Starlink is absolutely critical to Ukraine’s ability to continue in the fight against Russia. It’s how troops in battle zones stay connected with faraway HQs; it’s how many of the drones essential to Ukraine’s survival hit their targets; it’s even how…
Instagram adds Spotify integration to Stories and Notes
Spotify and Instagram are cozying up for more seamless music sharing. Two new features make it easier for Spotify’s nearly 700 million users to share their favorite tunes. When sharing a Spotify track to Instagram Stories, a short snippet of the…
Astronomers trace massive cosmic explosion back 12 billion years. ‘This is the most distant event where we can directly see light escaping from around stars’
Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in question are Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs), recently discovered outbursts of X-rays…
How to import your old passwords into Apple Passwords
Apple now has an official password manager, but importing your old passwords from other apps into Apple Passwords can be a bit of a pain. Any password manager can import to Apple Passwords, so long as you have a Mac. The…
I’ve found the best Google Pixel 10, 10 Pro and 10 Fold preorder deals in Australia – including one with a free PS5 for a limited time
Google’s latest range of Pixel devices has finally broken cover, with the Pixel 10 series celebrating 10 generations of the search giant’s flagship phones with some welcome upgrades. The preorder period often marks the best time to buy a new phone…
Forging connections in space with cellular technology
Nokia’s ‘network in a box’ (NIB) was delivered to the Moon’s surface in March attached to the Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander. And there, in an area of the lunar highlands called Mons Mouton, the network powered up. For 25 minutes,…
Analogue delays its N64 remake console yet again
Analogue’s 4K take on the Nintendo 64 is… still not quite here. The company announced its third delay to the Analogue 3D on Wednesday, pushing the retro system back to Q4 2025. However, it said that’s an intentionally conservative estimate, so…
Watch a bright fireball explode above Japan, turning night to day (video)
Brilliant Meteor Illuminates Sakurajima Volcano and Kagoshima City, Japan 🇯🇵 (19.08.2025) pic.twitter.com/NpAJaNMZ9eAugust 19, 2025 A fireball briefly turned night to day in the skies over Japan on the night of Aug. 19, before appearing to fragment over the Pacific Ocean. The…
OWC's Express 1M2 80G is a blisteringly fast portable SSD
The new OWC Express 1M2 80G Portable SSD is Thunderbolt 5-compatible external storage that has massive transfer speeds over 6,000MB/s. OWC Express 1M2 80G Portable SSD Fast storage is essential in industries that have high data throughput needs, such as content…
Why Baidu’s Ernie matters more than DeepSeek
A few months ago, Chinese LLM DeepSeek-R1 made headlines. The world was introduced to an open-source AI model that matched OpenAI o1’s reasoning abilities at a fraction of the cost. A relatively obscure startup topped Apple’s App Store rankings and sent…