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NASA unveiled a detailed concept of operations for the Artemis III moon‑lander test flight on Oct. 23 at Kennedy Space Center. The plan calls for three launch vehicles—Blue Origin’s New Glenn, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and SpaceX’s Starship—to lift off from Florida in a tightly sequenced campaign. New Glenn will first place the Blue Moon lander into low‑Earth orbit, followed by SLS delivering the Orion crew capsule with astronauts Randy Bresnik, Andre Douglas, Frank Rubio and ESA’s Luca Parmitano. After two days [...]

Logitech International announced the launch of “Chain Reaction,” a global program aimed at accelerating decarbonization across its supply chain. The initiative, rolled out with an initial cohort of 17 key suppliers, offers technical workshops, direct access to sustainability experts, and pathways to pilot clean‑energy innovations. It builds on Logitech’s 2026 achievement of a 33 % reduction in Scope 3 emissions versus its 2021 baseline and supports the company’s science‑based target to halve Scope 3 greenhouse‑gas emissions by 2030. Chain Reaction [...]

Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has set a new franchise high on Metacritic, earning an 86 score from 17 critic reviews. The rating surpasses every mainline entry since 2011’s Modern Warfare 3 and tops recent releases such as Black Ops 7 (65) and Modern Warfare II (75). Developed primarily by Infinity Ward with assistance from Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software, the game launched on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2. It features a single‑player campaign set on the [...]

A pair of critical PHP vulnerabilities dubbed “PHP2Shell” were disclosed this week, exposing servers to takeover and data theft. PHP powers roughly 70 % of websites, including major platforms such as WordPress, Yahoo, Etsy and Wikipedia. After the flaws were announced, threat actors rapidly employed AI tools to scan for and exploit the bugs, generating thousands of attempts on Cloudflare’s network within minutes and escalating to millions within hours. The PHP Foundation issued a patch on October 21, but [...]

Prime Video announced that its new reality competition, Fallout Shelter: The Experiment, will debut on 13 January 2027. The launch will drop the first four episodes simultaneously, with subsequent episodes released weekly, and the series will be streamed in more than 240 countries and territories. Produced by Studio Lambert in partnership with Kilter Films, the show is tied to the Fallout franchise and features executive producers Todd Howard and James Altman of Bethesda Game Studios. Contestants will be placed in a simulated Vault‑Tec [...]

Apple’s HomeView offers a dedicated smart‑home controller, but many users find an older iPad can deliver a comparable experience with added flexibility. The author explains how to repurpose a spare iPad—ranging from a 2013 iPad Air to a 2021 M1 iPad Pro—by mounting it with inexpensive plastic brackets and using it as a kitchen hub for recipes, video streaming, and smart‑home control. Key steps include setting up an Apple TV 4K, HomePod, or HomePod mini as the [...]

Block, the company founded by Jack Dorsey, unveiled Dessa, a full‑duplex speech‑to‑speech model that runs on a single NVIDIA GPU. Unlike typical voice AIs that convert speech to text before generating audio, Dessa is trained entirely on human speech and produces laughs, pauses, and even cries without external emotion tags. The model can listen and speak simultaneously, mirroring OpenAI’s GPT‑Live, and is claimed to sound “eerily human” in demos that show varied cadences and emotional states. Block [...]

Google has released a server‑side update that redesigns the Gemini app’s side panel and settings on Android, following similar changes on iOS, macOS and the web with Gemini 4 Argon. The search function now sits in the top‑right corner, and the “New chat” button remains first while “Library” moves up in the list. The panel shows only five recent chats before a “More” option expands the view; AI Ultra subscribers see the full menu, including Images, Scheduled, Daily brief, Customize, [...]