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Over the past weekend, millions of people around the world learned the name of the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike—not for preventing PC armageddon, but for causing it. CrowdStrike famously pushed a faulty update to enterprise Windows machines early Friday morning, causing millions of PCs to get stuck in a blue screen …

Our efforts to find hints of extraterrestrial life have been focused on Mars, but an increasing number of scientists are turning to Venus as a potential home for alien organisms. At a recent meeting of astronomers in the UK, two separate teams presented evidence for potential biosignatures in the clouds …

It’s only a matter of time before a large asteroid hits Earth—it’s happened before, and it will happen again. The more we know about asteroids, the more likely it is that humanity could do something about it, though. The European Space Agency (ESA) has just kicked off a new project …

DVDs were the main source for watching movies at home not too long ago. For too many of us, massive collections of DVDs have been collecting dust in our cabinets and living rooms for what’s starting to turn into decades. To preserve those movies and make them easier to watch …

Summer gaming season is here, with tons of top new titles hitting the stores. If your current desktop doesn’t have the juice to handle them, there’s no better time than the present to upgrade. We’ve been hunting down bargains on every tier of gaming PCs, from entry-level prebuilts to AI-ready …

A defunct Russian satellite broke up this week, sending a cloud of dangerous debris zipping around Earth. Skywatchers identified more than 100 pieces of space junk spreading out from the satellite’s former location, causing astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter in various spacecraft, including the troubled Boeing …

It’s a sad day for computer enthusiasts the world over, as the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle has announced it’s closing for good and will never reopen. The museum previously shut down due to COVID-19, and it’s now been confirmed it will not reopen. The museum was started …

It’s a busy time aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which usually hosts a crew of seven astronauts. With the extended Starliner demo flight, the count is up to nine with Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. NASA was happy to have the help as it planned a pair of spacewalks …

AMD announced revamped Zen 5 processors at Computex in May for desktop and mobile, but they won’t launch until July. Ahead of their auspicious debut, we now have our first deep dive into Zen 5 mobile, and it verifies AMD’s claim of an IPC (instructions per clock) gain over Zen …

Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft was supposed to have returned to Earth weeks ago, but it’s still at the International Space Station (ISS), along with its crew. And that’s not changing anytime soon. NASA has announced that Starliner’s return flight has been delayed again until an unspecified date in July, giving …