The Last Images From Doomed Space Probes
Venus, in all its stinking hot glory.Image: USSR Academy of Sciences / Brown University Decades before the other missions on this list, the USSR launched a series of probes to…
Meta Quest 3 Review: Huge Hardware Bump, But Who’s It For?
A short demo called First Encounters shows off MR’s potential and guides users through setting up their space for MR (not dramatically different from drawing a VR boundary on the…
Meet Tatiana Maslany’s Characters From Invincible Season 2
The first trailer for Invincible season two packed in so much news, watching it felt like being punched by a superhero. So many new actors are joining the show it’s,…
New Survey Ranks Max as Most Satisfactory Streaming Service
Our Flag Means Death season two premiered October 5.Photo: Nicola Dove/Max Congrats, ye hearties: a new survey polling over 2,000 streaming customers has found that Max—home of popular series like…
Our Flag Means Death Season 2 Is Leaning Into the Ed/Stede/Izzy Triangle
Photo: Nicola Dove/Max It’s undeniable that in HBO Max’s pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, Edward Teach (Taika Waititi) and Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) are in love with each other.…
PLD Space launches Europe’s first private rocket — and it’s reusable
Spanish startup PLD Space successfully blasted the first-ever private European rocket into orbit on Saturday, in a potential turning point for the continent’s struggling space industry. The first launch of…
UK’s first exascale supercomputer project goes to Edinburgh
The UK today said it had selected Edinburgh to host its first exascale next-gen supercomputer, which will be 50 times faster than its current highest capacity system.The University of Edinburgh…
The Eyes of Ahsoka, Ranked
Image: Lucasfilm Sure, Huyang isn’t an organic being. But I think he deserves a special shoutout—a crowning shoutout, in fact—if we’re talking about eyes in Ahsoka because the show did…
Start Making Physical Photo Albums (2023)
When I was a kid, my siblings and I would dig out my parents’ photos every few months, flipping through albums from their wedding, our childhoods, and even their yearbooks.…
‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Is Built on AI and Video Games—Shouldn’t the Movie Be More Fun?
It thunks especially hard precisely because Korine has, in the past, proven himself a totally canny, capable provocateur, whose work more truthfully reflected the respective spirits of their age. Trash…