GNOME 49 lands next week, bringing a fresh set of features and design tweaks aimed at making everyday desktop life on Linux smoother, sharper, and more consistent — the best of which I run through in this post. Ubuntu users get (most of) GNOME 49’s new features in the upcomingContinue Reading
SpaceX continued its busy 2025 tonight (Sept. 11), sending a satellite high above Earth for an Indonesian telecom company. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Nusantara Lima satellite lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 9:56 p.m. EDT (0156 GMT on Sept. 12), after being grounded for three days by badContinue Reading
Main” An illustration of a supermassive black hole-powered quasar shrouded by dust. Inset left: An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. Inset right: An image of the Subaru Telescope. (Image credit: NASA/Denys/ Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers haveContinue Reading
Rimac Technology has unveiled a new battery pack platform for electric vehicles that uses only solid-state batteries. The company has been an EV supplier for notable car brands including Aston Martin and Koenigsegg, as well as making electric supercar Nevara. Rimac collaborated with ProLogium and Mitsubishi Chemical Group on the product…Continue Reading
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators have accepted Microsoft’s proposed changes to Teams, resolving a long-running antitrust investigation that targeted the company’s messaging and videoconferencing app. The European Commission said in a statement Friday that Microsoft’s final commitments to unbundle Teams from its Office software suite, including further tweaks followingContinue Reading
The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat. “The cheating is offContinue Reading
The NEVI Formula Program, established as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, provided $5 billion in funding that states could use to build EV charging infrastructure if certain conditions were met. In February, the DOT suspended the program, and rescinded prior approval of states’ spending plans. In June, a federalContinue Reading
Israel-based Epsilor Electric Fuel, which produces smart lithium-ion batteries, chargers and mobile power management systems for defense, transportation and other applications, has developed its COMBATT 6T Li-Ion battery for military vehicles. The 25.2 V battery delivers 4,400 Wh and 174 Ah, demonstrating capacity that is six times higher than similarContinue Reading