make-gnome-app-grid-scroll-vertically-(like-it-used-to)

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A new GNOME Shell extension rethinks the app grid (aka the app picker, app drawer, launcher screen – what do you call it?) by making it scroll vertically instead of horizontally. Y’know, the way it used to, pre-GNOME 40. GNOME 40’s switch to horizontal app grid scrolling in 2021 irkedContinue Reading

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Last week, Marco Rubio and the State Department revoked visas for five Europeans—including Imran Ahmed, a legal permanent resident in the US married to a US citizen—because they don’t like their speech about disinformation. The State Department’s justification? This form of speech suppression is necessary to protect free speech. ThisContinue Reading

Iran says it launched 3 satellites to space on Russian rocket: report

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A Russian Soyuz rocket launched three satellites for Iran into orbit, alongside two Russian satellites and 47 other cubesats from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia on Dec. 28, 2025. (Image credit: Roscosmos) Iran has launched a trio of new satellites into space with the help of a Russian rocket, the country’s state media reported SundayContinue Reading

12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025

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Starship debris from SpaceX’s IFT-7 test mission falls through the sky on Jan. 16, 2025. (Image credit: Dean Olson via Twitter) 2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse. We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year, including the first-ever fully successful private moon landingContinue Reading

LG Energy Solution To Sell Ohio Battery  Facility To Honda For $2.85 Billion

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South Korea’s LG Energy Solution has agreed to sell the building and fixed-asset components of its Ohio electric vehicle battery plant to Honda Development and Manufacturing of America for ?4.22 trillion ($2.85 billion), according to company disclosures cited by Yahoo Finance. The facility is part of the $4.4 billion battery manufacturing joint venture between LGContinue Reading