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NASA Advanced innovation study will try to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high characteristic acceleration–potentially up to 2 mm/s²–and large effective areas exceeding 10,000 m², to support future ultra–high delta-V missions. These advanced solar sails would significantly transform space exploration and utilization, making possible a range of missions currently beyond the capabilities of conventional chemical and electric propulsion. IF this works, we could send telescopes out 20 times further than Pluto so the Suns gravity would become a lens to focus images 10 billion times. Small telescopes out the edge of the solar system could look…
Resident Evil started as a video game before becoming a movie franchise. The original 1996 video game focused on a group of characters trapped in the mysterious Spencer Mansion while all hell broke loose. Later games expanded the series into outbreaks, biological experiments, and monsters, turning it into a more action-heavy survival horror. The first Resident Evil movie hit screens in 2002 and took some of those ideas in a different direction, eventually becoming its own franchise. With a new Resident Evil reboot on the way, now is a good time to check out some films that have things in…
Apple’s brand new iPhone 18 Pro series is now available for pre-order, with sales set to begin on September 18. Meanwhile, pre-orders for the iPhone Duo will start in October, but if you can’t wait that long, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 and Z Fold8 Ultra are both on sale this week. The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max look similar to last year’s iPhone 17 Pro series, but are available in new colorways. The new iPhones also get the new 2nm A20 Pro chipset and feature a variable aperture main rear camera. Apple has increased…
Cybersecurity firm Check Point this week announced patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in its gateway and firewall products using VPN functionality. Tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103 (CVSS score of 9.8), both security defects could be exploited without authentication for remote code execution (RCE), Check Point warns. The former is described as an improper validation of certificate data during VPN negotiation, while the latter is a heap overflow in the VPN certificate ASN.1 decoding flow. CVE-2026-85102, the company says, affects Security Gateway and Check Point Spark Firewall using Site to Site VPN or Remote Access VPN. CVE-2026-85103 impacts the Check Point…
Explanation: This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Just over four years ago, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rose before dawn to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before sunrise on July 8th, the featured photographer was able to capture in dramatic fashion one of the few comets visible to the unaided eye this century, an inner-Solar System intruder that has become known as the Great Comet of 2020. The resulting video detailed Comet NEOWISE from Italy rising over the Adriatic Sea. The featured time-lapse video combines over 240 images taken over 30 minutes. The comet was seen rising through a foreground of bright and undulating noctilucent clouds, and before a background of distant stars. Comet…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. I’ve been a huge fan of Dell displays for a long time. So, when I first saw the UltraSharp 32 4K QD-OLED (U3226Q), I thought two things: What a long name, and Wow, that looks incredible.I have got really used to my 52-inch beast from Dell, so I know they are capable of delivering spectacular quality and novel ideas. So, the idea of Dell jumping feet first into a…
The Pixel 11 Pro is a premium-priced device, coming in at a starting price of $1,100 for the base, non-XL model. But Google’s offering a freebie with its 11 Pro phones that can help take some of the sting out of that sticker price: six free months of Google AI Pro, a bonus that’d cost you almost $120 if you were to pay for it out of pocket. It’s not obvious how to get it, though. Here’s what Google AI Pro gets you, and how to claim your free six months on your Pixel 11 Pro. What is Google AI…
A United States court sentenced Ukrainian national Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko to four years in prison this week for his role in the Conti ransomware operation. Lytvynenko, 44, was arrested in Ireland in 2023 and extradited to the United States in late 2025. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud in June 2026, admitting to helping the Conti group develop malware and possessing stolen victim data. He faced up to 20 years in prison. Authorities initially indicated that the Ukrainian man worked with the Conti group between 2020 and 2022, when the operation was shut down. However, at his guilty plea, Lytvynenko…
FutureWhy So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill EveryoneWill Knight | Wired ($)”Genuinely stunning advances in AI capabilities—an OpenAI model solved a centuries-old math problem in a matter of hours—have come amid a rash of security incidents that saw swarms of agents break free from containment to hack into other systems. Those concerns reached a fever pitch this week after researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic while warning that AI firms are ‘racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.'”Artificial IntelligenceMathematicians Want Proof OpenAI Didn’t Use Their WorkRobert Hart | The Verge”Another researcher is…
Apple has unveiled its latest iPhone 18 Pro, and we’re keen to see how its specs compare to the Pixel 11 Pro. Although we’re currently yet to get our hands on the iPhone 18 Pro, we’ve compared its specs against the four-star Pixel 11 Pro and highlighted the key differences between the two smartphones. Read on to see what really separates the iPhone 18 Pro from the Pixel 11 Pro, and decide whether you think the new iPhone will join our best smartphones round-up. For more on Apple’s recent launch, check out our iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 18 Pro…