Starship preps for its fifth flight test. | Photo: SpaceX SpaceX plans to launch Starship for the fifth time tomorrow, October 13th, during a 30-minute launch window that opens at 8AM ET. That’s after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared today that the company has “met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements for the suborbital test flight,” reports Reuters. The company will livestream the launch, starting about 35 minutes before liftoff. You can catch that on SpaceX’s website or its X account, as well as in the X TV app.Watch Starship's fifth flight test https://t.co/LVrCnTv797— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 12, 2024SpaceX’s goal for tomorrow’s flight is to return the Super Heavy booster to its launch site, which hasn’t happened before. It’s shooting for... Continue reading…

Setting up a home office goes beyond just sticking a desk in a corner. Such an arrangement leads to chaos and a lack of productivity. The key is to create an environment that balances focus, creativity, and efficiency. In this post, I will share essential tips to transform any corner of your home into a productivity powerhouse, helping you get work done and achieve a work-life balance in no time.

How's October treating you? With the mercury heading southward, it's time to bust out the sweaters and bring in that crisp fall weather. Fortunately, despite everything cooling down, the news was hot as usual this week, with some really interesting and cool announcements being made. If you missed some of them, don't fret - here are the top five news articles for the past week.

Even the best graphics cards these days aren't just about raw performance features like ray tracing, frame generation, and upscaling techniques are just as important. If you have an Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU, then DLSS (deep learning super sampling) is one of these new techniques you can use to improve your experience. It's an AI-powered upscaling technology that's exclusive to the RTX series, meaning you can't use it on AMD GPUs.

Managing your tasks efficiently is key to staying productive, whether you're juggling personal to-dos or managing a busy work schedule. Microsoft offers two powerful toolsMicrosoft To Do and Outlookthat can help you stay organized and on top of your tasks.

The mouses ergonomic design hasnt changed much over the years, driving gamers and people looking for more comfortable grips on the input device to rely on add-on grips. To help fuel more customization in the feel and ergonomics of a mouse, Charlie Pyott has released open-source plans for the Statial.b, a mouse with adjustable surfaces you can position and lock into place to create a mouse grip style entirely your own.

Ever thought your home network felt sluggish, and you wanted to know what's eating up all your bandwidth? While it could be someone stealing your Wi-Fi, the reason is usually one or more of your devices are hogging the available bandwidth for themselves. These days, there are plenty of tools to check which devices are using more than their share, from programs to inbuilt bandwidth checkers in your operating system or router.

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 56, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Bill Lawrence’s TV shows and the massively powerful crypto lobby and the wild world of plankton, listening to Ed Helms narrate the excellent Snafu podcast, playing an alarming amount of both Balatro and Retro Goal, trying to get back in the habit of making overnight oats, and taking every single one of my phone calls with the excellent mic on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. I also have for you the coolest alarm clock I can remember, a splashy new Bitcoin documentary, a new... Continue reading…

Operating systems have really grown over the past few decades. Old Windows operating systems used to weigh in at the hundreds of megabytes, and now we have Windows 11 taking up 9GB of space for no reason. However, one operating system has gone the other direction and managed to squeeze itself down onto a single floppy disk.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today. This “minimal” update, which he labels a fork of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin, is now called “Secure Custom Fields.”It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to in the post. He writes that he’s “invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines,” in which the WordPress team reserves several rights, including removing a plugin, or changing it “without developer consent.” Mullenweg explains that the move has to do with WP Engine’s recently-filed lawsuit against him and Automattic.Similar situations have happened... Continue reading…

If you're in need of medical help, asking an AI chatbot for advice is not the way to go about it. If you need some convincing on why it's such a bad idea, a recent study into Copilot's medical prowess found it quite lacking. In fact, almost a quarter of the responses it gave could put you in a far worse state than before you took any medicine.

A reverse proxy is a server configured on a local area network (LAN) to direct traffic, primarily web browser requests. It's similar to a proxy server in that client requests are intercepted and handled by the server when connecting to other destinations. It's how proxies (and VPNs) can get around geographical restrictions by routing traffic through different locations. Instead of communicating directly with the end server, traffic is passed through a proxy and the same happens with a reverse proxy, but instead of handling outbound traffic from clients on the LAN, the reverse proxy handles external inbound requests.