NASA will take a step closer to restoring the United States’ space exploration capabilities in less than a week. The organization has given SpaceX the green light to launch a test flight to the International Space Station for the first unmanned test of the Crew Dragon capsule. The seven-seat …

  Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe successfully met the surface of the asteroid Ryugu last week. While it was there, it fired a small bullet into the surface to (hopefully) collect a sample. The probed backed away after making its attack run, but it appears Ryugu has been changed by the …

  Mobile World Congress is this week and Intel has a number of announcements around 5G and its associated technologies. The company wants to avoid the problems it encountered in the LTE space, when its devices were late to market and Qualcomm had already largely locked up the space. “Where …

  AMD’s integrated graphics are generally better than Intel’s. The discrepancy has existed since at least as far back as the nForce 2 chipset, and while the particulars have varied (Intel’s Crystal Well on-die EDRAM gave it better absolute performance at times, albeit at much higher prices), the end result …

  Smartphone users prize battery life. Smartphone manufacturers prize finding ways to drain batteries more quickly. Into this gap steps the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop. It’s roughly 3 to 3.5 iPhones thick, with an 18,000mAh battery and it comes with a handy strap for bludgeoning people to death. Alright, …

  HTC has been losing money hand over fist for several years, and it’s looking for a new hook. Could cryptocurrency be the answer? That probably seemed like a safe bet when HTC started development of the Exodus 1 blockchain phone, but the crypto market is somewhat less vigorous now. …

  What seemed like plenty of storage space a few years ago is never enough in the here and now. That’s why the companies making computers, phones, and other gadgets are always rushing to pack in more and more bytes. Now, you can add an unprecedented amount of storage to …

If you’ve ever tried to travel around the continent on an African visa, you know that it can be quite confusing. From having to contact embassies in third countries to obtuse rules at customs. A few years back when I was backpacking through Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin, …

BARCELONA (Reuters) – China’s Xiaomi has launched its contribution to a new wave of smartphones that will be able to take advantage of faster 5G mobile networks at a lower price than analysts expect from rivals such as Samsung. A person checks out the new Xiaomi Mi 9 mobile phone …

Scientist in South Africa have discovered a new species of widow spider and they reckon it could be the biggest in the world. May I be the first person to say on behalf of all arachnophobes, nope. The Phinda button spider is the first new species of widow spider to …