5 of the most common issues with Starlink internet (and how to fix them)

Starlink internet can be fast and flexible, but common issues still affect everyday use. Learn what causes them and how to ...
UPI

Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks

A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been slowly falling toward Earth, on July 3, 2026. Over the coming ...
The Washington Post

Look at Earth’s orbit. This mess is dangerous.

Each blue dot represents one of 16,500 active satellites. GPS navigation, banking transactions, communications, weather forecasting, emergency response systems, agriculture, aviation and national ...
Ars Technica

Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other global navigation satellite systems operating from higher orbital ...
The New York Times

Physicists Have Argued Over This Problem Since 1883. It May Now Be Solved.

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. By Kenneth Chang Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the ...
SpaceNews

The satellite industry’s most expensive problem isn’t in orbit

AST SpaceMobile's first Block 2 BlueBird direct-to-device satellite was taken to LEO by an LVM3, India's largest rocket, in December 2025. Credit: ISRO AST SpaceMobile recently deployed three more ...
Macworld

watchOS 27’s new Siri finally fixed my dumb timer problem

Macworld reports that watchOS 27 beta 3 finally allows Siri to add time to running timers on Apple Watch, fixing a long-standing user frustration. Previously, users had to manually calculate and reset ...
Cult of Mac

watchOS 27 finally lets Siri add time to your Apple Watch timer

Your Apple Watch’s Siri timer problem just got fixed. With watchOS 27 beta 3, you can finally tell Siri to add two minutes to an already running timer — instead of getting stonewalled with “What do ...
SpaceNews

Quantum computing is about to become a national security problem in orbit

Quantum computing is advancing fast, and nations are racing to field the first machines powerful enough to break modern encryption. This race has direct consequences for the commercial space industry, ...
Redmond Magazine

Why PowerShell Timers Cause Problems in GUI Environments, Part 2

A practical workaround shows how PowerShell developers can keep Windows Forms GUIs responsive by moving timer-driven processing into background jobs and using a second timer to update the interface ...
Redmond Magazine

Why PowerShell Timers Cause Problems in GUI Environments, Part 1

PowerShell GUI timers can freeze dashboards when updates run outside the UI thread. Windows Forms timers update labels correctly but can make interfaces completely unresponsive. Responsive PowerShell ...
Scientific American

Almost half of the objects in Earth’s orbit are junk—and that’s only the stuff we know about

Almost half the stuff in orbit around Earth can be classified as space junk, and the problem is only going to get worse as launches and orbital infrastructure increase. Using data from the U.S. Space ...