TL;DR: After years of delays, the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule was scheduled for mid-April, but the mission is facing postponement once more – this time due to scheduling conflicts. The planned mission will fly atop a United Launch Alliance rocket, take two astronauts up to the ISS for a brief stay, before […]
How the M3 MacBook Air finally completes the Apple Silicon transition
More than four months after unveiling the M3 chip in the new 14-inch MacBook Pro, Apple has finally updated the other laptops in its family, the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air. The new machines are essentially a spec-bump that should make buying a laptop a simpler process. Apple’s three plain-Jane M3 machines range in price […]
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the talk-it-up dept This week, our first place winner on the insightful side Toom1275 with a comment about Missouri’s new speech police: Teaching kids the reality that trans people exist and are normal is no more grooming them than teaching kids that frogs exist is grooming them to become amphibians. In second place, we’ve […]
5 Things You Need To Know Before Subscribing To YouTube Premium
With YouTube Premium, streaming is a lot less stressful as you won’t have to deal with annoying ads popping out right when you get to the best part of the videos. YouTube, however, still enforces certain streaming limitations that can affect your viewing and listening experience. First off, YouTube has ad-free movies — which you […]
Sixty Four is a beautiful system design toy that reveals something rather dark
Enlarge / Your author is eight hours in and only recognizes roughly 50 percent of the objects and resources in this provided screenshot. It gets deeper—and weirder. Playsaurus There haven’t been many times in my life where I’ve wondered if this feeling I have is something that oil barons must have felt at the height […]
The Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable Mess
On Sunday, Kensington Palace released a photo of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. The image, also shared to the royal couple’s Instagram account, depicts Middleton seated, smiling, and surrounded by her three children. Purportedly taken by her husband Prince William in Windsor, the photo was widely distributed by wire services like the Associated Press, […]