Microsoft Cleans Up Teams’ Cluttered Meeting Controls
The meeting was ten minutes in before anyone noticed the presenter was muted. A new feature had been added to Teams the week before, another button in a toolbar that…
Meta Quietly Releases Forum, a Reddit-Style Home for Facebook Groups
The app appeared in app stores with no announcement, no press release and no fanfare. Its name is Forum, and it is Meta’s answer to a question the company has…
New Glenn Gets Its Clearance: Blue Origin Returns to Flight
The booster came home. The satellite did not. That split verdict from Blue Origin’s third New Glenn flight in April, a perfect landing on a drone ship and a payload…
Meta’s Forum App Takes On Reddit, Quietly
There was no press release and no keynote. One morning last week, an app called Forum appeared on Apple’s App Store, and by Friday it had a name in Silicon…
Gemini 2.0 Moves Into the Office: Google Rebuilds Workspace Around AI
The meeting ended, and the notes were already written. Google this week announced that Gemini 2.0 is now fully integrated into Workspace, adding automatic meeting summaries, smart replies across Gmail…
Apple’s Big Fold: 18.8-Inch iPad Pro Said to Be in Testing
At 18.8 inches unfolded, Apple’s next iPad Pro would be bigger than the screen on many laptops the company sells. According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is testing…
Starship’s Fuel Handoff: SpaceX Masters In-Orbit Propellant Transfer
Two Starship vehicles met in orbit this week and did something no pair of spacecraft had done before at this scale: one passed roughly 100 metric tons of supercooled liquid…
Starship V3’s First Flight Stalls on a Stuck Hydraulic Pin
The countdown reached the final minutes and then stopped. SpaceX’s Starship V3, the largest rocket the company has ever rolled to a pad, was scheduled for its first flight Thursday…
AMD Ships Its First 2-Nanometer Server Chip, Made by TSMC
The chip that will power the next generation of cloud servers went into mass production this week in Taiwan. AMD said Thursday that its next-generation EPYC processor, code-named Venice, has…
SpaceX Files Reveal a 10-Gigawatt Solar Factory in Texas
The permit applications landed in Bastrop County’s records office weeks before anyone noticed them, and they describe something no rocket company has built before: a solar manufacturing plant with 10…
