UK Space Agency funds tech for orbital awareness

Tesla hikes prices on all cars, with cheapest Model 3 now nearing $50K

Enlarge / Tesla Model 3. (credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Tesla raised prices last night on every model it sells. The move comes just a week after the company increased prices for its long-range battery packs by $1, 000. The new increase means that the cheapest Tesla, a Model 3 with rear-wheel drive, now costs […]

Study finds we’re already committed to more global warming—sort of

Enlarge (credit: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sea-surface-temperature.html ) Someday, humans will get it together and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But—not to fact check your daydreams too strictly here—how exactly will global temperatures respond to that day? This is a question climate science has long worked to answer, although devils in the details have led to some confusion. A […]

Security researcher successfully jailbreaks an Apple AirTag

After permanently bricking two AirTags, stacksmashing succeeded in breaking into and reprogramming a third. [credit: stacksmashing ] This weekend, German security researcher stacksmashing declared success at breaking into, dumping, and reflashing the microcontroller of Apple’s new AirTag object-location product. Breaking into the microcontroller essentially meant being able both to research how the devices function (by analyzing […]