Russia just launched the first satellites for a massive new communications constellation. A small German rocket company is gearing up for its second orbital attempt. And across the global launch industry, a quiet but consequential reshuffling is underway — one that has less to do with geopolitics than with the raw economics of getting hardware

In the frozen expanses of northern Sweden, where temperatures plunge to minus 35 degrees Celsius and daylight is a fleeting courtesy, a small fleet of prototype vehicles recently completed one of the most consequential validation exercises in modern automotive engineering. The cars weren’t production models. They were rolling testbeds carrying a new electrical and software

The promise is simple: turn on a VPN, and your internet activity becomes invisible. Millions of consumers and businesses pay for that promise every month. But there’s a question most of them never ask, one that may matter more than encryption strength or server count or any other technical specification. Where is the VPN company

For more than a decade, the Android Debug Bridge has been the ultimate backdoor. A tool originally built for developers to test software, ADB became something far more significant: the mechanism through which power users could strip bloatware from carrier phones, sideload apps Google didn’t approve, and exert genuine control over hardware they owned. That

Americans haven’t stopped arguing about artificial intelligence since ChatGPT landed like a grenade in the public consciousness in late 2022. But something has shifted. The debate is no longer confined to Silicon Valley boardrooms and academic conferences. It’s showing up in town halls, union meetings, and kitchen-table conversations — the places where political movements are

A small Chinese phone maker is doing something almost nobody else will: building a new smartphone with a full physical QWERTY keyboard. And people are paying for it before it even exists. Unihertz, the Shenzhen-based company that has carved out a peculiar niche manufacturing phones the mainstream industry abandoned years ago, has launched a Kickstarter

LibreOffice stands as a prominent example of open-source software that has built a dedicated following over the years, offering tools for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more without the need for costly licenses. Yet, within its community and among users, reactions to updates, features, or even minor tweaks often escalate into heated debates that highlight

A French AI company just dropped a new weapon into the increasingly crowded fight over synthetic speech. And it’s free. Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup that has positioned itself as Europe’s most credible challenger to OpenAI and Google in the foundation model race, released an open-source model called Mistral Speech on Wednesday. The model generates