Technology News for Saturday 7th September 2024

1. An Empty Boeing Starliner Is About to Return to Earth: How to Watch

Boeing's Starliner is finally coming home, but the two NASA astronauts who traveled in the spacecraft to the International Space Station are not. After successfully undocking from the orbital outpost early on Friday evening, the empty and troubled ...

2. Live coverage: NASA, Boeing undock Starliner, marking the beginning of the end for the Crew Flight Test mission

The spacecraft is set to undock from the International Space Station after arriving on June 6. Undocking is set for 6:04 p.m. EDT (2204 UTC), followed by landing at the White Sands Space Harbor ...

3. Norfolk moth thought extinct a 'phenomenal' find

The discovery in a couple's garden of a moth believed extinct for more than 50 years has been described as "phenomenal" and of national importance. The Norfolk Snout moth, first recorded near Norwich in Victorian times, was never seen anywhere else in ...

4. The Connections Companion No. 455

Introducing Connections Bot: a daily tool that provides a personalized analysis of your Connections solve, inspired by WordleBot. Connections Bot lets you know the puzzle's difficulty level, and whether you made the same mistakes as other solvers.

5. When a Smart House Turns Evil

The uncanny aspect of A.I. is front and center in “William,” Mason Coile's slim, gripping novel about the horror of watching software embrace its will to power. The title character is a robot built to house an experimental A.I. ...

6. Is NBA2K25 Cross Platform?

NBA 2K25 is officially out as avid basketball fans and gamers are set on playing the newest iteration of the NBA 2K series. With a wide variety of various features through virtual currency available, many players are itching to take their skills to the ...

7. Stream Privately: Expert Tips for Setting Up a VPN on Your Smart TV

A VPN on your smart TV will let you privately stream videos from any location. Sarah Tew/CNET. Do you want to avoid that ...

8. New iPhone will use Arm's chip technology for AI, FT reports

Arm had said in July that its V9 chip accounts for 50% of smartphone revenue. Arm owns the intellectual property behind the computing architecture for most of the world's smartphones, which it licenses to Apple ...

9. Japan display makers pay dearly for failing to see iPhone's LCD exit

TOKYO/OSAKA -- Japanese display makers, once the biggest suppliers of iPhone screens, will no longer be part of the Apple supply chain as they failed to anticipate the company's total switchover to organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays.

10. The iPhone is getting a 'glow' up. What to expect from Apple's Monday event

Apple excited fans with its vision for its “Apple Intelligence” artificial intelligence system earlier this year. Now, it's time for the company to prove it really works. The company is set to introduce the first lineup of iPhones purpose-built for ...

11. Seriously, Use Encrypted Messaging

This week, we talk about recent developments with messaging apps Telegram and Signal, and discuss the future of encrypted messaging, surveillance capitalism, and nonprofit business models in tech.