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Hello, readers, and welcome to This Week in Space. Arianespace’s Vega-C rocket made an unplanned aquabraking maneuver in December, crashing into the ocean and destroying the vehicle and its payload satellites. Now, ESA officials report that they know why. Alas,… Continue Reading →

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger holds an 18A SRAM wafer. (Credit: Intel) Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger holds an 18A SRAM wafer (Credit: Intel)In today’s edition of “Intel Roadmap Watch,” we’re learning the company has finalized plans for its most advanced nodes…. Continue Reading →

The Metaverse was on everyone’s lips in 2022, even though no one can really explain what the heck it is. With the internet zeitgeist now locked on AI chatbots in 2023, Meta appears to be reevaluating the high prices of… Continue Reading →

RTX 3050 partner cards. As 2023 plods along, more bad news for the PC hardware industry has arrived from Jon Peddie Research. The market analysis firm has tallied up shipments of CPUs as well as discrete GPUs for the fourth… Continue Reading →

Good afternoon, readers, and welcome to This Week in Space: Your weekly roundup of news from here to the big empty. This week, a lot is going on with SpaceX and the International Space Station.  Today we’ll hear those updates,… Continue Reading →

(Credit: Nvidia)If you wiled away your time playing games during the height of the pandemic, you probably remember how expensive gaming hardware was. Video cards were particularly overpriced thanks to crypto mining, but falling prices and Ethereum’s move to proof-of-stake… Continue Reading →

Less than 50 percent of F-22 Raptors are available and ready for service. The recent hyper-focus on the Chinese “spy balloon” that drifted over the US earlier this month has everyone gazing skyward. While they were looking, the US Air… Continue Reading →

(Image: Ford)Ford is pausing production and shipments of its F-150 Lightning, the highly anticipated, first-of-its-kind electric pickup from a mainstream automaker. Company sokesperson Emma Bergg confirmed for Motor Authority Tuesday that it would temporarily freeze the F-150 Lightning’s assembly line… Continue Reading →

Since RGB software entered the PC market many moons ago, it’s been a disorganized mess. Every company that makes hardware with RGB has its own software to control it. Few of these utilities, if any, can sync with one another…. Continue Reading →

OnePlus has long since shed the guise of a scrappy startup, operating now as a closely aligned subsidiary of Chinese megafirm Oppo. Perhaps as a result, the last few OP release cycles have been lackluster, but 2023 is shaping up… Continue Reading →