Author: Marcus Chen
Marcus Chen
Marcus has spent ten years reviewing gadgets and still believes the best technology is the kind you stop noticing.
Trump signed a space transportation policy targeting 1,000 launches yearly by 2030, replacing a 2013 Obama directive. New spaceports on federal land are central to the plan.
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned their robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray observatory after attitude control failures grounded the Link satellite.
Tomb 209 in Thebes, built for a Nubian official in 754 BCE, tracked 700 years of Egyptian burial shifts using layered skeletal and stratigraphic data.
Copernicus Browser added a wildfire visualization layer on August 4, letting anyone read Sentinel-2 satellite imagery with no technical setup required.
Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link satellite is tumbling 200 miles up with two failed reaction wheels. Engineers are scrambling to save the $30M spacecraft.
A wildfire near Madrid forced evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network station in Spain, suspending contact with 40+ missions including Voyager and Webb.
A Bucks County deputy covered his bodycam before allegedly photographing a naked detainee with his iPhone. Other cameras caught him anyway.
ESET found 11 unrevoked Microsoft-signed firmware images, one from 2013, that let novice attackers bypass Secure Boot on Windows and Linux.
New climate evidence may explain why Polynesian voyagers suddenly sailed east after 1,700 years — the same mystery at the heart of Disney’s Moana films.
Google found a way to recalibrate quantum processors continuously using error-correction data, solving drift in superconducting qubits without halting computation.