NASA to Test GPS-Like Navigation System at the Moon for the First Time
Firefly’s Blue Ghost will carry a navigation experiment all the way to the Moon.Illustration: NASA In December 1968, the Apollo 8 mission carried three astronauts on...
Amazon Pulls the Plug on Kindle in China
Books are displayed along side an Amazon Kindle device, which offers previews of those same books on nearby shelves at the Amazon Books store on November...
Will Netflix Survive the Streaming Wars?
Netflix is testing how much it can go up in price if you’re sharing your account. Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) The streaming wars are no...
Webb Space Telescope’s First Full-Color Images Are Just Weeks Away
A section of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by Webb’s MIRI instrument.Image: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI Long before Webb even launched from French Guiana, we’ve been waiting for this...
Valve Delays Steam Deck Dock, Cites Pandemic-Related Factory Closures
Image: Valve Valve is still struggling to make good on one of the Steam Deck’s biggest promised features: the Nintendo Switch-like ability to charge and connect...
Google Is Planning to Low-Key Nix Its Location-Based Assistant Reminders, but Why Now?
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) “Okay Google… Set a reminder to remind me to remind you to stop your location reminder feature.” Featured Videos Why is...
Why Uranus Is a Different Shade of Blue Than Neptune
A side-by-side view of the planets Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.Image: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center),...
Researchers in Japan Just Set a Staggering New Speed Record for Data Transfers
Image: Wikimedia – Ximeg Although high-speed wireless technologies like Wifi 6E and 5G dominate news headlines, analog, and optical cables are still the backbone of the...
Google is Confusing Us All Again By Combining Meet and Duo into One Video App
Duo will become Google Meet. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo I get annoyed by all the jokes people make about Google killing things willy-nilly. I think...