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NASA has been investigating the now-infamous Boeing Starliner incident since the story dominated headlines in late 2024 and early 2025. The Starliner suffered malfunctions that stranded now-retired astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore for months. The agency has now released a report on what happened, taking responsibility for its role in the mission’s failure. “The Boeing Starliner spacecraft has faced challenges throughout its uncrewed and most recent crewed missions,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman in a NASA blog post on Thursday. “While Boeing built Starliner, NASA accepted it and launched two astronauts into space. The technical difficulties encountered during docking with the International…

Researchers have made a breakthrough in anode-free lithium-ion batteriesA new gel electrolyte could solve one of the technology’s biggest problemsThis could unlock improved longevity and safety for the lithium-ion EV cellsResearchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science claim to have developed a new gel electrolyte that will help stabilize anode-free lithium-ion batteries. This should improve the safety and longevity of this emerging battery technology, while presenting a cost-saving to manufacturers.Anode-free lithium-ion batteries have been explored for a number of years, with a South Korean research team using an anode-free lithium metal battery architecture last year to…

Ubiquiti today unveiled its latest network console in the UniFi family, the Cloud Gateway Industrial (model UCG-Industrial). It’s the first product in the networking vendor’s all-new UniFi Industrial initiative, a platform that includes “ruggedized, fanless hardware built for extreme environments”. I had the chance to spend an extended period pre-launch with the new UniFi Network console, and it was something to behold! Here’s the bottom line: Despite the modest Wi-Fi specs and the relatively high $579 price tag, the UCG-Industrial is an excellent choice for anyone who wants/needs a robust, compact 10Gbps-capable, PoE-ready, all-in-one network solution. And for those working…

…and, worth repeating, it all looks exactly how I want it to look and behaves exactly how I want it to behave. Here’s another action shot! The final product. She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid. Credit: Lee Hutchinson The final product. She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid. Credit: Lee Hutchinson Problem spotted Armed with my handy-dandy log colorizer, I patiently waited for the wrong-comment-area problem behavior to re-rear its still-ugly head. I did not have to wait long, and within a couple of days,…

Formula 1 has been receiving star treatment from Apple for awhile, and now the racing series will literally be getting even bigger. Apple is partnering with IMAX to show five races from the 2026 season. The Miami Grand Prix on May 3, the Monaco Grand Prix on June 7, the British Grand Prix on July 5, the Italian Grand Prix on September 6 and the United States Grand Prix on October 25 will be aired live at select IMAX theaters in the US.Apple landed a five-year deal for the US broadcast rights to Formula 1 last fall and there’s already…

Apple is facing a lawsuit filed Thursday by West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey over allegations that iCloud is being used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material online. McCuskey alleges that Apple knew about this “for years” and “chose to do nothing about it.”The lawsuit contains alleged iMessage screenshots between Apple executives Eric Friedman and Herve Sibert acknowledging the storage and distribution of CSAM on iCloud back in February 2020.”In an iMessage conversation about whether Apple might be putting too much emphasis on privacy and not enough on trust and child safety, Friedman boasted that iCloud is ‘the…

Todd Howard has discussed The Elder Scrolls 6 in a new interviewHe said that it will return to the studio’s “classic style” of explorationHe also reiterated that “it’s going to be a while yet” until the game arrivesBethesda director Todd Howard has indicated that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be something of a return to form for the studio compared to Starfield and Fallout 76.Speaking in a video interview with KindaFunny (via IGN), Howard revealed that “the majority of people who made Skyrim” are still at the studio and hard at work on the next installment. He also claimed that…

Ubiquiti’s UNAS Pro 4 (model UNAS-Pro-4) is the final server in the Next-Gen UniFi Storage series, which includes four servers unveiled by Ubiquiti last year. It becomes available for purchase today. As a four-bay network-attached storage server, it’s similar to the UNAS 4 in terms of capacities. However, there are significant differences between the two. This quick take will highlight the differences to help you decide which one to bring home. Related stories on Ubiquiti and Wi-Fi Pros Rackmount design with dual SFP+ ports to deliver fast performance, comparatively affordable Four drive bay with advanced RAID support and optional NVMe SSD cache…

Migrations are ongoing Broadcom introduced changes to VMware that are especially unfriendly to small- and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and Gartner previously predicted that 35 percent of VMware workloads would migrate else by 2028. CloudBolt’s survey also examined how respondents are migrating workloads off of VMware. Currently, 36 percent of participants said they migrated 1–24 percent of their environment off of VMware. Another 32 percent said that they have migrated 25–49 percent; 10 percent said that they’ve migrated 50–74 percent of workloads; and 2 percent have migrated 75 percent or more of workloads. Five percent of respondents said that they have not…

Google has announced that using its newly incorporated Lyria 3 model, Gemini users will be able to generate 30-second music tracks based on a prompt, or remix an existing track to their liking. The new model builds on Gemini’s pre-existing ability to generate text, images and video, and will also be available in YouTube’s “Dream Track” feature, where it can be used to generate detailed backing tracks for Shorts.Like some other music generation tools, prompting Gemini doesn’t require a lot of detail to produce serviceable results. Google’s example prompt is “a comical R&B slow jam about a sock finding their…