Meta’s brutal earnings report helps explain its metaverse shift

Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?

Enlarge / Daan Roosegaarde is the artist behind the glow-in-the-dark Van Gogh fietspad (bike path). (credit: Daan Roosegaarde, CC BY-SA 3.0) Around the year 1603, Italian shoemaker and amateur alchemist Vincenzo Casciarolo tried smelting some especially dense stone he had found on the slopes of Mount Paderno, near Bologna. No gold, silver, or other precious […]

Rocket Report: Neutron may land in Virginia; it’s to be Starship for Starlink

Enlarge / SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is seen returning to Earth after its 10th flight to space. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann / Ars Technica) Welcome to Edition 4.28 of the Rocket Report! As I write this introduction, I’m watching Virgin Orbit’s livestream for its “Above the Clouds” mission, and the company’s LauncherOne vehicle has successfully reached […]

New Surface hardware is likely to surface at Microsoft’s September 22 event

Enlarge / Microsoft is streaming a Surface-focused hardware event on September 22. (credit: Microsoft) Windows 11 is coming out on October 5, but it’s not the only thing Microsoft has in store this fall. The company will be livestreaming an event at 11 am Eastern on September 22 , where it promises to “talk about […]