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SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft splashed down in the Indian Ocean a little over an hour after its 8:25AM ET launch from South Texas. Almost seven minutes following liftoff, the Super Heavy booster returned to its launchpad, where the launch tower caught it using arms that SpaceX has nicknamed the “chopsticks.” The remarkable catch was a first … Read more

Backyard Baseball 1997 is back in all of its nostalgic glory, sliding onto Steam like Pablo Sanchez when he steals a base. But before Mega Cat Studios could remaster the cult favorite PC game, founder James Deighan had to sift through almost thirty years of detritus. Playground Productions, a children’s media company, scored the rights … Read more

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Gmail app comes pre-installed on the best Android phones you can buy. Gmail is also used by over 1.8 billion people — roughly 20% of the world’s population. Given the number of people who use the service, its pre-installation state on Android, all the fancy AI features in Gmail, … Read more

Last month C dropped from 3rd to 4th in TIOBE’s ranking of programming language popularity (which tries to calculate each language’s share of search engine results). Java moved up into the #3 position in September, reports TechRepublic, which notes that by comparison October “saw relatively little change” — though percentages of search results increased slightly. … Read more

Apple announced the HomePod mini smart speaker four years ago today at its “Hi, Speed” special event. The low-cost smart speaker was announced alongside the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, ‌iPhone‌ 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max in October 2020. The ‌HomePod mini‌ is Apple’s first compact smart speaker, offering high-quality audio, Siri voice … Read more

Back in the early 1970s, when soaring oil prices stifled consumer demand for gas-powered vehicles, Volkswagen took a bet on a battery system that would power its first-ever electric concept vehicle, the Elektro Bus. Now that the German auto maker is facing a huge slump in sales in Europe and China, it’s again … Read more

AI is everywhere and there is seemingly no getting away from it – especially when it comes to our phones. Should you be interested in this new technology and its proliferation, do you actually need to upgrade your device to take advantage? And should you actually care? That’s what we discuss in today’s video. Source … Read more

Getty Images Line judges will no longer feature at Wimbledon from next year “The drama of a player shouting and making a challenge, and the crowd watching the screen and waiting for Hawk-Eye to make a decision, all of that drama is now lost.” David Bayliss is describing a scene he saw play out many … Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has introduced a new tool to measure artificial intelligence capabilities in machine learning engineering. The benchmark, called MLE-bench, challenges AI systems with 75 real-world data science competitions from Kaggle, a popular platform for machine learning … Read more

ZDNET Summer is over, and we have officially entered the holiday shopping season with some of the biggest deal events of the year. Walmart’s holiday shopping event is in full-wing and the best part is that Walmart allows you to shop for deals without a pricey membership. All you have to do is visit the … Read more