Launched in 1999, SETI@home turned the search for extraterrestrial intelligence into a global phenomenon by allowing
In remarks this week to a Texas space organization, a key Senate staff member said an “extension” of the International Space Station is on the table and that NASA needs to accelerate a program to replace the aging station with commercial alternatives.
Maddy Davis, a space policy staff member for US Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made the comments to the Texas Space Coalition during a virtual event.
Cruz is chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and has an outsized say in space policy. As a senator from Texas, he has a parochial interest in Johnson Space Center, where the International Space Station Program is led.
A new teaser and datamined voice lines all point to fire-bending hero Anran
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Version
14.0 of the Forgejo software forge has been released. Notable
changes in this release include several database
improvements, new options for approving
actions execution from pull requests, a new
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Mentra will soon start shipping its first smart glasses, the Mentra Live. At first glance, there’s nothing obvious setting Mentra’s glasses apart from its more well-known competitors, but they come with their own dedicated app store, and employ an open-source OS with an SDK that developers have had access to since early 2025.
Mentra says the MiniApp Store is the first app store of its nature for smart glasses, and it will be available to iOS and Android users through the Mentra app. It might be a bit of a reach to call it the smartphone-ification of smart glasses at this early stage, but that seems to be Mentra’s aim. Apps might do something as simple as saving hand-written notes on the fly, but a more specific example is “Chess Cheater,” which will use the front-facing camera and AI to analyze your position and literally whisper a suggested next move to you.
As for the glasses themselves, they’re powered by a Mediatek MTK8766 chipset and feature a 12-megapixel camera with a 119-degree FOV. There are three microphones and built-in stereo speakers. The front-facing camera also does HD video, with livestreaming functionality supported to the likes of X, YouTube, Twitch and Instagram. You can also listen to music and take calls from WhatsApp, FaceTime and any other calling app you might use.
At 43 grams, Mentra says its specs are among the lightest smart glasses you can buy, while battery life is said to be more than 12 hours, with 50+ hours of additional charge stored in the 2,200mAh charging case. The Mentra Live smart glasses are prescription-ready and cost $299. 1,000 pairs were made available for the first batch, which will ship on February 15. Batch two will include a limited amount of glasses available to ship on February 28th.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/wearables/mentras-first-smart-glasses-are-open-source-and-come-with-their-own-app-store-150021126.html?src=rss
During CES 2026, Samsung unveiled plenty of new TVs, monitors and other hardware. However, the company is also looking to expand further into video games and has announced a significant refresh to its Gaming Hub on smartphones.
Engadget spoke with Samsung’s Jong Woo, VP of Game Services, who explained that the update will offer more personalized, faster ways to play and place greater emphasis on up-and-coming titles. Now available on Galaxy devices, with further updates planned, the new hub wants to be a more active space for the latest mobile games.
“We believe that gamers want to find new content that is personalized to them,” said the VP of Samsung Games Services. He continued: “We want to bring content to users and make it immediately available for them to play. We have instant plays where, through our cloud streaming technology, we can take Android-native games and put them in the cloud, so that when users want to try them, they don’t have to go through the friction of downloading them first.”
According to Samsung, the mobile Gaming Hub attracts over 160 million users across smartphones and other devices. However, the VP of Game Services at Samsung believes that, despite the vast library of games across many genres available to mobile users, “mobile game discovery is broken.”
Initially, the mobile Gaming Hub was a supplemental app for all purchased games, allowing users to track their collection. With this update, all games purchased from both Google Play and the Galaxy Store are stored in the Gaming Hub. It’s designed to be a single place for players to view their owned games, find recommendations, access cloud streaming for select games and even watch highlights from content creators.
According to Woo, the larger goal of the new Samsung mobile Gaming Hub is to personalize and guide the mobile gaming experience for players, which has remained nebulous compared with gaming discovery experiences on PC and consoles.
“We’re getting a lot of feedback from the users, a lot of it from focus testing and beta testing, and what we’re finding is that we believe we are solving pain points for mobile gamers,” said Woo about rebuilding the Gaming Hub. “We’re getting an idea of gamer preferences at the individual, personalized level. Based on all of that, we’re able to provide different types of recommendations.”
Another reason for the new changes to the Samsung Gaming Hub was to help foster a community for mobile gamers, including players and developers. In addition to sharing YouTube videos and content from gaming creators and streamers, the company plans to add more social elements to the Gaming Hub to make mobile gaming feel more active and less isolating.
“Mobile is a very personal experience, right? It’s your personal device, and oftentimes when you play games on mobile, it feels like a solitary experience,” said Woo. Currently, the revamped Mobile Gaming Hub is only available for Galaxy smartphones and tablets. Users on non-Galaxy devices will still use the previous version of the Gaming Hub, for now.
Compared with PC and console online hubs like Steam and PlayStation Network, it’s clear that mobile platforms are still figuring out how to create an equally compelling space for engagement. Even with the vast user base, mobile game hubs tend to be a go-between for users to get to the products. There’s more work to do, but the new Gaming Hub could be the first step in the right direction.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/samsung-refreshed-mobile-gaming-hub-150010632.html?src=rss
If you have Verizon, yesterday might have been a bit chaotic. The wireless carrier’s coverage was down for large swaths of the country for much of the day, leading to confusion, frustration, and, for some, conspiracy theories. I saw some users on X post cryptic messages like “This is how it starts,” and “These are the end times.” It’s good to know in times of service disruption, we can all keep a level head.
But despite claims to the contrary, the world didn’t end yesterday, and Verizon fixed the issue. The company issued a statement at 10:20 p.m. ET, confirming the outage had been resolved, and that Verizon would contact affected customers directly to issue account credits. While that doesn’t necessarily make up for a full day of network downtime, at least Verizon users can get back online and make calls when not connected to wifi.
But some customers out there aren’t back to normal. In fact, they’re still seeing the same “SOS” alert on their phones they saw yesterday. For these users, the outage is very much still happening, as they cannot access the internet or communicate with others without either going through satellite connectivity, or finding a wifi connection. When you need to be out and about, especially on the road, that isn’t an option.
Luckily, there’s a simple solution here, one that Verizon shared in its post about the outage’s resolution: restart your phone. It doesn’t matter if you already restarted your phone yesterday during the outage: In order to see results, you’ll need to power off your phone and turn it back on after Verizon implemented its fix.
Different smartphones have different restart methods, but here are some tips for the most popular models:
Restarting an iPhone: Press and hold one of the volume buttons together with the side (power) button, until you see the power-off slider. Slide to power off, then wait for the screen to go totally black. After about 30 seconds, you can press and hold the side button to power it back on. Note: If your iPhone has a Home button, you can simply press and hold the side button to pull up the power-off slider.
Restarting a Samsung Galaxy: Press and hold the volume down button and side button until you see power options appear. Here, choose “Restart,” then tap “Restart” again.
Restarting a Pixel: If you have a Pixel 6 or newer, press and hold the volume up button and side button for a few seconds, then tap “Restart” when it appears. If you have a Pixel 5 or older, simply hold the side button until the phone restarts.
If your phone model isn’t listed here, you can search the internet for specific instructions on how to restart it. Typically, though, the process involves holding both the side button and one of the volume buttons.
ENVE has announced the release of its new AR40 wheelset, the latest addition to the value-focused Foundation line-up.
Featuring 40mm-deep and 32.2mm-wide carbon rims, the Foundation AR40 wheelset features hookless rims and is designed to work across road, all-road and gravel bikes.
According to the American brand, the Foundation AR40 wheelset “borrows” from knowledge gleaned during the development of ENVE’s pricier wheelsets, and is claimed to be more aerodynamic than Reserve’s 42|49 wheelset with a 29mm tyre.
Priced at £1,800 / $1,500 / €1,649 and claimed to weigh 1,515g, ENVE says it “represents the highest quality wheelset on the market” at its price.
Despite jumping on board the ‘mini-hook rims’ bandwagon last year, with its SES 4.5 Pro wheelset (as used by Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France and beyond), ENVE says it still believes in hookless rims when optimising for tubeless tyres.
Rather than citing potential cost savings, ENVE says using a hookless profile “allows the rim’s critical tolerance at the bead seat diameter to be both consistent and accurate”, which helps “deliver a safer and more reliable tubeless system”.
As with other hookless rims, this means the Foundation AR40 wheels are only compatible with tubeless tyres between 27 and 50mm wide, and ENVE’s spec sheet notes that riders should only use models listed as “Approved/Recommended” on its website.
Beyond this, ENVE says the AR40 rims use its ‘wide hookless bead’ technology, which helps reduce the chance of pinch flats from rock strikes, and its patented moulded spoke holes.
These are said to create a lighter and stronger rim compared to drilled spoke holes because the carbon fibres remain intact and enable them to withstand higher spoke tensions with reduced risk of failure.
The Foundation AR40 wheels are specced with ENVE’s own alloy hubs, with steel bearings and an “oversized 42mm ratchet drive system”. The design prioritises “low maintenance and easy serviceability”, according to the brand.
Although the Foundation AR40 wheelset is optimised for use on road bikes first and foremost, and has been designed around road bike tyres, ENVE says it has been designed to withstand the rigours of riding and racing off-road.
In terms of performance, ENVE says it pitted the Foundation AR40 wheels against its own SES 4.5, 4.5 Pro and 6.7 wheels, as well as Reserve’s 52|63 and 42|49 wheelsets, at the Mercedes-Benz Formula One wind tunnel.
ENVE used its own Melee road bike as a test mule.
With a 29mm tyre, the results show the AR40 wheelset outperforms the pricier SES 4.5 Pro wheelset (£4,100 / $3,750 / €4,499) at 32kph / 20mph, and is competitive with the deeper-rimmed alternatives.
It’s fair to say the increased scale on the Y-axis exaggerates the difference significantly, though, given the actual difference appears to be less than 0.5 watts, and no margin of error is quoted for the figures.
At 48kph / 30mph, the differences are a little clearer and the 4.5 Pro wheelset pulls ahead by around 2.5 watts. The data shows the AR40 wheelset outperforms the Reserve 42|49 (£1,599 with DT Swiss 350 hubs) by a little more than one watt, though.
All things considered, then, these are small margins, but it’s encouraging that the AR40s ought to offer competitive aero performance even when compared to options costing significantly more.
Mondraker has released the Crafty Unlimited Gulf Edition, with a lust-worthy spec and a paintjob that pays tribute to one of the most iconic liveries in motorsport.
Despite the name, the new electric bike is a limited edition and features a hand-painted finish that takes inspiration from the Gulf Oil Porsche Kremer K8.
It’s not the first time the Spanish brand has collaborated with Gulf, with models such as the Neat and Dusty X also featuring special-edition colourways.
The bike is priced at the very top-end, at £14,499 / $15,999 / €13,999, but the spec list goes some way to justifying the price.
It becomes the only bike in the Crafty range to feature Öhlins suspension, with the RXF 38 M.3 fork featuring a silver finish that blends into the rest of the livery.
Elsewhere, the bike features DT Swiss HXC 1200 carbon wheels and Trickstuff’s Maxima brakes, signifying the premium build level of the bike.
This may be the last time we see a Mondraker wearing the Gulf paint scheme, with the brand saying the release of the bike “represents the final chapter in this partnership, embodied in our most advanced and sought-after eMTB”.
There’s only so much that can be said about this beauty, so we’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
Apple’s 2025 MacBook Air gets a $200 price cut, marking its lowest price since launch.
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The FOSS Force Distro of the Week — Origami Linux It’s paper folding time at Distro of the Week. Well, sort of… Actually, we’re looking…
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Al Viro does not often stray outside of the core virtual filesystem area;
when he does, it is usually worthy of note. Recently, he wandered into
memory management with this patch
series to the slab allocator and some of its users. Kernel developers
will often put considerable effort into small optimizations, but it is
still interesting to look at just how much effort has gone toward the purpose of
avoiding a single pointer dereference in some memory-allocation hot paths.
Anthropic’s fourth installment of its Economic Index, drawing on an anonymized sample of two million Claude conversations from November 2025, finds that AI is changing how people work rather than whether they work at all. The study tracked usage across the company’s consumer-facing Claude.ai platform and its API, categorizing interactions as either automation (where AI completes tasks entirely) or augmentation (where humans and AI collaborate). The split came out to 52% augmentation and 45% automation on Claude.ai, a slight shift from January 2025 when augmentation led 55% to 41%.
The share of jobs using AI for at least a quarter of their tasks has risen from 36% in January to 49% across pooled data from multiple reports. Anthropic’s researchers also found that AI delivers its largest productivity gains on complex work requiring college-level education, speeding up those tasks by a factor of 12 compared to 9 for high-school-level work.
Claude completes college-degree tasks successfully 66% of the time versus 70% for simpler work. Computer and mathematical tasks continue to dominate usage, accounting for roughly a third of Claude.ai conversations and nearly half of API traffic.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
IO Interactive raised a few eyebrows last week when it announced the minimum and recommended PC specs for 007 First Light. To run the James Bond adventure at in 1080p at 60 fps, IOI initially said you’d need to have a rig with at least 32GB of RAM and a GPU with 12GB of VRAM. The studio has now revised those numbers and other elements of the specs after “the community flagged some inconsistencies in an earlier version of the listing.”
The developer blamed an “internal miscommunication” which led to it sharing an older version of the specs. One of the recommended GPUs in the original version was an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which has 8GB of VRAM — not enough to meet the supposed recommended VRAM settings.
It seems a little odd to think that it took IOI over a week and an enormous pile of negative press and online reaction before addressing the inconsistency (not to mention the demand for 32GB of RAM for relatively modest 1080p, 60 fps performance). The studio says it updated the specs after “a thorough re-examination and additional testing.”
We are providing today an update to the PC system requirements for 007 First Light after the community flagged some inconsistencies in an earlier version of the listing.
The earlier mistake was due to an internal miscommunication leading to an older version of the specs to be… pic.twitter.com/2M8BBoCjWX
— 007 First Light (@007GameIOI) January 15, 2026
In the recommended hardware section of the latest version, IOI revised down the VRAM from 12GB to 8GB and it halved the RAM requirement to 16GB. IOI also “fixed” the minimum CPU info. The original specs stipulated that gamers would need at least an Intel Core i5 9500K or AMD Ryzen 5 3500. The former has now been revised down to an Intel Core i5 9500K.
For the tape, then, the minimum PC specs to run 007 First Light with a performance target of 1080p at 30 fps are:
Processor: Intel Core I5 9500, AMD Ryzen 5 3500
Memory: 16GB RAM
Video RAM: 6GB
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, AMD RX 5700 or Intel Discrete GPU equivalent
And the recommended specs for a performance target of 1080p at 60 fps are:
Processor: Intel Core I5 13500, AMD Ryzen 5 7600
Memory: 16GM RAM
Video RAM: 8GB
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, AMD RX 6700 XT or Intel Discrete GPU equivalent
The required operating system is the same on both counts with a 64-bit version of Windows 10 or 11. The storage space needed is also the same at 80GB.
IOI apologized for “the confusion” it caused with the mixup. It promised to share more details about 007 First Light ahead of the game’s arrival on May 27 — including details of additional performance targets. Given the way RAM and GPU prices are going, here’s hoping IOI isn’t looking for too much more to run the game at 1440p or 4K at a decent framerate.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/007-first-light-dev-admits-it-messed-up-pc-specs-announcement-143000670.html?src=rss
It’s the first in-character look at the franchise’s latest on-screen adaptation
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Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what Linus Torvalds decides to call it…
US President Donald Trump has announced new tariffs on Nvidia and AMD as part of a novel scheme to enact a deal with the technology giants to take a 25 percent cut of sales of their AI processors to China.
In December, the White House said it would allow Nvidia to start shipping its H200 chips to China, reversing a policy that prohibited the export of advanced AI hardware. However, it demanded a 25 percent cut of the sales.
The new US tariffs on certain chips, announced on Wednesday, were designed to implement these payments and protect the unusual arrangement from legal challenges, according to several industry executives.
The DJI Mini 5 Pr Fly More Combo delivers smooth, stabilized video, long flight time, and a 31% discount that drops the price to $1,099.
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