any passenger operator.Continue Reading
LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is back in the headlines for the worst possible reason. Overnight, an Air Canada Express CRJ-900 collided with a Port Authority fire truck while landing at the New York airport, killing both pilots and injuring dozens of others. Reuters has reported 41 injuries so far, including passengers,Continue Reading
More cores, higher clocks, and lower prices? What’s not to like? Review It’s a tough time to be a PC enthusiast. Between the memory crunch and the AI boom driving up prices on storage, DDR5, and GPUs, it’s gotten prohibitively expensive to build a PC.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
The era of reliability begins… right after this out-of-band patch Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future…Continue Reading
Last June, the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court upheld a lower court’s ruling declaring a Louisiana law mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools to be a violation of the Constitution. This decision made immediate sense, given that courts elsewhere in the nation (including the US Supreme Court)Continue Reading
Systemd powers most modern Linux distributions, and with it comes a family of powerful ctl commands like systemctl . These tools help you manage services, inspect logs, control system time, and dig deep into how your Linux system behaves under the hood. But how well do you really know them?Continue Reading
The redesigned folder icons for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS have been redesigned again, albeit slightly. A big Yaru theme update hit Ubuntu 26.04 LTS last week, delivering a set of colourful new directory icons to development desktops (alongside other theme changes, like consistent radii and bolder text in UI elements andContinue Reading
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After one too many of you threatened to switch to Linux, Microsoft has published a long list of changes it plans to make to Windows 11. In a lengthy blog titled “Our commitment to Windows quality,” Pavan Davuluri, the executive vice president of Windows and Devices…Read MoreContinue Reading