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NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb. 10, and four one-year option periods that if exercised would extend it to 2031. The contract includes a cost-plus-fixed-fee core with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity component and the ability to issue cost-plus-fixed-fee or firm-fixed-price task orders. The scope of the work includes launch range operations support such as radar, telemetry, logistics, tracking, and communications services for…
I’ve been using the same smartphone controller on my iPhone for years. That’s partly because most options are so similar. Announced at CES 2026, the X5 Alteron couldn’t be more different. It’s a collaboration between GameSir (which loves unusual peripheral ) and Hyperkin (retro-leaning ).The X5 Alteron is apparently the world’s first fully modular mobile games controller. While the headline feature might be the stick/d-pad/button modules, the X5 Alteron has a very accommodating vice grip that works with devices from iPhone and Android phones through to the Switch series and even iPads. There’s even Bluetooth if you want to use…
Elon Musk hasn’t stopped Grok, the chatbot developed by his artificial intelligence company xAI, from generating sexualized images of women. After reports emerged last week that the image generation tool on X was being used to create sexualized images of children, Grok has created potentially thousands of nonconsensual images of women in “undressed” and “bikini” photos.Every few seconds, Grok is continuing to create images of women in bikinis or underwear in response to user prompts on X, according to a WIRED review of the chatbots’ publicly posted live output. On Tuesday, at least 90 images involving women in swimsuits and…
For many people, a steady level of performance–no framerate dips or slowdown–is an important part of any video game. But what if it was the most important part of a game, such that if your performance tanked, you’d die? That’s the elevator pitch for FPS Quest, an upcoming first-person shooter that looks wild. FPS Quest starts off as a fantasy RPG with skeletons and knights in armor. But after getting their ass kicked one too many times, the game’s protagonist installs some mods that them decidedly non-fantasy weapons like a pistol, an assault rifle, and a shotgun. The game within…
Apple could be preparing a new entry-level MacBook aimed at buyers who want portability without flagship pricing. According to TrendForce, the company is working on a compact MacBook with a 12.9-inch display, expected to launch sometime in spring 2026. If accurate, it would sit below the current MacBook Air lineup and mark Apple’s return to smaller notebooks after discontinuing the 12-inch MacBook years ago. The display size would be slightly smaller than the 13.6-inch MacBook Air, though slim bezels could keep the overall footprint close to a standard keyboard. That approach would echo the ultra-light 12-inch MacBook Apple sold between…
MSI And NVIDIA Bring You The MPG 272QRF X36 NVIDIA’s G-SYNC Pulsar technology was first revealed at CES 2024, but we didn’t hear too much about it again until now. There will be four G-SYNC Pulsar displays available tomorrow, from Acer, AOC, ASUS and MSI. They are all going to be essentially the same, so while this post is specifically about MSI’s MPG 272QRF X36 it should apply to the other three monitors as well. We will see differences in the physical design of the displays and quite possibly unique OSD implementations, but the basic specs will be the same.…
A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was first spotted in the night sky in 1604. Today, astronomers know that a white dwarf star exploded when it exceeded a critical mass, after pulling material from a companion star, or merging with another white dwarf. This kind of supernova is known as a Type Ia, and scientists use it to measure the expansion of the universe. Supernova remnants, the debris fields left…
Last year at CES, Dreame showed off a robot vacuum prototype with a mechanical arm. But while we were able to see the arm extend and retract, we didn’t see the device, which was described as a prototype at the time, actually grab anything, which was a bit disappointing.This year, though, the company has made its arm-enabled vacuum a reality with the Cyber 10 Ultra. Dreame previewed it recently at IFA in Berlin, but has now confirmed it will be on sale later this year.The vacuum has an extendable arm that looks pretty similar to the prototype version we saw…
New televisions from Amazon, Hisense, TCL, and others are designed to display fine art and look like a painting when they’re switched off. It’s all thanks to smaller living spaces and new screen tech.
Today, MTV is a zombie network that primarily airs episodes of Ridiculousness and random Paramount-owned comedy films. It’s depressing. But before all that, before The Real World and Road Rules, MTV was a channel that mostly played music videos, and it was cool. So I was happy to hear that someone has created a free MTV simulator website, complete with retro ads. MTV Rewind is a website that tries to recreate the experience of watching the original music channel back in the day. When you first visit the site, it starts playing the original MTV broadcast, complete with VJ introductions and…