• Europe’s five sectors of the ITER vacuum vessel took 750 km of welding beads and a 16-year build, and the ninth and last sector of the roughly 5,200-tonne vessel reached Cadarache on 2 October, putting every core tokamak component on site.
  Nov 03, 03:08 AM
• A Navy tactical drone landed on a pitching ship at sea with no GPS and no pilot at the controls, using commercial-standard cameras to recognise the hull and software to predict the deck, a job that normally needs multimillion-dollar radar.
  Nov 03, 03:08 AM
• Hubble has no propulsion system of its own, so drag is pulling it toward re-entry in 2033 or 2034, and NASA has asked companies for ideas by November 30 on boosting it, servicing it or bringing it down on purpose.
  Nov 03, 03:08 AM
• Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 ships November 6 from $1,999, with a 12-core CPU, Wi-Fi 7 and what Apple calls the longest battery life in a Mac at up to 24 hours.
  Nov 03, 03:08 AM
• Football Manager 27 early access opens on PC Game Pass on November 3, and the full game joins Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on November 10.
  Nov 03, 03:08 AM
• Pulse Elevate wireless speakers land on November 12 at $219.99, with a built-in mic and PlayStation Link low latency for PS5, PlayStation Portal, PC and Mac.
  Nov 03, 03:08 AM
• Pikmin 4 Switch 2 Edition arrives November 12 with 72 Dandori exam stages and voice commands to Oatchi, and Switch owners can upgrade for $9.99.
  Nov 03, 03:08 AM
• Terrible Lizards has arrived on Game Pass with no weapons—you survive its animatronic dinosaurs by climbing and wall-running
  Nov 02, 11:24 PM
• Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade has joined Game Pass on console, PC and cloud, including the Premium tier
  Nov 02, 11:22 AM
• In 2013, an unmanned Navy jet caught an aircraft carrier’s arresting wire and stopped from about 145 knots in less than 350 feet
  Nov 02, 10:25 AM
• Crimson Desert now lets Xbox players try its updated base game free for five hours
  Nov 02, 07:52 AM
• Transnet Freight Rail ran an empty 696-wagon train about 7.6 km long to Loop 18 on October 18, synchronising its electric and diesel locomotives by radio so braking forces spread through the train, and claims a world record.
  Nov 02, 01:14 AM
• Beacon AI says its Murdock box flew aboard three operational KC-46A Pegasus tankers for five flights and about 20 hours, reading the certified avionics buses and advising the crew without modifying flight-critical systems or taking control.
  Nov 02, 01:14 AM
• The Deep Space Network heard nothing from Voyager 1 on October 18 and 19, the signal returned on October 20 before anyone sent a command, and the 1977 probe’s computers had switched one thruster group to its backups by themselves.
  Nov 02, 01:14 AM
• Apple’s new iPad mini starts at $699 with an 8.5-inch OLED screen, the A20 Pro chip and an IP67 rating, and reaches customers on Friday November 6.
  Nov 02, 01:14 AM
• Amazon put a smart home hub and an eero Wi-Fi extender inside the $99.99 Echo Dot that shipped on October 28, adding up to 1,000 square feet of coverage.
  Nov 02, 01:14 AM
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 goes live on November 6 with three free multiplayer maps and two Warzone maps, and its 100-tier Battle Pass catches late buyers up to day 50.
  Nov 02, 01:14 AM
• PlayStation Plus adds Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered and Monster Train 2 on November 3, and October’s three games can be added until November 2.
  Nov 02, 01:14 AM
• From the cockpit of an F-22, a pilot acted as an airborne quarterback for a YFQ-44A Fury in October, handing it tactical directives instead of stick-and-rudder commands; Anduril says it was a first for the Raptor and the pre-production drone.
  Oct 31, 10:32 PM
• In 2021, Boeing’s MQ-25 drone passed 325 pounds of fuel to a Navy Super Hornet — the first midair refueling delivered by an unmanned aircraft
  Oct 31, 12:00 PM