Photo credit: NASA / Lori Losey
Lifting off from Edwards Air Force Base at 11:08 a.m. PDT on June 5, NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less guided the X-59 into the skies above the Mojave Desert. Eighty-one minutes later the aircraft returned to the runway after crossing the speed of sound for the first time.
Electricity has split water into hydrogen and oxygen for generations in classrooms and labs. Bubbles form at two electrodes, gases rise, and the show ends there for most observers. A closer look at what actually happens during the process, combined with one key addition, changes the outcome entirely.
Warehouse teams just gained a robot that responds to normal conversation instead of rigid commands. Amazon unveiled their next-gen Proteus this week during its Delivering the Future event near London. The machine still looks much like the original model from 2022, a low, rounded platform built to slide across warehouse floors and push big carts filled with goods.
Two British companies with strong reputations in their separate worlds have joined forces on a collection of high-performance computers. Chillblast supplies the technical assembly and component expertise built over years of custom machine work in the UK. Aston Martin brings its long experience with material finishes, color development, and interior details. The partnership produces systems that treat the desktop computer as an object worthy of the same care usually reserved for fine automobiles.
Apple plans to show off iOS 27 at its Worldwide Developers Conference early next week, and details already surfacing from internal builds and reports give a clear sense of the practical shifts users will notice first. One adjustment stands out right away for its effect on long-held habits. Notifications currently appear from the top of the screen, and a downward swipe from the middle opens the full list in Notification Center. In current internal versions of iOS 27, those alerts instead slide in from the left side. Reaching Notification Center requires a downward swipe from the top-left portion of the screen. A swipe from the center area now surfaces search or an interface for asking the assistant directly.