Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders to “assess” Trump tariff effects
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders, which were due to begin on April 9, are being delayed indefinitely amid the financial ...
Federal funding freeze endangers climate-friendly agriculture progress
The administration has frozen billions of dollars in funding that pay for these activities while the U.S. Department of ...
SpinLaunch—yes, the centrifuge rocket company—is making a hard pivot to satellites
"It was quite natural for us," Wrenn said. "We were thinking about how you build satellites for SpinLaunch and how you could ...
Are new Google E2EE emails really end-to-end encrypted? Kinda, but not really.
When Google uses the term E2EE in this context, it means that an email is encrypted inside Chrome, Firefox, or just about any ...
Hands-on with the Switch 2: It’s the Switch, too
The Nintendo Switch 2 could be considered the most direct "sequel" to a Nintendo console that the company has ever made. The ...
Nvidia confirms the Switch 2 supports DLSS, G-Sync, and ray tracing
The other major Nvidia technology supported by the new Switch is G-Sync, which prevents screen tearing when games are running ...
Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
The US had the largest gap in survival between the poorest and wealthiest quartiles compared to European countries. America's ...
DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world
This work has identified four possible types of AGI risk, along with suggestions on how we might ameliorate said risks. The ...
Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...
Explaining MicroSD Express cards and why you should care about them
But most commodity microSD cards, including pricier models like Samsung's Pro Ultimate series, use UHS-I, which has a maximum ...
SpaceX just took a big step toward reusing Starship’s Super Heavy booster
SpaceX has now launched eight full-scale test flights of Starship, with a Super Heavy booster and Starship's upper stage stacked together to form a rocket that towers 404 feet (123.1 meters) tall. The ...
Rocket Report: Next Starship flight to reuse booster; FAA clears New Glenn
The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket didn't last long on Sunday, Ars reports. The booster's nine engines switched off as the rocket cartwheeled upside-down and fell a short distance ...