In 2016 the tiny European country of Luxembourg announced an ambitious initiative to mine asteroids and other near-Earth objects (NEOs) for rare minerals. It wasn’t the country’s first foray into space—in the 1980s it launched some of the first European satellites—but the NEO mining plan represented a bold step for a country with the population…

I take my espresso seriously. I put myself through college making espresso for others and I even married my favorite barista. It's been a while now since either my wife or I had access to the kind of expensive Italian-made espresso machines you find in nice coffee shops, but thanks to the world of portable…

On August 30, 2017, a video appeared online showing footage of every satellite operator’s worst nightmare: an anomaly. It’s the word space types use when they mean a bad thing, especially one they perhaps don’t understand and may want to downplay.In the video, an orb—a satellite known as Telkom-1—hovers in the center of the frame…

For almost a decade, Jetflicks offered one of the best streaming deals out there. For $9.99 a month—less, if prepaid for a longer increment of time—subscribers could access popular shows from across all the major networks and streaming platforms, commercial-free, as soon as the day after they aired. It was like having Netflix, Hulu, Amazon…

If federal prosecutors successfully prosecute Anthony Levandowski for 33 federal charges of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, the self-driving engineer could face millions in fines and decades in prison. The accusations aren’t new—they rehash the core of Waymo’s civil case against Uber, which settled in February 2018—but their resurfacing in this format threatens…

In January of this year, at the annual multithousand-square-foot madhouse of consumer electronics in Las Vegas, manufacturers started slipping a new claim into their spec sheets: Supports Wi-Fi 6. New laptops and routers from HP, Dell, Asus—they would all support this new standard. The following month, when Samsung revealed its Galaxy S10 smartphone, it listed…

On Tuesday, engineer and self-driving pioneer Anthony Levandowski entered a San Jose courtroom sans tie to plead “not guilty” to 33 charges of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets. Exactly 564 days earlier, his former employers Uber and Waymo reached a $245 million settlement in a lawsuit over the same alleged actions that have…

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Invites for the next big Apple event have just landed in press mailboxes everywhere, confirming the rumored September 10 date. Invites for the event, which is set for Steves Jobs…

In a mid-season episode of David Makes Man, the new Oprah Winfrey Network drama that explores the emotional volume of black teenhood and the gnawing effects of trauma, lead character David (Akili McDowell) encounters calamity. When friends from competing worlds meet on the night of the school dance—two classmates are introduced to David's date, a…