I spent a morning with Meta VR Glasses and wish I never had to take them off
Experience counts for something, and nowhere is that more evident than on the Meta VR Glasses I finally wore this morning. These lightweight, intuitive, and engrossing VR glasses shed the weight and overdesigned fussiness of previous VR and mixed reality…
Nintendo’s biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business
For years, the AI industry’s insatiable demand for memory and storage has had plenty of knock-on effects on the price and availability of PC components like RAM, SSDs, and GPUs. Now those shortages are also squeezing the supply of ROM chips that…
A NASA space telescope plunged back to Earth after a mission that lasted 11 times longer than planned
The Swift Observatory’s demise came less than three months after a long-shot rescue mission failed. Go to story
The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space
After Democrats won big in Texas and other AI infrastructure hot spots on Tuesday, data center enthusiasts looked for comfort in low-Earth orbit.Go to story
Elon Musk jokes that his ‘election interference’ space lasers didn’t work for the midterms
Elon Musk jokes that his ‘election interference’ space lasers didn’t work for the midterms Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk joked Wednesday that his space lasers didn’t work for the GOP as the Democrats swept the midterms. Go to…
After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?
Following his public disputes with California authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, Elon Musk personally moved to Texas, outside of Austin, in 2020. Over the next six years, he doubled down on the Lone Star State. In 2021, Musk increasingly focused…
Leak TruStream review: a gifted network audio player that just lacks a bit of dynamic headroom
Leak TruStream: Two-minute review Leak has been doing very nicely as its own tribute act lately, and the latest product to get the ‘walnut and aluminium’ mid-20th century modern retro treatment is a network streamer called TruStream. But…
NASA’s Swift telescope will face a fiery demise after a failed rescue
Designed to study the powerful outbursts, the Swift Observatory quickly contributed to a wide range of discoveries. Now, it’s about to meet a fiery fate.Go to story
This space company is betting its future on a propellant available everywhere
Robert, Ryan, and Kirby Carlisle are three engineers who worked at SpaceX during the Falcon 9 era, seeing the revolution in the global launch industry from the inside. The brothers launched rockets, refurbished rockets, and sold rockets. But when it came…
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is careening back toward Earth | Here’s what to know
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to meet a fiery end early Wednesday, nearly 22 years after it launched to space Go to story