A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off in the early hours of Tuesday morning carrying a crew that will attempt the first commercial spacewalk and travel higher than any crewed mission in 50 years. The Polaris Dawn mission lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:23 a.m. EST after several delays due to inclement weather. […]
Politics Read on TechCrunchThe sale of newly built homes is picking up thanks to falling interest rates and rising incomes.
Business Read on NL TimesIt’s hard to keep up with everything you come across on the web, such as an article you don’t have time to read at the moment or a video you’d like to run again later. Years ago, I started getting the better of this issue with Pocket, a well-known app that allows you to bookmark an article to a separate server and then retrieve it to read at your leisure. Since then, a number of similar services have appeared, offering a variety of features — and a variety of prices. What follows is a description of Pocket and some of the available apps. They all (with one exception) offer free versions and sync across a number of devices, including web browsers, Android devices, and iPhones.
Lifestyle Read on The Verge TechAmazon has announced a new pilot package delivery service in Frankfurt, Germany, that meshes electric road and rail transport. The e-commerce giant will use vans from its delivery depot to the first tram stop on the outskirts of Frankfurt, with the city’s new Gütertram service transporting the goods to awaiting cargo bikes. Gütertram constitutes part […]
Environment Read on TechCrunchSony just announced the $699.99 PS5 Pro, a beefed-up version of the PS5 that includes a larger GPU and advanced ray tracing support. But if you want to play your physical games on the new console, you’ll have to pay extra: a disc drive isn’t included, so you’ll have to buy and install one separately for an additional $79.99. “PS5 Pro is available as a disc-less console, with the option to purchase the currently available Disc Drive for PS5 separately,” Sony’s Hideaki Nishino writes in a PlayStation Blog post. That means if you are buying both the console and the disc drive together, you’ll be paying a whopping $779.98. While very annoying — it sure seems like an expensive “Pro” console should come with a disc drive! — this move from Sony...
Business Read on The Verge TechThe GMMK 3 and GMMK 3 Pro are easy to configure and customize, though you can quickly blow your budget.
Business Read on The Verge TechEurope is awash in cheap 9mm spitting carbines, and Americans can turn a handgun into a machine gun with a cheap piece of plastic.
Crime and Courts Read on GizmodoWix.com has announced it will stop providing services to Russian users on September 12, 2024, with all accounts from Russia, including free and premium, to be blocked and their websites taken down....
Business Read on Bleeping ComputerWix.com has announced it will stop providing services to Russian users on September 12, 2024, with all accounts from Russia, including free and premium, to be blocked and their websites taken down....
Business Read on Bleeping ComputerThe PlayStation 5 Pro looks a hell of a lot like the regular PlayStation 5 slim, but it now supports more GPU processing and its own AI upscaling.
Economy Read on GizmodoGet an exclusive look at editor turned director Michael Felker's feature debut, arriving this fall.
Entertainment Read on GizmodoThe cool racing stripe means it's faster. .
Business Read on Ars TechnicaThe public transport strike in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague is over, and the city transport companies are getting the metros, buses, and trams up and running.
Economy Read on NL TimesApple’s relationship with Google as its search partner is taking a new turn with Apple’s introduction of visual search, or “Visual Intelligence,” as the iPhone maker dubbed it Monday during the company’s “It’s Glowtime” event. Already, Alphabet pays Apple roughly $20 billion per year to make Google the default search engine in its Safari browser. […]
Business Read on TechCrunchApple’s relationship with Google as its search partner is taking a new turn with Apple’s introduction of visual search, or “Visual Intelligence” as the iPhone maker dubbed it yesterday during its iPhone 16 event. Already, Apple pays Alphabet roughly $20 billion per year to make Google the default search engine in its Safari browser. Now, […]
Business Read on TechCrunchThe PS5 Pro is official. After months of leaks, Sony just announced a more powerful PS5 console during a special technical presentation. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console, says the PS5 Pro improves on the original console in three key ways: a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and custom AI-driven upscaling. The PS5 Pro will launch on November 7th, priced at $699.99, and it looks similar to the slim version of the PS5 — just like recent leaks suggested it would. It has three stripes down the side, and it doesn’t come with a disc drive. You’ll be able to purchase a 4K Blu-ray disc drive separately and optional console covers. “It’s the most powerful console we’ve ever built,” says Cerny. The hardware upgrades inside will...
Business Read on The Verge TechWhere are the gentle creatures and native plants you first saw when you landed? More importantly, could this conveyer belt run on a shorter path? I had fallen. I got a warning that I had been playing for two hours straight. While FICSIT approved of hard work, it was important to have some work-life balance, it suggested. Friends of mine had told me that they had to stop playing Factorio when it began to feel like an unpaid part-time job. Given a chance to check out Satisfactory, I presumed, like I always do, That Could Never Be Me. Folks, it was definitely me. I'm having a hard time writing this post, not because it's hard to describe or recommend Satisfactory. I just stayed up very late "reviewing" it, woke up thinking about it, and am wondering whether enough friends would want to join me that I should set up a private server.
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