A YF-22 and a YF-23 in flight. US Air Force On September 29, 1990, the YF-22 demonstration aircraft took off for the first time. The YF-22 would become the F-22, a dominant air-superiority stealth fighter for nearly 30 years. Now the F-22’s future is in doubt, with Congress and the US Air Force at odds…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
A little over six months after its big reveal, World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight expansion has been given a release date, with its launch now officially scheduled for 28th November this year. As detailed back in April, Dragonflight’s first major addition is a new location known as the Dragon Isles, the long-hidden ancestral home of dragonkind….
Intel’s Arc A750 arrives next month. | Image: Intel Intel surprised PC gamers earlier this week with $329 pricing for its top Arc A770 GPU, matching Nvidia’s RTX 3060 retail pricing. While it’s still difficult to find an RTX 3060 at $329, Intel is now undercutting Nvidia’s popular GPU with a $289 starting price for…
Enlarge / Let’s see: Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia Geforce Now, Xbox again, and Steam Link. That’s all the cloud streaming services, right? Nothing’s missing. (credit: Logitech) It’s not every day that you see the attempted birth of an entirely new category of video game hardware. But it feels like that’s what we’re seeing this month…
The moon, seen above NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/Kim Shiflett The moon’s soil is filled with small spheres of glass. These pieces of glass, often called beads, formed millions of years ago when asteroids slammed into the lunar surface, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. But these…
It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of…
Satellites in low Earth orbit can’t linger too long after they’ve finished what they went there to do, according to new rules passed by the FCC today. Now there’s a five year limit on loitering in orbit, which should help keep the space debris problem more manageable in years to come. The FCC, for reasons…
A group of House Democrats has unveiled a new bill that aims to put limits on the use of facial recognition technologies by law enforcement agencies across the United States. Dubbed the Facial Recognition Act, the bill would compel law enforcement to obtain a judge-authorized warrant before using facial recognition. By adding the warrant requirement,…
Security experts have once again highlighted how it’s almost 2023 and we’re still holding on to the password as our number one cybersecurity measure. Despite a continued stream of headlines concerning businesses suffering tremendous losses due to poor cyberhygiene practices, most employees are still being reckless with their sensitive data, sharing them with other people,…
Google is upgrading its Speech Services by Google speech engine, in a move it says will provide “clearer, more natural voices” for Android users using its text-to-speech services. All 421 voices in 67 languages have apparently been upgraded with a new voice model and synthesizer, “built using fresher speaker data.” This update will be rolling…