On August 24, NASA will finally announce how Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronauts that flew to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner, will be coming home. Earlier this month, the agency said it was already in talks with SpaceX about the poss…
Continue reading "NASA will soon announce whether Starliner’s astronauts are coming back on a SpaceX vehicle"Neuralink has published an update on the second patient in its early human trials, and it said that "promisingly," it has "observed no thread retraction" in the participant. The Elon Musk-led startup implants a chip into the human b…
Continue reading "Neuralink says it may have fixed its brain implant problem"The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) efforts to ban noncompete agreements has been blocked by a federal judge in Texas. According to The Washington Post, US District Judge Ada Brown has determined that the agency doesn't have the authority to e…
Continue reading "Texas judge blocks the FTC from enforcing its ban on noncompete agreements"Hyper Light Drifter fans, you'll have to wait a bit longer to start playing its follow-up title. Heart Machine has announced that it has pushed back Hyper Light Breaker's Steam Early Access launch to "very early next year." In its ann…
Continue reading "Hyper Light Breaker’s early access launch delayed to 2025"A game developer called Amazing Seasun Games is demonstrating NVIDIA's Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) technology through its upcoming multiplayer mecha game Mecha BREAK at Gamescom this year. NVIDIA unveiled ACE at Computer 2023, presenting it as a &quo…
Continue reading "NVIDIA’s ACE virtual human tech is making its way into an actual game"Lucasfilm has decided not to renew The Acolyte for a second season, according to Deadline and Variety. Fans won't get to see how the show was supposed to end and won't get to know how the plotlines its creator, Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), t…
Continue reading "Star Wars: The Acolyte isn’t getting a second season"The next entry in the Pacific Rim franchise could be an origin story for the universe, set before the events of the 2013 film by Guillermo del Toro. According to Variety, the franchise's producer Legendary Entertainment has signed a first-look TV d…
Continue reading "A Pacific Rim prequel series is being developed by the scriptwriter of Bird Box"Instagram is testing a new profile grid layout that features rectangular images instead of the squares you're used to. In an Instagram story, Adam Mosseri has revealed that the app is testing a vertical grid for users' profiles. He explained th…
Continue reading "Instagram’s experimental profile grid has rectangular images instead of squares"A data dump that contains 2.7 billion records of personal information for people living in the US, including their Social Security Numbers, have recently been leaked online. The data dump's contents were linked to National Public Data, a company th…
Continue reading "National Public Data confirms breach that exposed Americans’ social security numbers"A phishing campaign that the FBI believes is linked to Iran has been targeting members of the Trump and Harris camps as they seek to be elected as the president of the United States later this year. While the bad actors have reportedly been trying to s…
Continue reading "FBI says Iranian hackers are targeting both presidential campaigns"