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Starlink competitor AST SpaceMobile plans orbital launch for next week

AST SpaceMobile is taking another step toward its goal of providing a space-based mobile communications network — one that would turn any standard smartphone into

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A creepy, sonar-like sound coming through Starliner’s speaker posed a brief mystery on the ISS

Starliner is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and make its return trip to Earth uncrewed in just a matter of days, but

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Comcast Xfinity customers can get a year of Perplexity Pro AI for free

If you have an account with Comcast Xfinity, then you also have a year-long subscription to the Perplexity Pro AI answer engine. Perplexity announced the

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Labor Day sales include 25 percent off one year of 1Password

Labor Day sales have come for subscriptions and services as well as things like tablets and speakers. One of the best Labor Day sales we’ve

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Starliner astronauts will come home in February on a SpaceX Crew Dragon

After more than two months of tests and discussions, NASA has decided that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will come home in February 2025

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Lego’s first Mario Kart sets start throwing out shells on January 1

Back when Lego first announced that Mario Kart sets would be arriving in 2025, we didn’t expect them to release on the very first day

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The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars ‘talk’ to each other

The US Department of Transportation has laid out a nationwide road safety plan [PDF] that will lead to cars communicating with each other. The agency

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Kim Dotcom, roguish face of 2010s online piracy, will finally be extradited to the US

Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder and hard-partying face of early 2010s online piracy, is finally headed to the US. Reuters reports that New Zealand’s justice

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TikTok is finally rolling out group chats for up to 32 people

is some direct message updates, including “highly requested” group chats. Owner ByteDance notes that group chats just yet, but those who do have access to

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Warner Bros. sends Cartoon Network’s website to the digital graveyard

Warner Bros. Discovery has pulled Cartoon Network’s entire website from the web, which means that you can no longer access free episodes and other interactive