Innovation
The Government Shutdown Is a Ticking Cybersecurity Time Bomb
Amid a government shutdown that has dragged on for more than five weeks, the United States Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday that it recently suffered a hack and...
GoWish’s shopping and wishlist app is having its biggest year yet | TechCrunch
Recession fears aren’t hurting the wishlist and shopping app GoWish, which is seeing record numbers ahead of the 2025 holiday season. The app, which has north of 13.6 million...
‘Wicked: For Good’ Teases Its Two Major New Songs
We’ve known for a while that part of Wicked: For Good‘s plan to expand on the second act of the beloved musical and turn it into a fully fledged...
How to Follow the Trajectory of Comet 3I/Atlas
On December 19, it will pass about 270 million kilometers from Earth, almost 700 times the average distance between our planet and the moon. Astronomers believe that for a...
Tesla delays reveal of production Roadster 2 to April Fools’ Day | TechCrunch
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday the company will reveal the production version of its second-generation Roadster supercar on April 1, 2026 — nearly nine years after he first...
A Woman’s Magic Transcends Politics and Borders in This Timely, Fantastical Short Story
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “In the Zone” by Lisa...
I Really, Really Want the 3,600-Piece Lego U.S.S. Enterprise
It is impossible to overstate just how big an impact Star Trek: The Next Generation had on an entire generation of kids growing up in the 1990s. I watched...
Spotify now lets you see weekly listening stats | TechCrunch
Spotify has rarely given its users much visibility into their listening habits. So far, users either had to link their account to services like Last.fm to track their music,...
RFK Jr.’s FDA is in Meltdown Mode
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again” doesn’t seem to be going so well. The new “health czar” continues to preside over the meltdown of America’s...
FAA Plan to Cut Flights Might Not Be an Utter Nightmare
The US Federal Aviation Administration plans to cut 10 percent of flights in 40 high-traffic airports on Friday morning if Congress fails to reopen the federal government by then,...
