Russia’s Soyuz 5 will soon come alive. But will anyone want to fly on it?
After nearly a decade of development, Russia’s newest launch vehicle is close to its debut flight. The medium-lift Soyuz 5 rocket is expected to launch
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Blast from the past: 15 movie gems of 1985
Peruse a list of films released in 1985 and you’ll notice a surprisingly high number of movies that have become classics in the ensuing 40
Four-inch worm hatches in woman’s forehead, wriggles to her eyelid
If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4.3 inch)
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
Under ardent anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham as its
OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide
Facing five lawsuits alleging wrongful deaths, OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen’s suicide and instead
HP to slash up to 6,000 jobs as component costs and AI reshape operations
HP announced plans to eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions by 2028 as part of what it described as an AI-driven transformation to save $1
ULA aimed to launch up to 10 Vulcan rockets this year—it will fly just once
Around this time last year, officials at United Launch Alliance projected 2025 would be their busiest year ever. Tory Bruno, ULA’s chief executive, told reporters
Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use
Worries about the US grid’s ability to handle the surge in demand due to data center growth have made headlines repeatedly over the course of
David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72
He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.
Apple’s iPhone has regained the smartphone sales crown
Even as it prepares to further diversify its iPhone range, Apple is about to regain the smartphone crown from Samsung, according to analysts from Counterpoint. “Apple is
Microsoft loses two senior AI infrastructure leaders as data center pressures mount
Microsoft has lost two senior data center and AI infrastructure leaders at a time when the company is racing to expand capacity for its Copilot
Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble
Crypto-hoarding companies are ditching their holdings in a bid to prop up their sinking share prices, as the craze for “digital asset treasury” businesses unravels
Tech firm’s new CTO gets indicted; company then claims he was never CTO
When four people were arrested and charged with a conspiracy to illegally export Nvidia chips to China, there was an interesting side note. One of