Image: NASA NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS).According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich, “As we got more and more data over the summer and understood the uncertainty of that data, it became very clear to us that the best course of action was to return Starliner uncrewed.” He said NASA found “there was just just too much uncertainty in the prediction of the thrusters.” “If we had a way to actually predict what the thrusters would do, for the undock, and all the way through the de-orbit burn, and through the separation sequence, I... Continue reading…

If you arent familiar with them, hypervisors are incredible tools that let you run virtual instances of actual operating systems. Whereas the more powerful hypervisors like Proxmox and ESXi have to be installed on top of the bare hardware, their Type-2 counterparts are far more accessible as they can be set up without wiping out your operating system.

Illustration: The Verge Android users participating in a pilot program can now add their California driver’s licenses to Google Wallet. The “mobile driver’s license” program is currently open to 1.5 million Californians, and previously only allowed digital IDs in the state’s “CA DMV Wallet” app for iOS and Android.“It’s never been easier to keep a digital driver’s license and identification card in California,” said Governor Gavin Newsom in a statement yesterday, “The state continues to work to offer convenience for those opting into the mobile driver’s license program, now with the option of using Google Wallet.”California announced earlier this month that it will also allow Apple Wallet digital IDs soon. Those in the pilot will still have to carry their... Continue reading…

Image: Canoo EV startup Canoo has lost co-founder and chief technology officer Sohel Merchant and is moving its operations out of Los Angeles, according to two reports from TechCrunch this week, citing unnamed sources.Merchant took over the CTO position in 2021, when the company’s CTO left, along with two other co-founders. One of those who remained, chief designer Richard Kim, departed last year. With Merchant now reportedly gone, chief engineer Christoph Kuttner is the last founder standing at Canoo, according to TechCrunch yesterday. Canoo wrote in a quarterly SEC filing on August 14th that it was “permanently” dropping its headcount as part of a reorganization plan for its Torrance, California facility, and offering to move “approximately 137”... Continue reading…

Image: Pokémon A new all-Pokémon FAST channel is bringing the first 22 seasons of the original Pokémon anime, courtesy of Canadian distributor WildBrain. The channel will kick off its availability in the US, with Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand to follow, according to WildBrain’s announcement this week.Melissa Pearce, senior director of media licensing at The Pokémon Company International, called FAST TV is “an ideal platform” to connect with audiences and offer “accessible and curated content in a family-friendly environment.” WildBrain distributes other ad-supported channels that include properties like Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and Inspector Gadget, and its channels exist on platforms like Tubi and Pluto. The announcement... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is reportedly in custody after being arrested near Paris Saturday evening as he was departing his private jet. The billionaire was apprehended on a warrant related to a preliminary investigation, writes Reuters.French authorities believe that the platform’s lack of moderation has “allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.” Durov will go before a judge tonight and could be indicted as early as Sunday, according to TF1 (which we read using Google Translate), one of two French outlets cited by Reuters.Telegram has become a critical resource as people turn to it to find crucial information in places where heavy information censorship is common, such as Russia. But Durov’s preference for... Continue reading…

The Era 100 might resemble a roll of paper towels, but it remains our default smart speaker. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos’ Labor Day sale is bringing discounts to a variety of smart speakers and soundbars until September 2nd, many of which are on sale elsewhere for the same price. Both the Sonos Era 100 and portable Move 2 are 20 percent off, which means you can get the Era 100 from Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos for $199 ($50 off) or the Move 2 for $359 ($90 off) via the same retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos).The Era 100 is an easy recommendation for a Sonos-connected Wi-Fi speaker, regardless of where you’d like to put it in your house. It’s compact enough to fit in most places but offers robust volume and quality sound, which gives your music some depth without getting too bassy. The Move 2, on the other hand, is kind of like an Era 100 that... Continue reading…

We got game emulators in the app store, as a treat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it’s not fair.They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators, not like, regular regulators. Third-party app stores, the ability for browsers to run their own engines, Fortnite, and now the ability to replace lots of default apps? I want it, too! Imagine if Chrome on iOS wasn’t just a rinky dink little Safari emulator! Imagine downloading a new dialer app with a soundboard of fart sounds and setting it as your default! Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t seem interested in sharing these possibilities with everyone.Sure, we got retro game emulators in the app store. And that rules. But that’s only because... Continue reading…

Windows 11 changed a lot in terms of the overall design and user experience. However, many settings and features hidden behind the Control Panel still work the same way. For example, the hibernate mode still works the same as it did in Windows 10. It's a power-saving feature similar to sleep mode, but it extends battery life further by saving your system state into a file on your hard drive or SSD.

Jellyfin and Plex Media Server are two options for cataloging all your media to stream it to supported hardware. Plex is the more popular option and is heavily marketed to consumers but Jellyfin is making waves in the self-hosted community. Both have advantages and drawbacks, but I'll show you some ways Jellyfin is the better media streaming platform.

If you have a lot of stray cats in your neighborhood, you may want a little help logging the adventures of each and every single one. Fortunately, where humans fall short, technology is not far behind. Someone has created a Raspberry Pi project that keeps an eye on your back garden and alerts you when you see a cat - or scares away any birds that it spots.

Microsoft Excel is a go-to solution for professionals and businesses to crunch numbers and create insightful charts, data analysis, and data visualization. If you are new to Excel, the softwares endless menu and formulas can initially seem overwhelming. In this post, we will walk you through some of the must-know Excel functions to make tackling your everyday Excel tasks a breeze.