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NASA initially hoped it would be a quick changeover to backup hardware, but the cause of the failure has been difficult to track down. The team is still working on a solution, but it's going to take a lot of troubleshooting to track down the glitch.

A new fossil discovery may have found a close ancestor of ours — or a link in the Denisovan family tree.

Microsoft's Windows 11 unveil has quickly devolved into a confused mess regarding which CPUs will and won't be supported, but new information from both the company and end-users has shed a bit of light.

The universe is about 13.8 billion years, give or take. For most of that time, the whole of existence has looked similar to the way it looks now, just not quite as big. However, there was a time when there was no starlight to illuminate the infinite darkness of space. Now, scientists believe they've pinpointed when that changed.

If Microsoft's latest documentation is true, a huge number of current PCs will not be eligible to upgrade to Windows 11. We're hoping for clarification on these points very soon.

My Book Live owners around the world are reporting their devices have been purged of all data, and Western Digital is advising that everyone disconnect their drives from the internet for now.

Microsoft's free upgrade to Windows 11 could wind up costing you money. Not for the OS, but for the additional hardware you'll need to run it.

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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is still going strong, tracking south along with the Perseverance rover. The agency has reported that Ingenuity just completed its eighth flight, and the problems from earlier flights have not recurred.

Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 as expected, but one thing we did not expect was the company's decision to partner with Amazon and Intel to put Android apps on Windows.

Microsoft lifted the lid on Windows 11 today, capping several weeks of speculation, testing, and argument over the size of the OS update and the degree to which it would upend the status quo.

AMD's new FidelityFX feature is now available. The spatial upscaler can help boost performance at 4K with only small quality dips, but there are tradeoffs below that point.