How a new instrument could reveal the secrets of the stars

One year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency has withheld relevant documents “in bad faith” and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to draw out the information. “Thus…

Since I saw the TCL X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at a pre-CES event in December, I’ve been eager to get a close look at it in my living room. At first glance, the TV impressed me enough that I named it the best TV of CES 2026. From the moment I completed Google TV setup…

Towerborne, a side-scrolling action RPG published by Xbox Game Studios that has been available in early access, will officially launch on February 26th. But instead of launching as a free-to-play, always-on online game as originally planned, Towerborne is instead going to be a paid game that you can play offline. “You will own the complete…

If you are going to promise users privacy, then you really need to follow through. Tea Dating Advice, a service that advertised itself as a safe space for women to anonymously share information about former partners—to warn others about abuse and cheating—says that it is locked down. Users are not allowed to take screenshots, and…

Waymo is adding four new US cities to the gradual rollout of its robotaxi service. As reported by , the company said it has already started trialling self-driving cars in Philadelphia, albeit with a human safety monitor, and that it will now commence similar manual tests in Baltimore, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. After the initial…

Farmers are asking people to be patient with the smell of manure as they spread it on their fields to prepare the land for next year’s crops. Muck-spreading is the process of distributing animal manure across farmland as a natural fertiliser and typically takes place twice a year, in spring and late summer. Although “it…