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All the news that’s fit to lift Is SpaceX planning to end its Transporter program? An Electron rocket launches the Victus Haze mission. Credit: Rocket Lab Welcome to Edition 8.47 of the Rocket Report! We have now very nearly reached the midpoint of 2026, a year in which
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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Apple is expected to shake up its usual Mac silicon release strategy, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reporting that there won’t be Pro or
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A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo’s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of the titles submitted to Kobo Writing Life, its self-publishing service, in 2025, and chief executive Michael Tamblyn attributes more than 80% of those rejections to
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* New Grand Theft Auto 6 details might have emerged from an Amazon Brazil listing * The game apparently features NPCs with their own routines and "random events" * Players may be able to switch between Jason and Lucia during missions Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders have officially begun, and thanks
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Prime Day is nearly over, ending midnight tonight, so today is your last chance to get Amazon's own TVs for a great price. There's no better model than the Ember Mini-LED and right now, you can get the 55-inch Ember Mini-LED for $499 (was $819.99)
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Google Messages has started rolling out custom "Chat themes" with customizable backgrounds. The update appears in the chat menu, replacing the earlier "Change colors" option and adding both color palettes and wallpapers that can be set for individual threads. Users can choose from themed wallpapers in
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New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Company, today announced the next evolution of its platform that will power agentic AI-first businesses. The New Relic Autopilot and New Relic Ground Truth capabilities provide engineering teams with ultimate flexibility, enabling them to either deploy an automated SRE agent operated entirely by New Relic,
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These super puffy planets are very rare. NASA / Daniel Rutter NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS has found what NASA calls the two "puffiest" worlds ever found. While they're as big as our gas giants, they're so light and airy that
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boAt, India’s No. 1 audio and wearables brand, has launched its new ‘Approved By’ campaign for the recently introduced Airdopes ProClip, transforming two of the biggest consumer questions around open-ear audio into celebrity-led challenges. As open-ear audio emerges as a fast-growing category globally, Indian consumers continue to have questions
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ZDNET's Lab Awards series combines the rigorous testing done in our Louisville, Kentucky-based lab and our decades of hands-on testing expertise. Our lab has tested everything from robot vacuums to phones to VPNs -- in each product category, we award a winner that outperforms the others in a
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It is the final day of Amazon Prime Day—the final countdown, the time of FOMO dread, the last official day of the best deals. The fourth day is the day when we bring you the sun, the moon, and the stars. After today, many things will cost a little
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Several weeks after Ivanka Trump unveiled a real estate venture with husband Jared Kushner for a proposed multibillion-dollar resort on Albania’s coastline, the project has become the focal point of a mass uprising in the country. Furious demonstrators have filled the capital’s streets under signs declaring: “Albania is
