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Welcome to Edition 8.39 of the Rocket Report! There’s a lot of news to share in the universe of powerful rockets this week, and we’re delighted to sum it up in this week’s edition. The biggest rocket of them all, Starship, had a relatively quiet week as SpaceX aims to launch the vehicle’s next test flight, perhaps sometime in May. The results of that flight and the outcome of Blue Origin’s first attempt to land on the Moon with its Blue Moon cargo lander in the coming months should tell us a lot about NASA’s actual chances of putting astronauts…
The Lord of the Rings will always hold a place of honor in Magic: The Gathering. At a time when Universes Beyond crossover cards were confined to limited Secret Lair drops like The Walking Dead, or preconstructed Commander decks like Warhammer 40K, The Lord of the Rings introduced the first-ever tentpole Universed Beyond expansion with Tales of Middle-Earth in 2023.Now, Tolkien’s high fantasy world is returning to Wizards of The Coast’s tenured trading card game in August with The Hobbit, the prequel story to the LOTR trilogy. After seeing a handful of cards at a pre-MagicCon Las Vegas press preview…
As we wrote last month, the extent of the shipping delays can probably be blamed on multiple factors. AI-related demand for the desktops and chip shortages are probably factors, but Apple is also said to be planning replacements for both systems with Apple M5-series chips later this year, and it’s common for models to see their ship times slip when replacements are imminent. Cook’s “several months” estimate could easily include the introduction of new models, plus whatever time Apple needs to catch up to pent-up demand afterward. Cook also noted that “customer response to MacBook Neo has been off the…
Ask any Magic: The Gathering player what the most disappointing set of the past 12-18 months has been, and the Spider-Man set from September 2025 will often be the first or second choice. A mishmash of popular and obscure characters (Spider-UK? Huh?), inconsistent mechanics, and a subpar limited environment doomed Peter Parker’s first foray into the MTG world.The next set on the 2026 schedule, however, is Marvel Super Heroes, and Wizards of the Coast hopes to prove that Spider-Man was an exception, not the rule. After the set’s brief appearance during the Preview Panel at MagicCon: Las Vegas, the jury…
On Thursday, the publicly traded spaceflight company Virgin Galactic shared on social media a new photo of its next-generation spaceship being towed outside of its factory in Mesa, Arizona. You remember Virgin Galactic, right? The space tourism company was founded 22 years ago by Sir Richard Branson to bring spaceflight to the masses. Hundreds of people began buying tickets to space nearly two decades ago. And after a long, and at times deadly, development campaign, the company reached outer space (defined, somewhat controversially, as an altitude of 80 km and above) in December 2018. The company began flying passengers in…
May 4 is just around the corner, which is as good an excuse as any to celebrate being a Star Wars fan by buying all the new things (unless you’re saving your pennies for that Jedi Master badge for Celebration, that is). If fandom-themed bags are your jam, you might be interested in Loungefly’s newest additions to its Star Wars collection, which include five new backpacks, two new crossbody bags, and a cute new selection of charms to add to your daily carries. They’re all available now, and we’ve detailed them all below. If you’re quick, you can get them…
The control strategies for the double-clutch paddle-shift gearbox have also been improved, cutting shift times at the expense of a bit of refinement. But then that’s the point: If you want a soothing luxury SUV, many other companies will sell you one. Ferrari buyers want the feeling of the next gear engaging to be a little more brutal, particularly if they’re in one of the more permissive traction and stability control settings (or if those are disengaged entirely). In manual mode, that happens when you shift above 5,500 rpm, Ferrari tells us. To let people know you spent an as-yet-unannounced…
Even before I began playing Magic The Gathering, I had heard of Jace Beleren. Though the mono-blue spellslinger hasn’t taken center stage in any of the game’s ongoing stories for a few years, his reputation and past actions loom over nearly every expansion and solidify him as one the game’s most famous figures. Now, Jace is readying up to return in a big way, as Magic the Gathering’s next in-universe set, Reality Fracture, sees him, quite literally, reshape the universe we know and love.Leading up to MagicCon Las Vegas, long-time Magic the Gathering designer Mark Rosewater and Reality Fracture creative…
Is it just “fear-based marketing”? The new results for GPT-5.5 suggest that, when it comes to cybersecurity risk, Mythos Preview was likely not “a breakthrough specific to one model” but rather “a byproduct of more general improvements in long-horizon autonomy, reasoning, and coding,” AISI writes. In a recent interview with the Core Memory podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized what he calls “fear-based marketing” in promoting limited releases for certain AI models. While he said he’s “sure Mythos is a great model for cybersecurity,” he added that “it is clearly incredible marketing to say, ‘We have built a bomb. We…
At a recent NYU lecture, former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé divulged on a conversation between himself and an Amazon executive. Meeting in the late 2000s, Fils-Aimé says the e-commerce giant attempted to pressure Nintendo to not just burn relationships with other retailers, but outright break the law. “Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space,” said Fils-Aimé. “Amazon’s mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower than Walmart… Essentially what Amazon wanted (was an) obscene amount of support, financial support, so they could have the lowest…