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"During Starship's ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly."

The iPhone 16e rethinks-and prices up-the basic iPhone.

Observers in Florida, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands spotted falling debris.

"I would like to get more data before we can determine the orientation."

Web game illicitly "wrapped in a mobile shell" climbed the paid App Store charts.

New research challenges prevailing idea that AI needs massive datasets to solve problems.

"For this sovereignty, we must yield to the temptation of preferring SpaceX."

A lot of Gboard beta users are suddenly remembering they joined the beta.

Trump admin decides fiber Internet won't be prioritized in BEAD grant program.

Phase I study showed vaccine was safe and spurred immune responses in older people.

Some of these ideas have genuine shots at making it into real products.

Get at that hard-to-remember app or garage pin with a new "Nearby" feature.

Tools "show evidence that their creators carefully worked the bones, chipping off flakes to create useful shapes."

Trump's efforts to shutter the CFPB sparks demand for Elon Musk ethics probe.

A taxi service that only operates in good weather isn't a good taxi service.

Digital sequence information alters how researchers look at the world's genetic resources.

Eleven11bot infects video recorders, with the largest concentration of them in the US.

Accepting AI-written code without understanding how it works is growing in popularity.

AI Mode could be the future of Google, but it's currently just an experiment.

"Of course, everybody's wondering, are we gonna land upright?"

Brother: Updates aren't behind degradation of quality or removal of features.

For $549 and $599, AMD comes close to knocking out Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070.

Adria Arjona: "It's human, it's incredibly truthful, and it just happens to be in a galaxy far, far away."

Google tries an old argument with a new Justice Department.

Tech innovation in US likely to stall if Trump ends the CHIPS Act.

OpenAI can proceed with for-profit shift while litigation continues, judge rules.

VW is preparing new front-wheel-drive EVs, the ID. 2all and ID. EVERY1.

Analysts also warn that tariffs could increase prices for game software and hardware.

It's increasingly unlikely that Lunar Trailblazer will deliver quality science.

Job cuts and longer hours at Blue Origin as founder takes prominent role.

It could explain why we're getting an M3 Ultra this deep into the M4 rollout.

Apple's high-end desktops get a strange (but overdue) mix-and-match refresh.

M2 and M3 Airs are mostly going away; M2 will still be sold in some countries.

The first Legends of the Five Rings PC game will make you work for your wins.

Sesame's new AI voice model features uncanny imperfections, and it's willing to act like an angry boss.

With most targeted changes not mammoth-specific, the focus is on gene editing.

Overdoses of vitamin A have serious risks-and it doesn't prevent measles.

A "zero gravity training sphere" makes an appearance, obviously.

Just one compromised VM can make all other VMs on that hypervisor sitting ducks.

Personality quizzes based on ambiguous images are bunk, but we can still learn from such psychological myths.

Apple appeal to Investigatory Powers Tribunal may be the first case of its type.

The app will reportedly offer contextual suggestions as you use the phone.

"We came up prepared to stay long, even though we plan to stay short."

Stock markets sink; US faces retaliatory tariffs and complaints at the WTO.

Even non-Pixel phones will get some goodies.

The base iPad also doubled its storage, is "6x faster" than some Android models.

Kennedy vowed last month to usher in an era of "radical transparency."

As Musk sticks his fingers in government, Tesla suffers serious reputational damage.

New survey also shows growing trust in scientists and health professionals.

It's not all bad news, but in many ways, this is barely an upgrade.