Browsing: Gadgets

GTA VI preorders opened this week at $80, above current AAA standards. The physical edition ships without a disc — only a download code inside the box.

SpaceX tests Starfall, a saucer-shaped reentry pod built to deliver cargo anywhere on Earth from low-Earth orbit via Falcon 9.

The UK plans to use AI facial age estimation on asylum seekers despite its own internal tests showing the tech misclassifies children and contains demographic bias.

NASA gave Katalyst Space Technologies $30M and ten months to build a satellite rescue vehicle for the $500M Swift telescope before it falls from orbit.

xAI operates 57 unpermitted gas turbines in Mississippi. The NAACP sued. The Trump administration responded by calling Grok a military necessity.

A scholar argues Eilmer of Malmesbury may have seen a 1018 comet, not Halley’s 989 pass, reshaping when the monk’s famous flight occurred.

Anthropic shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Friday after a US Commerce Department directive citing a jailbreak bypassing safeguards in cybersecurity, chemistry, and biology.

The ADA apologized Wednesday after ejecting five diabetes researchers for distributing a critical editorial already published in the group’s own journal.

The FCC waived Amazon Leo’s July 2026 50% satellite launch milestone, keeping the full 2029 deadline intact. Amazon had 1,616 spacecraft to launch by month’s end.

Five scientists, including the editor of Diabetes Care, were ejected from the ADA’s annual meeting in New Orleans for handing out a published editorial critical of federal research policy.