Epic has yet to find a platform it hasn’t wanted to put Fortnite on — only ones it wasn’t allowed to put the game on — so its not surprising the developer is going all out with the Nintendo Switch 2….
Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing on June 5
The Japanese private spaceflight company ispace aims to make history on Thursday (June 5) with its second attempt to land on the moon. The Resilience lander is currently orbiting the moon as it prepares to land within Mare Frigoris (“Sea of…
Epomaker Split65 keyboard review: Price, specs, and more
In a world of many “samey” Mac mechanical keyboards, the Epomaker Split65 stands out. It features a split design that’s supposedly more ergonomic, but not everyone will actually be able to type with it. I’m a sucker for a keyboard and…
The growing shadow in healthcare: securing the vulnerable supply chain
In today’s hyper-connected healthcare environment, the supply chain has quietly become one of the sector’s most vulnerable digital frontiers. Once viewed purely as a logistical or procurement function, the modern healthcare supply chain now includes everything from pharmaceutical distributors and cloud-based…
The Download: Reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and Caiwei Chen’s three things
One more thing A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they talk shop. The photos…
TikTok now blocks search results for #SkinnyTok
TikTok no longer shows search results for the hashtag #SkinnyTok. Critics who supported this block said some videos with that label were promoting disordered eating and other unhealthy or risky diet behaviors. We’ve reached out to TikTok for comment on this…
Fred Espenak, astronomy’s ‘Mr. Eclipse’, dies at 71
Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak. On April 15, 2025, Espenak announced on his Facebook page that he had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, his health was declining rapidly, and that…
iPhone 17 rumor: no ProMotion display
Render of a possible iPhone 17 design A new report from a leaker with a mixed track record says that the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air may get a high-refresh rate display, but it won’t be ProMotion. ProMotion is the…
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s 60fps upgrade on Nintendo Switch 2 genuinely makes it look a hundred times better
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet had new footage revealed in the Nintendo Today app The new footage showcases the game running at 60fps on Nintendo Switch 2 The image quality is also noticeably much cleaner Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is set to…
The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava
One more thing Adventures in the genetic time machine An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the past. The technology is being used to create genetic maps of…