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Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While NASA Investigates Its Faults

In an update released late Friday evening, NASA said it was “adjusting” the date of the Starliner spacecraft’s return to Earth from June 26 to an unspecified time in July. The announcement followed two days of long meetings to review the readiness of the spacecraft, developed by Boeing, to fly NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and… Continue reading Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While NASA Investigates Its Faults

The Best Pickleball Paddles, Tested and Reviewed (2024)

The sport of pickleball—which can be described as a cross between tennis and badminton, played with a hard plastic ball—is less than 60 years old, having been invented near Seattle in 1965. For most of that time, paddles were made of laminated wood and were mostly found in gym classes and retirement communities. But pickleball… Continue reading The Best Pickleball Paddles, Tested and Reviewed (2024)

Neoplants Neo Px Review: This Plant Isn’t as Good as an Air Purifier

Neoplants has an attractive pitch: a living alternative to an air purifier bioengineered to rid the home of those toxic vapors known as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. Its first product, the Neo Px, claims to be 30 times more efficient at air purifying than a regular houseplant. It arrived at my home in a… Continue reading Neoplants Neo Px Review: This Plant Isn’t as Good as an Air Purifier

Jabra Enhance Select 500 Review: Excellent Hearing Aids

The vast majority of additional features on the 500—including Jabra’s SoundScape speech clarity technology, top-tier support from professional audiologists, and even the choice of five colors— haven’t changed in any detectable way. A single button on either aid still controls volume (up with the right button, down with the left) and choice of four operational… Continue reading Jabra Enhance Select 500 Review: Excellent Hearing Aids

The 6 Best Linen Sheets for Cool and Comfy Summer Sleeping (2024)

I fell in love with linen bedding years ago. I bought a bright yellow linen duvet I was certain would bring my bedroom together. The yellow was just a phase, but sleeping on linen just clicked. Linen has a rougher texture and a lived-in look, which can turn some folks off from sleeping on it.… Continue reading The 6 Best Linen Sheets for Cool and Comfy Summer Sleeping (2024)

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

“They’d only get in trouble if they summarized the story incorrectly and made it defamatory when it wasn’t before. That’s something that they actually would be at legal risk for, especially if they don’t credit the original source clearly enough and people can’t easily go to that source to check,” he says. “If Perplexity’s edits… Continue reading Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

Polyend Tracker+ Review: Powerful but Niche

Polyend’s Tracker+ is a significant update to its powerful (if somewhat anachronistic) sample-based groovebox, the Tracker. What made the Tracker so unique, and also confounding, was that it was a tracker (small t), but in hardware form. Trackers were an early form of music-making software that emerged in the late ’80s. They were initially used… Continue reading Polyend Tracker+ Review: Powerful but Niche

US Bans Kaspersky Software

The Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky’s days of operating in the United States are now officially numbered. The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers starting on July 20, with the company only allowed to provide software updates to existing customers through September 29. The… Continue reading US Bans Kaspersky Software

Bugatti’s Tourbillon 2024: Price, Specs, Availability

The resurrection of Bugatti is one of the 21st century’s most notable automotive stories. Aristocratic, artistic, and more than a little arcane, Bugatti was a prewar marque that mastered luxury, design, and motorsport, the creator of Grand Prix winners, and arguably the most lavish motorcar ever made, in the shape of the early 1930s Type… Continue reading Bugatti’s Tourbillon 2024: Price, Specs, Availability