Foxconn will no longer build electric tractors for California startup Monarch Tractor after the Taiwanese tech giant recently sold its Ohio factory to SoftBank. Monarch CEO Praveen Penmetsa confirmed the news in a LinkedIn comment Tuesday. He also said his company worked with Foxconn to “build up inventory” before the sale of the factory, noting his startup has “enough to meet customer demand for … [Read more...]

Sony just announced some new additions to the PS Plus Game Catalog for August and it's a pretty beefy lineup. All of these titles will be ready to play on August 19. There's something here for just about everyone, so let's get started.Perhaps the biggest game of the bunch is Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. This is the PS5 port of the PS4 hit, which upgrades the graphics and swaps out the actor … [Read more...]

For decades, NASA built and flew its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to ferry valuable data back to Earth. Now the agency is shifting to buying connectivity as a service, much like it does for launch and astronaut transport. That pivot has sparked a race, with major contenders pitching ways to keep Mars missions online. What’s at stake isn’t a single contract: it’s the data pipe to … [Read more...]

Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky and his new company, Core Designs, have been beavering away on new e-paper smartwatches and the team has just revealed the final design of the higher-end model. The Pebble Time 2 has a 1.5-inch, 64-color e-paper screen, with a touchscreen, metal frame, heart-rate monitor and (it's claimed) up to 30 days of battery life.The frame is a bit more curved than on … [Read more...]

Over the past few years, Wizards of the Coast, the owners of Dungeons and Dragons, has been hard at work making the most famous tabletop RPG less of a hobby only for nerdy individuals and much more of a brand that everyone can enjoy. And I think it has done a good job; even if we don't count the movies and the tie-ins with Wizards' other money-maker, Magic: The Gathering, Baldur's Gate 3 did a … [Read more...]

When Nintendo announced that it was adding GameCube games to its (inexplicably Switch 2-only) Nintendo Switch Online offering, people were understandably excited about the likes of Super Mario Sunshine and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker joining the service. And I was one of them (even if I’d personally lose little sleep if Super Mario Sunshine was fired directly into the sun).But as much as I … [Read more...]

Sony just announced some new additions to the PS Plus Game Catalog for August and it's a pretty beefy lineup. All of these titles will be ready to play on August 19. There's something here for just about everyone, so let's get started.Perhaps the biggest game of the bunch is Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. This is the PS5 port of the PS4 hit, which upgrades the graphics and swaps out the actor … [Read more...]

San Francisco, CA, August 12, 2025 – InstallAware Software, the technology leader in software installation, repackaging, and virtualization solutions for app developers and enterprises, has launched codename “Project OS/3,” an installation virtualization framework built upon InstallAware’s two decades of excellence with platform native installation technologies spanning Linux, macOS, and … [Read more...]

A sophisticated new threat actor group dubbed “Curly COMrades” has emerged as a significant cybersecurity concern, conducting targeted espionage campaigns against critical organizations in countries experiencing substantial geopolitical shifts. The group has been actively pursuing long-term network access and credential theft operations since mid-2024, with a particular focus on judicial and … [Read more...]

One thing I need to make clear right from the start: this is a review of Norton VPN (formerly Norton Secure VPN, and briefly Norton Ultra VPN) as a standalone app, not of the VPN feature in the Norton 360 package. They're similar, but Norton VPN has a few more features, including the ability to choose cities as server locations in countries with more than one option.I'll state my opinion up front. … [Read more...]

With the advanced air mobility sector there is development of new aircraft such as taxis and cargo drones which are autonomous. Before they go for the everyday missions operations, they undergo testing. To accelerate that work, NASA is investigating a new kind of model wing. The prototype wing uses a tiltwing configuration. The rotors and airfoils can spin from vertical to horizontal, which allows … [Read more...]

Dons at war. Heists, prison breakouts, and shootouts. Horse and car races. An impossible love story. Opera assassinations and chases through Italian catacombs — Mafia: The Old Country has it all. It'll have you smiling from ear-to-ear sometimes, and rolling your eyes just as much, because as exciting as these elements sound, they're absolutely nothing new. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read more...]

Las Vegas—August 12, 2025—Progress Software (Nasdaq: PRGS), the trusted provider of AI-powered digital experience and infrastructure software, today announced at Ai4 2025 the general availability of Progress® MarkLogic® Server 12. This latest release introduces advanced semantic search and graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities, empowering organizations to ground generative AI in … [Read more...]

India-based audio series platform maker Pocket FM aims to be the Netflix of audio. That is, the company intends to match its audio series with hundreds of episodes to its users’ tastes. For that to work, it needs to release content rapidly — something it’s now turning to AI to help with. The Lightspeed-backed startup is giving its writers an AI tool set that can do things like suggest better … [Read more...]

A critical security vulnerability discovered in popular Android rooting frameworks could allow malicious applications to completely compromise rooted devices, giving attackers full system control without user knowledge. The vulnerability, first identified in KernelSU version 0.5.7, demonstrates how seemingly robust authentication mechanisms can be circumvented through clever exploitation … [Read more...]

Engineers aiming to accelerate the shift to electric vehicles are now closer to solving a persistent challenge — making high-energy batteries that charge quickly without compromising safety or lifespan. University of Maryland researchers have developed electrolytes with an extended stability window as the battery is charged. This development, which could drastically expand the potential success of … [Read more...]

Summer break is officially reaching its end, which means the back-to-school season is upon us yet again. And though I’m not looking forward to pulling all-nighters and cramming for finals and midterms in just a few weeks, there’s one thing that always hypes me up about this season — splurging on new tech products. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read more...]

PUBG: Battlegrounds is finally ready to ditch last-gen consoles. On Wednesday, the developer said that the game will transition to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 13.Although the battle royale has been playable on current-gen consoles all along, it was running as a PS4 or Xbox One game. That helped it cast a wide net (and probably make more money), but it also came with technical limitations. … [Read more...]

Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, on Wednesday showed off the new designs for the upcoming watch, now known as the Pebble Time 2. Although the company originally branded its new watches as the Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 when it first announced its plans to return to the market in March, Migicovsky says the company has since been able to regain the Pebble … [Read more...]

Amazon is expanding its same-day grocery delivery service with the addition of perishable food items in over 1,000 US cities. Shoppers can now add fresh grocery items like produce, dairy, meat, seafood and frozen foods to their orders. Grocery and non-grocery items can be combined into one order, checked out from one cart and received together on the same day. The company had trialed this service … [Read more...]