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Engineering students at the University of Southern California (USC) have dramatically surpassed a 20-year-old world record for the highest altitude reached by an amateur rocket. Called Aftershock II, the suborbital spacecraft reached 470,000 feet in October, smashing the previous record by a whopping 90,000 feet.Aftershock II comes from the Rocket …

Every so often, a mysterious so-called “guest star” appears in the sky, often far outstripping its cousins in brightness. Astronomers and stargazers have known about such events since at least 185 AD and possibly for thousands of years before; in 1054, Chinese astronomers marked the appearance of a “guest star” …

If you’re assembling your dream machine for a winter of PC gaming, it all starts with a graphics card. Even though AI server farms are buying up chips at breakneck speeds, it’s not being reflected in GPU prices quite yet. Although graphics cards are still one of the costliest parts …

The Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet (2023 model) is now available at a big discount. It is priced at $74.99, down from its MSRP of $139.99. That means you’ll be saving a big 46% on this deal, which is almost half of its listed price.This 10.1″ tablet has a full …

The global foundry market is currently dominated by TSMC, which handles all the chip business from the world’s top tech companies, including Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and many others. Samsung and Intel have foundry operations that compete with TSMC, too, but neither company will soon encroach on TSMC’s turf. However, …

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted something steamy. No, not that kind of steamy. Using its spectroscopic instruments, the observatory has found evidence that a distant exoplanet’s atmosphere could be chock-full of water in its gaseous state. If Webb is on the right track, its findings will represent the …

According to a recent announcement by Louis Lee, head of OnePlus China, OnePlus is preparing to unveil its latest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 13, in China this month, as posted by TechRadar. The device is expected to feature the latest Snapdragon processor and up to 24GB of RAM, 8GB more …

An important part of a smart home is security. Being able to monitor your interiors and exteriors, and route alerts through your smart screens and speakers to notify you if anything’s amiss, is essential. Prices have been dropping steadily on cameras from high-end brands with great reviews, and Amazon in …

There are a number of places in the massive system of tubes that is the Internet where things can slow down, but you only have control over one of them: your home network. If your streaming and gaming have been lagging lately, it might be time for a hardware upgrade. …

October isn’t a prime month for sales, but we were surprised to see some additional price drops on well-reviewed prebuilt gaming PCs at the start of the month. Retailers and manufacturers are gearing up for Amazon’s big sales event, and even though chip costs are spiking there’s still inventory to …