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This week, Microsoft released PowerToys 0.94, a feature-packed utility suite for Windows 11 “power users.” The first big change is a search box inside the Settings menu, allowing users to type inexact search terms. Results appear as suggestions in a flyout menu with the option to open a single option …

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already captured some incredible images of our universe, with some game-changing insights to boot. But researchers at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute believe the observatory would be capable of even more if it had been designed differently. Published Sunday in Frontiers in Astronomy …

The ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which launched in April 2023, has completed another successful flyby aimed at boosting its speed ahead of a Jupiter orbital insertion sometime in 2031. This latest flyby saw it come close enough to Venus that it had to turn off many of its …

It wasn’t so long ago that exoplanets were technically only hypothesized and had never been directly observed. Today, it seems like every other week produces an amazing new observation and an exciting new insight.This week’s breakthrough comes from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, used by a team from Ireland’s …

Quantum technology is a uniquely poor fit for biology. It requires extreme precision and clean environments free of interference, which couldn’t be further from the environment inside a living cell. Scientists have trouble maintaining the state of a qubit inside enormous, shielded quantum devices, but now researchers from the University …

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has revealed that China will soon have home-grown “next generation” chips for AI systems, which raises the question of whether the country has achieved a big breakthrough in building its own technology stack.  The statement came in a short note on the company’s official WeChat account, where …

Microsoft is looking at making Xbox Cloud Gaming more affordable with a potential new offering that could lower the cost for users. Access to Xbox Cloud Gaming is only currently possible through the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, priced at $19.99 per month. But Jason Ronald, Microsoft’s VP of next …

Microsoft is urging Windows 11 users to ignore error messages that appear following the installation of the July 2025 preview update and the August 2025 security update. The company says these issues are logged in Event Viewer under Error ID 57 and contain a warning that the “Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic …

AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited proposal to purchase Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion in cash, according to a company spokesperson. The bid comes after growing regulatory pressure on Google, with a federal judge previously ruling that the company holds an illegal monopoly in internet search. The U.S. …

SpaceX has had a troubled year when it comes to Starship, with several notably explosive test flights. But that hasn’t stopped customers queuing up to pay for passage for when it is ready. The Italian Space Agency has become the first Starship customer, signing a deal to secure a spot …