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USB PD, PPS, SuperVOOC and more: why can’t fast charging settle on one standard?
Plug a phone that tops out at 20W into a 100W charger and you get 20W. That's the whole problem…
Instagram is feeding your off-app activity into AI and ads — which 7 settings shut it off?
There's no single switch that turns off Instagram's data collection. I went looking for one, and what I found instead…
TikTok pays $400 million to end the DOJ’s child privacy case
Four hundred million dollars is what it costs to make a children's privacy lawsuit go away when you're TikTok. The…
Trump’s new space transportation policy wants a spaceport built on federal land
The number to remember is 1,000. That's how many launches and reentries per year the US space transportation ranges are…
Starcloud lands $250M more for orbital data centers as rockets get scarce
Starcloud has an FCC application on file for 88,000 spacecraft. It has 25 employees. That gap tells you most of…
Trump admin brings ex-JPMorgan exec Matt Zames in to advise Social Security
There's already a placard with his name on it outside an office at Social Security Administration headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland.…
SpaceX left a 60-foot scar on the Moon and ULA finally named a new boss
A dead Falcon 9 upper stage punched a crater roughly 60 feet across and less than 10 feet deep into…
NASA finally photographed the crater a SpaceX Falcon 9 punched into the Moon
A rocket stage that left Earth in January 2025 hit the Moon on Aug. 5, and it took NASA six…
NASA scraps the mission to save its falling Swift observatory
The rescue is off. NASA has pulled the plug on the part of the mission that mattered most: nobody is…
LG’s new FLiPP OLED tech ditches metal masks for bigger, brighter panels
LG says its new OLED panels can run 1.6 times brighter and last 2.4 times as long, while drawing 13…