Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
In a widely anticipated teleconference, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson unsurprisingly extended the dates for the space agency's first two crewed missions to the Moon since the Apollo program. NASA's Artemis program launched its first successful mission in 2022, and Artemis 2 was initially planned to take to the skies this year by flying a crew around the Moon. Artemis 3 was scheduled to take off a year later and work in tandem with SpaceX's Starship rocket. Now, NASA has delayed Artemis 2 and 3 by a year. However, the Artemis 4 mission is on track for a launch no earlier […]
After a busy day at Starbase, Texas, SpaceX has officially shared details about the latest leg of its Starship test campaign. The company conducted engine tests of the first and second-stage Starship boosters earlier today, and each of these was intended to demonstrate specific outcomes. Specifically, SpaceX's second-stage Starship is increasingly tilting some of its tests to demonstrate capabilities that might be required to conduct a safe orbital journey. NASA has contracted SpaceX to provide the Artemis Moon mission lunar lander, and SpaceX shared on X earlier today that the second stage tested the ability of its engine to start […]
True to form, SpaceX is continuing to test its Starship rockets in Texas after it completed a record setting 96 missions to space late night yesterday. Friday has been a busy day at SpaceX's facilities in Boca Chica, Texas as the firm has fired up the engines for both stages of its Starship rocket system. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and the close of 2023 is seeing SpaceX move fast towards its third orbital test flight amidst chances that the upcoming test might also be the first that sees Starship attempt to deploy a payload to space. SpaceX Fires […]
With the year ending, SpaceX is in no mood to slow down its progress towards the highly anticipated third Starship integrated test flight. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and to date, SpaceX has tested several upper-stage spacecraft and two Super Heavy boosters in flight tests. SpaceX's second Starship fully integrated test flight took place in November, and it followed months of anticipation as the firm waited on government agencies to clear its pad for future tests. Now, it looks like the third Starship test will take place much sooner than the second test did, as SpaceX has tested the […]
SpaceX's general manager for Starbase, Kathy Leuders, outlined in a presentation given earlier this month that the firm is planning to increase its Starship launch cadence from Texas rapidly. This process will involve SpaceX and the FAA working together on multiple licensing applications simultaneously, according to Ms. Leuders. Her presentation shared that SpaceX is rapidly expanding its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, and will soon build a rocket manufacturing factory called Starfactory. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and SpaceX's plans for it range from interplanetary missions going as far as Mars to conducting point-to-point flights on Earth. SpaceX Sheds […]
With six days left to go before the year ends, SpaceX has now launched 94 rockets since January after launching a radar reconnaissance satellite for the German Ministry of Defence. The launch marked SpaceX's 182nd consecutive landing of an orbital class rocket booster through its workhorse Falcon 9 medium-lift rocket. After today's launch, the next one SpaceX's manifest is of three Falcon 9s bulked together as part of the Falcon Heavy System. SpaceX Flies Falcon 9 Rocket Booster For 8th Time After Previously Setting New Rocket Reusability Record Compared to SpaceX's Starlink satellite launches, which typically see the Falcon 9's […]
After it shipped its first and second stage rockets to the launch site earlier this week, SpaceX successfully tested all six engines on its Starship second stage rocket in the evening yesterday. SpaceX is developing the Starship rocket in Boca Chica, Texas, and the ambition of the project is to make the rocket the largest of its kind in history. The second stage Starship is also the only rocket of its kind that is designed to be fully reusable apart from its heatshield tiles. It is also a part of NASA's Artemis program that plans to land the first humans […]
After an excitement filled orbital test flight in November, SpaceX is in no mood to wait as it is already transporting its rockets to the launch site. SpaceX's rocket complex in Boca Chica, Texas, dubbed Starbase, features production, launch and test sites. Footage from local media shows that a Starship rocket booster and a second stage spacracraft have made their way to the launch site, with SpaceX celebrating the holiday season by decorating their transporters. While simply moving a rocket to a launch site is not indicative of any potential tests, it shows confidence in the vehicles and leaves the […]
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service faced a setback yesterday after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) upheld its order to cancel roughly $900 million in subsidies that Starlink had won to provide internet access in underserved areas. Starlink, which operates the world's largest satellite internet constellation, has faced a lot of resistance and trouble at the FCC, with multiple rivals questioning SpaceX's plans to build out the second phase of the constellation with the Starship rocket. These plans were also at the heart of the FCC's latest order, as the Commission cited Starship test flight failures to reject SpaceX's subsidy application. […]
In a widely anticipated teleconference, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson unsurprisingly extended the dates for the space agency's first two crewed missions to the Moon since the Apollo program. NASA's Artemis program launched its first successful mission in 2022, and Artemis 2 was initially planned to take to the skies this year by flying a crew around the Moon. Artemis 3 was scheduled to take off a year later and work in tandem with SpaceX's Starship rocket. Now, NASA has delayed Artemis 2 and 3 by a year. However, the Artemis 4 mission is on track for a launch no earlier […]
After a busy day at Starbase, Texas, SpaceX has officially shared details about the latest leg of its Starship test campaign. The company conducted engine tests of the first and second-stage Starship boosters earlier today, and each of these was intended to demonstrate specific outcomes. Specifically, SpaceX's second-stage Starship is increasingly tilting some of its tests to demonstrate capabilities that might be required to conduct a safe orbital journey. NASA has contracted SpaceX to provide the Artemis Moon mission lunar lander, and SpaceX shared on X earlier today that the second stage tested the ability of its engine to start […]
True to form, SpaceX is continuing to test its Starship rockets in Texas after it completed a record setting 96 missions to space late night yesterday. Friday has been a busy day at SpaceX's facilities in Boca Chica, Texas as the firm has fired up the engines for both stages of its Starship rocket system. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and the close of 2023 is seeing SpaceX move fast towards its third orbital test flight amidst chances that the upcoming test might also be the first that sees Starship attempt to deploy a payload to space. SpaceX Fires […]
With the year ending, SpaceX is in no mood to slow down its progress towards the highly anticipated third Starship integrated test flight. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and to date, SpaceX has tested several upper-stage spacecraft and two Super Heavy boosters in flight tests. SpaceX's second Starship fully integrated test flight took place in November, and it followed months of anticipation as the firm waited on government agencies to clear its pad for future tests. Now, it looks like the third Starship test will take place much sooner than the second test did, as SpaceX has tested the […]
SpaceX's general manager for Starbase, Kathy Leuders, outlined in a presentation given earlier this month that the firm is planning to increase its Starship launch cadence from Texas rapidly. This process will involve SpaceX and the FAA working together on multiple licensing applications simultaneously, according to Ms. Leuders. Her presentation shared that SpaceX is rapidly expanding its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, and will soon build a rocket manufacturing factory called Starfactory. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and SpaceX's plans for it range from interplanetary missions going as far as Mars to conducting point-to-point flights on Earth. SpaceX Sheds […]
With six days left to go before the year ends, SpaceX has now launched 94 rockets since January after launching a radar reconnaissance satellite for the German Ministry of Defence. The launch marked SpaceX's 182nd consecutive landing of an orbital class rocket booster through its workhorse Falcon 9 medium-lift rocket. After today's launch, the next one SpaceX's manifest is of three Falcon 9s bulked together as part of the Falcon Heavy System. SpaceX Flies Falcon 9 Rocket Booster For 8th Time After Previously Setting New Rocket Reusability Record Compared to SpaceX's Starlink satellite launches, which typically see the Falcon 9's […]
After it shipped its first and second stage rockets to the launch site earlier this week, SpaceX successfully tested all six engines on its Starship second stage rocket in the evening yesterday. SpaceX is developing the Starship rocket in Boca Chica, Texas, and the ambition of the project is to make the rocket the largest of its kind in history. The second stage Starship is also the only rocket of its kind that is designed to be fully reusable apart from its heatshield tiles. It is also a part of NASA's Artemis program that plans to land the first humans […]
After an excitement filled orbital test flight in November, SpaceX is in no mood to wait as it is already transporting its rockets to the launch site. SpaceX's rocket complex in Boca Chica, Texas, dubbed Starbase, features production, launch and test sites. Footage from local media shows that a Starship rocket booster and a second stage spacracraft have made their way to the launch site, with SpaceX celebrating the holiday season by decorating their transporters. While simply moving a rocket to a launch site is not indicative of any potential tests, it shows confidence in the vehicles and leaves the […]
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service faced a setback yesterday after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) upheld its order to cancel roughly $900 million in subsidies that Starlink had won to provide internet access in underserved areas. Starlink, which operates the world's largest satellite internet constellation, has faced a lot of resistance and trouble at the FCC, with multiple rivals questioning SpaceX's plans to build out the second phase of the constellation with the Starship rocket. These plans were also at the heart of the FCC's latest order, as the Commission cited Starship test flight failures to reject SpaceX's subsidy application. […]