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Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first flight in California, according to a press release spotted by Gizmodo. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (Quesst) aircraft is designed to reach supersonic speeds without the “sonic boom,” and now with this latest test flight complete, NASA and Lockheed plan to conduct future tests to measure the X-59’s “sound signature and conduct community acceptance testing.”The flight on Tuesday was between US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. “The X-59 performed…

Earlier this month, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD) called out AT&T for violating its rules in an advertisement seeking to disparage T-Mobile. AT&T has yet to pull the ad, but the airtime might not necessarily be doing it any favors.Carrier war fatigue is setting inIf the current growth trajectory continues, T-Mobile might soon unseat Verizon as the largest carrier in the US. That seems to be making Verizon and AT&T both feel insecure, which helps explain why both have been putting out ads against the carrier. AT&T’s latest campaign takes aim at T-Mobile for…

Did you know that several of the Mega Evolutions in Pokémon have some element of the letters “X” or “Y” in their designs? It’s true! While they don’t literally look like the letters in most cases, some aspects of their designs resemble the names of the 3DS Pokémon games they originally debuted in back in 2013. When one Pokémon pixel artist and commentator called TAHK0 pointed this out on X, he was bombarded with hateful responses. Where some people would retreat and try to ignore the harassment, TAHK0 instead made a two-and-a-half-hour-long video breaking down how almost every one of…

“Often, sweat was dripping down my back within the first two hours of a shift and would not stop dripping until the next morning,” writes Hu Anyan in the new English translation of his bestselling book I Deliver Parcels in Beijing. “I sweated so much I never once needed to pee.” This passage was on my mind as I read his book in Tianjin during one hot, Labubu brainrot summer, during which yet another unprecedented annual heat wave had forced almost everyone inside—except for the tireless couriers and delivery workers, whose services are in higher demand when temperatures soar.Courtesy of…

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly lopsided disk surrounding the mysterious nearby star Beta Canis Minoris, thanks to a brand new “photonic lantern” device that could vastly improve the observing power of ground-based telescopes.Beta Canis Minoris, also known as Gomeisa, is around 3.5 times more massive than the sun and is located approximately 162 light-years from Earth in the Canis Minor constellation, where it is visible to the naked eye at night. Despite its relative proximity to Earth, researchers still don’t know much about it. For example, past research suggested it is a close binary system made up of two smaller…

Threads is adding some much-needed control over your conversations. You can now manually approve replies on a post and filter your activity feed to see only mentions or people you follow.Threads is handing you the moderation keys Threads reply approvals. | Image credit — Meta Meta is continuing its push to make Threads the go-to spot for real-time, public conversations, and their latest update is all about control. Let’s be honest, public conversations online can get messy, so Threads is rolling out a couple of new tools to help you manage the chaos.The new tools in your kitReply Approvals: This…

Disney+ is making its first foray into HDR10+ content, but access to this content will be limited at the start. About 1,000 shows from Hulu will be available with this HDR standard, although other programming under the Disney umbrella will add support at an unspecified later date. Samsung, which is a major player behind this standard for high dynamic range video, announced the news. Disney+ will first offer the HDR10+ content on Samsung Crystal UHD TVs and above for models dating back to 2018, as well as select on Samsung Smart Monitors.HDR10+ builds on the HDR10 tech for image quality.…

Activision has officially announced its plans to make a Call of Duty movie. It will be written and directed by Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg with some writing help from Yellowstone’s creator Taylor Sheridan. No release date was shared. On October 30, following an initial report from Deadline, Paramount and Activision confirmed that after signing a deal in September to work together on a future Call of Duty movie, the companies have settled on a director for the live-action war movie based on the popular first-person shooter franchise. Peter Berg is directing, writing, and producing the Call of Duty…

Tired of pet hair and dust in the hard-to-reach spots of your home? Our favorite pick for cordless stick vacuums, the Bissell PowerClean FurFinder, is marked down to just $180 at Amazon. That matches the best price yet for this lightweight and capable stick vacuum, the same discount as Prime Day earlier this year. It even stands up on its own when not in use, truly blurring the line between stick and upright vacuums.Photograph: Nena FarrellPhotograph: Nena FarrellCourtesy of BissellBissellPowerClean FurFinderJust because it’s a small cordless vacuum, doesn’t mean it lacks power. The 200W motor inside does an excellent job…

Researchers and amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod kept track of 3I/ATLAS using GOES-19 weather satellite data. (Image credit: Image: CCOR-1/GOES-19/NOAA. Processed and annotated by Worachate Boonplod.)Comet 3I/ATLAS is rapidly brightening as it swings behind the sun, spacecraft observations have revealed.The comet has been flying around the sun, obscuring it from Earth’s view, to reach perihelion (its closest point to our star) on Thursday (Oct. 29).Yet, while most of the world has been waiting for it to re-emerge, some researchers and amateur astronomers have been using spacecraft to follow its path. You may like On Oct. 18, amateur astronomer and seasoned comet…