Bags of metal shavings, various tree seeds, and four Lego minifigs are among the items set to take flight on NASA’s first Artemis I launch attempt. By Stephanie Mlot While NASA’s first Artemis I launch attempt—scheduled for between Aug. 29 and Sept. 5—may be uncrewed, it won’t be unoccupied. The…

French scientist Étienne Klein tweeted the image as a joke and a cautionary tale about fake news, but it seems some people took him seriously. By Michael Kan Did you see a stunning image of Proxima Centauri taken by the James Webb Space Telescope online last week? Sorry, you’ve been…

In honor of George Jetson’s birthday, we take a look at all the current technologies Hanna-Barbera accurately anticipated when the show was created in 1962. By Francisco Lahoz When The Jetsons premiered in 1962, show writers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera imagined what the future might look like in 100…

Remember Jaz and Zip discs? Since the debut of the IBM PC, there have been many ways to store your data, and if you’re geeks like us, you care about this sort of thing. By Eric Griffith Since the dawn of computing, we’ve struggled with how to store all this…

It’s a new world for the differently abled thanks to software patches, but hardware needs to be designed from the beginning with accessibility in mind. By Christopher Reardon The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders reports that 15% (37.5 million) of Americans over the age of 18 have…

Since it isn’t a priority in public schools, parents must teach kids the fundamentals of online safety. Here’s where to start. By Kim Key When I attended public school in the late 90s and early 00s, I learned how to perform now-archaic tasks such as writing cursive script, balancing a…

The first sample of AMD’s new Threadripper Pro 5000 series just showed up at PC Labs! We couldn’t help but tease our first benchmarks from this ultimate beast-mode processor. By Charles Jefferies AMD’s elite Ryzen Threadripper processors and their huge dies, derived from the company’s Epyc server chips, have distinguished…

The sweeping competition bill, which offers $280 billion in funding for high-tech research, development, and manufacturing in the US, now goes to President Biden for his signature. By Rob Pegoraro Semiconductor manufacturing and a host of other high-tech activities—from nuclear fusion to drone transportation to particle-accelerator research—stand to get a…

They’ve been installed on Android devices nearly 10 million times, and some are still available. By Matthew Humphries A fresh batch of 36 Android apps containing adware and malware have been discovered on the Google Play Store. They have been downloaded nearly 10 million times, some still remain available, and…