The Airbus A380 is the world’s largest airliner, and although it was a commercial failure, it was used by several flag carriers, including Air France. Air France had a total of ten A380s, first delivered in 2009, and with Paris being one of the world’s largest business hubs and oneContinue Reading
KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only, shipping without a desktop session to run the popular Qt-based desktop on top of the legacy X display server. As with GNOME (who ripped the bandaid off in GNOME 49), this change does not mean X11 applications will no longer work in KDE PlasmaContinue Reading
A solar prominence hangs near the edge of the sun. (Image credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ; Music: Atmos by Oliver Spencer) The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission recently captured a dramatic solar prominence rising from the edge of the sun, a rare and captivating sightContinue Reading
A new animation shows the gradual disintegration of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), which began to break apart on Nov. 13. (Image credit: Michael Jäger) In space, death can be a beautiful thing. That’s certainly the case for the recently deceased “other” comet ATLAS, which is slowly breaking apart after meeting its explosive end earlier thisContinue Reading
Collabora Productivity is well-known for two of its flagship offerings, Collabora Online, their web-based document editor that powers many organizations, and their LibreOffice-based enterprise suite. That second one just got a makeover and the existing offering was moved to a new name. They announced Collabora Office for desktop today. ItContinue Reading
One of the greatest things about open-source software is that anyone can pick up where a project left off and bring it back to life, whether it’s to continue a legacy, or a spiritual successor that builds on a new foundation. In this article, I’ll share some of the popularContinue Reading
Japanese automaker Honda has showcased its first electric motorcycle, the WN7. The motorcycle is built around a 9.3 kWh lithium-ion battery and 18 kW motor. It offers a driving range of around 140 km, and supports CCS2 DC fast charging. The WN7 features full LED lighting with a unique DRLContinue Reading
Canadian mining and battery technology developer Focus Graphite Advanced Materials has announced that its Lac Knife graphite anode material has passed Phase I battery validation testing, conducted by Charge CCCV (C4V) and American Energy Technologies. The concurrent US laboratory test programs confirmed that natural graphite from the company’s Lac KnifeContinue Reading
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said young children will be banned from social media next month as scheduled despite a rights advocacy group on Wednesday challenging the world-first legislation in court. The Sydney-based Digital Freedom Project said it had filed a constitutional challenge in the High Court onContinue Reading
NORTH SEA, Denmark (AP) — Appearing first as a dot on the horizon, the remote Nini oil field on Europe’s rugged North Sea slowly comes into view from a helicopter. Used to extract fossil fuels, the field is now getting a second lease on life as a means of permanentlyContinue Reading
Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D’s tech shop through AI-induced memory maze Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Warns memory price explosion means PCs may have less RAM, or use low-cost parts HP Inc will sack between 4,000 and 6,000 workers under a plan that calls for the PCs-and-printers prodigy to use AI to improve its operations.…, Read MoreContinue Reading