Nigeria is negotiating with Google to build a new undersea internet cable, aiming to diversify its connections and avoid outages. The country’s tech chief calls the current setup a “single point of failure” and wants more investment in cloud and computing power.
Sticking with one brand for your mouse, keyboard, and headset isn’t about brand loyalty or superior features. It’s a defensive move against the bloatware chaos of multiple vendor apps. Here’s why the Windows peripheral ecosystem is broken.
Severe weather in Colorado caused a prolonged power outage at NIST’s Boulder campus, knocking its primary atomic time scale offline. A backup generator then kept the servers running, potentially disseminating inaccurate time, but storm conditions prevented staff from physically disabling it. The inc
A new report details the surprising social renaissance happening in New York schools after a statewide smartphone ban. Students are filling their free time with dominoes, volleyball, and poker, leading to stronger friendships and better focus.
President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, which includes significant provisions for next-generation nuclear reactors. The bill aims to boost exports and development, supported by both Republicans and Democrats for different reasons.
Elon Musk just won a huge legal victory. The Delaware Supreme Court has reinstated his $56 billion Tesla pay package from 2018, overturning a lower court’s decision from earlier last year.
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is pushing its Vectis uncrewed aircraft prototype toward a 2027 first flight. The key to its aggressive timeline? Using a mature, off-the-shelf turbofan engine from Williams International.
According to a test by XDA-Developers, swapping out a year-old application of Noctua paste for Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on a high-end air-cooled system yielded no measurable temperature drop. The experiment challenges common beliefs about thermal paste as a frequent necessity for maintaining perform
Facing public complaints about dropped calls, Airtel Zambia is making a major infrastructure push. The $107 million investment aims to upgrade over 400 sites nationwide by the end of March.
On its way to Jupiter, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft turned its instruments on an unexpected target: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Its unique vantage point provided a never-before-seen perspective of the comet’s tails. The data could help unravel the comet’s origins in another star system.
