Nearly three years ago, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced its intent to develop a flyable nuclear thermal propulsion system. The goal was to develop more responsive control of spacecraft in Earth orbit, lunar orbit, and everywhere in between, giving the military greater operational freedom in these domains.

Apple is taking steps to separate its mobile operating system from features offered by Google parent Alphabet, making advances around maps, search, and advertising that have created a collision course between the Big Tech companies.

Hundreds of Amazon workers are on strike in Britain. The walkout marks the first formal industrial action in the country for the U.S. tech giant. The 24-hour strike action began Wednesday a minute after midnight. Strikers are expected to picket outside the company’s site in Coventry in central England throughout the day.

GuliKit, makers of the truly excellent KingKong Pro 2 wireless controller for the Nintendo Switch, which we reviewed last year, has just released an upgrade/repair kit for the official Nintendo Joy-Cons that brings its drift-free Hall effect joysticks to the handheld console’s native controllers.

In the words of SpongeBob SquarePants, it’s time to use your imagination. One user on TikTok is sharing a theory about the characters on Nickelodeon’s hit cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants” — and viewers are shook.

Last week, we reported that the prominent technology news site CNET had been quietly publishing articles generated by an unspecified "AI engine." The news sparked outrage. Critics pointed out that the experiment felt like an attempt to eliminate work for entry-level writers, and that the accuracy of current-generation AI text generators is notoriously poor. The fact that CNET never publicly announced the program, and that the disclosure that the posts were bot-written was hidden away b...

It was New Year's Eve in Corralitos, California, and after several days of heavy storms, it looked like the bridge was not going to make it. About seven households in the remote community east of Santa Cruz were about to be cut off from the main road. But as rains poured down and the creek rose, Darrel Hardy came up with a plan.

Actor Noah Schnapp, known for his role as Will Byers in the popular Netflix series "Stranger Things," has publicly announced that he is gay. In a recent TikTok video, Schnapp expressed that he had been afraid to come out for 18 years before finally receiving support from his friends and family. Schnapp's character Will has also been confirmed to be gay, with Schnapp stating that Will's sexuality was hinted at in earlier seasons of the show and is now "100% clear." T...

As podcaster Peter McCormack has often observed, almost everything happening has a Bitcoin angle nowadays. This might not be surprising as Bitcoin is money and money runs the world, but it is surprising how quickly Bitcoin has moved into the centre of political controversy, both in national debates and geopolitical struggles. So here are six things that happened in 2022. Six things that’ll show up again in 2023 — but in different forms and featuring different people.

Teens who frequently checked social media showed an increasing sensitivity to peer feedback, although the cause of the changes was not clear.

It’s been a good run for the narcissists. Over the past decade or so, a mix of shameless self-aggrandizement and self-confident charm has served certain people extraordinarily well, turning them into venture-capital darlings, licensed-merchandise magnates, Forbes cover models, social media superstars, Oprah confessors, business-conference keynoters, new-money plutocrats and, in one case, president.

A company soon to settle in West Virginia has developed a battery that offers four days of full discharge using some of the cheapest, most available elements on earth. “They are now building and will soon deliver a next generation battery. It's based on iron, water and oxygen. You couldn't imagine a simpler supply chain,” said George Crabtree, a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and leader of the national labs’ efforts to develop next-generation batteries.

After big preview numbers headed into the weekend, Avatar: The Way of Water came in below predictions of $500-600 million — mostly due to a shocking uncontrolled surge of Covid in China that’s filling hospitals and spreading like wildfire through a population unprepared to deal with it — the $435 million worldwide holiday debut weekend is still the second-biggest of 2022 and points the way toward a potential multi-billion theatrical run.

Individuals with long COVID, sometimes referred to as “long-haulers,” experience symptoms that may persist for weeks, months, or even years after their acute viral infection. While symptoms vary widely, a common complaint among patients is “brain fog”—a colloquial term for significant, persistent cognitive deficits, with consistent impairment of executive functioning and working memory.

Climate change-induced higher temperatures, shifting seasons, extreme drought and precipitation events, extended heat waves and fires are all impacting insects, with resonating effects on habitats, other wildlife and humanity.

T-Mobile’s Home Internet is popular. So popular that they’ve had to partner with 3 separate vendors to provide hardware to keep up with demand. According to sources, that demand is about to have a sudden spike. As detailed in a brief document shared with us here at The T-Mo Report, embedded below, and confirmed via a report from CNET, T-Mobile will soon be offering an absolutely bonkers 50% off Home Internet service for life to new and existing customers.

Airbus says it's on track to have a fully operational megawatt-class electric powertrain, fueled by cryogenic liquid hydrogen, tested in flight by 2026, ahead of a full-scale zero-emissions passenger airliner it plans to put into service by 2035.

A surgical team has used a new type of robot to remove a cancerous tumour from a patient's throat. Gloucestershire Royal Hospital surgeons Simon Higgs and Steve Hornby employed the Versius robot to remove a tumour from Martin Nugent's oesophagus.