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Rocket Report: Russia claims success with new ICBM; spaceplane déjà vu in Europe
15 May 2026 @ 2:24 pm
SpaceX's upgraded Starship is set to launch on its first test flight as soon as Tuesday, May 19.
Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how
15 May 2026 @ 2:01 pm
Vaccines may be training a part of our immune system long thought to be untrainable.
Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom
15 May 2026 @ 1:51 pm
“This is a public trust and transparency issue.”
The perfect commuter bike? Velotric's Discover 3 makes its case.
15 May 2026 @ 11:00 am
A customized mid-motor and Shimano's new Cues components are a winning combination.
Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness"
15 May 2026 @ 10:30 am
"We have no grand plan," says Anthropic's Cat Wu—but that's by design.
Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype
14 May 2026 @ 9:32 pm
Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound."
Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
14 May 2026 @ 9:02 pm
One little mystery—solved.
Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
14 May 2026 @ 7:27 pm
People confide almost everything to their phones.
Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
14 May 2026 @ 7:17 pm
Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.
Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs
14 May 2026 @ 6:55 pm
FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.