Digg is back to take on Reddit, and you can use it now
Digg was one of the most popular websites of the 2000s. It brought millions of users together to share and discuss links from across the web, but lost most of…
2026
NASA Launches Its Most Powerful, Efficient Supercomputer
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Athena, NASA’s newest supercomputer, is housed at the agency’s Modular Supercomputing Facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s…
Trade wars muzzle allied talks on Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield
Gen. Michael Guetlein, the senior officer in charge of the US military’s planned Golden Dome missile defense shield, has laid out an audacious schedule for deploying a network of space-based…
OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works
On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent works internally, offering developers insight into AI coding tools that can…
Doctors face-palm as RFK Jr.’s top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his stance clear on vaccines in a podcast last week—and that stance was…
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a maker of…
NASA Technology Brings Golden Age of Exploration to Earth
Spinoff 2026 marks the publication’s 50th year documenting commercial uses of NASA technology. This edition’s cover features NASA astronaut Alan Bean holding an environmental sample container filled with lunar soil…
We may not have flying cars, but we have flying umbrellas
You wouldn’t think it, but for years people have looked at the humble umbrella and seen more than just a way to keep dry during a rainstorm. They see it…
Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: “I don’t think they’re great right now”
Crew members traveling to the lunar surface on NASA’s Artemis missions should be gearing up for a grind. They will wear heavier spacesuits than those worn by the Apollo astronauts,…
Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?
Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual properties that hold great…