NASA's Artemis II flight, which is set to take four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, successfully launched on Wednesday evening.The Artemis II mission, part of NASA's Artemis program that's intended to bring humans back onto the Moon as early as 2028, will bring the four astronauts in orbit around the Moon on the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen, will make the trip aboard the Orion crew capsule, and the full mission is expected to be a 10-day journey. The mission was delayed in February …Read the full story at The Verge.

Expensive HDMI cables, whether they're gold-plated or fiber optic, are often a waste of money and little more than elaborate marketing schemes designed to make you think you need to shell out extra cash for a top-tier, reliable connectivity experience.

Whatever your feelings about AI-coding are, it's not going away any time soon. Whether you're self-hosting a local LLM or using the heft of cloud-based models, they all work better when used by a harness. That's a software stack that wraps around the LLM, handling tool calls, memory, and file usage. It's not that far off an IDE in practice, and most AI-first coding tools are harnesses, whether it's Claude Code, OpenCode, or my current favorite, Pi.

Over the past few months, the automation that switches off my Philips Hue lights in my bedroom has been failing. Every time I had to pull out the Home Assistant app on my phone to toggle them off. Even that didn’t work, and it led me to restart Home Assistant. I unplug and replug the Zigbee coordinator to the Raspberry Pi 4 to work as the Home Assistant machine.

I'd like to say I've traveled extensively with over a hundred countries under my belt. And the one piece of advice I give to everyone is, don't overcomplicate travel. You might want to bookmark a few must-visit locations, perhaps have a rough itinerary for the day, but I encourage everyone to figure it out on the go. But there are a few countries that break that norm. I've been planning a short getaway to Paris, and despite this being my fifth trip over, I can confirm that there's just way too much packed in that city. Every arrondissement has something interesting to see, and every time I'm over, I'm left juggling maps, pins, screenshots, and notes with no real structure to them. Let's just say that it's a problem.

On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order banning birthright citizenship. Justices seemed skeptical of the administration's argument, but by taking up birthright citizenship at all, they showed how much ground nativists have gained since Trump's first term. The 14th Amendment is quite clear: "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Trump seeks to overturn this and create a new, effectively stateless American underclas …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve spent a long time trying to build the perfect media center at home. I wanted a setup that lets me access everything on my TV without compromises. In practice, it never really worked that way. For a while, I used an old laptop as my media center, and in many ways, it was the closest I got.

Recently, in a unexpected yet long overdue move, Microsoft announced its plans to undergo major changes in Windows 11 in order to regain user trust and deliver the experience fans have been asking for. It's a legitimately great step in the right direction, and it's great to see Microsoft directly address people's feedback for once.

As a starry-eyed teenager, I was quite wonderstruck by Adobe’s premium application suite. After all, the neat UIs, rock-solid features, and interoperability between different tools made it hard not to love Adobe’s offerings. But the deeper I dove into the FOSS landscape, the more glaring Adobe’s flaws seemed to become. Getting rid of lifetime licenses and forcing their clientele to adopt subscription-based tools was already a massive red flag, and the enshittified tools drove the nail even further.

NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft rest on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 31, 2026, ahead of the crewed lunar mission. | Image: AFP via Getty Images With NASA planning to launch four astronauts on Wednesday on its Artemis II mission, the race to return to the Moon is back on. The current mission will see astronauts aboard the Orion capsule travel around the Moon before returning to Earth in 10 days' time. They'll be testing out the hardware and systems that could soon see Americans standing on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years in the Artemis IV mission scheduled for 2028. NASA isn't ready to land people on the Moon just yet, but that's the aim for the next five years: to not only get people onto the Moon but establish a lengthy human presence on its surface.That's NASA' …Read the full story at The Verge.

The vast majority of people buy or build a PC, boot straight into Windows, and start using it immediately, under the impression that they're getting the performance promised to them by the reviews and specs they researched before purchasing. The truth is, a lot of what allows your PC to run to its full performance potential lies in the BIOS, the firmware that sits beneath your OS.

If you're the kind of person who spends well over $1,000 on high-end GPUs, you probably expect a massive jump in performance across every game you play after each upgrade. I mean, that's the whole point of splurging on something like the RTX 4090 or 5090, isn't it? You're not just chasing higher frame rates; you're also expecting your games to feel smoother and more responsive, especially if you're gaming on a 240Hz or 360Hz monitor. But if you've ever upgraded your GPU only to be underwhelmed by the FPS uplift, you're not alone.