DefenseNews

Space Force’s 15-year vision calls for more personnel, simulators and survivability

The Space Force must expand in order to accomplish its mission, says the service’s new Objective Force plan, a 100-page document outlining a vision for its structure and doctrine through 2040. “The Space Force will require significant additional manpower and specialized expertise to generate Space Control forces able to conduct sustained operations at a global scale,” the plan says. For…
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ComputersNews

Norton VPN review: Simple, speedy, and better than ever

Norton has joined the growing list of security giants offering standalone VPN products. What was once a fairly basic add-on to its antivirus service, though, has evolved into something far more serious. Recent updates have brought meaningful performance gains, tighter…
ComputersNews

Investigation: Are RAM prices dropping, or is it all illusion?

Rising prices are the biggest tech story of 2026. Well, the biggest consumer tech story, anyway — the biggest story in a broader sense is “AI” in general. And that’s the answer to why prices are going up. AI data centers are gobbling up memory manufacturing capacity. The trend is expected to continue for quite a while, and there’s almost no capacity left for consumer-level RAM and…
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ComputersNews

One reason to use Edge: It now teases new Windows features

One of the keys to improving PC productivity is simply knowing a new tool exists. Easy, right? But it’s something that Microsoft and Windows has struggled with for years, and it finally seems like they’ve settled on a good method for alerting you to new features. For…
NewsSpace

'Dark subhaloes' may explain why galaxies seem to form pre-determined shapes

Our universe is full of mysteries, but few are as perplexing as the dark, tiny galaxies that hover around larger ones like the Milky Way. Small, dim, and almost invisible, dwarf spheroidal galaxies are packed to the brim with something we can’t see: dark matter. They’re like cosmic icebergs, with most of their mass hidden from plain sight, making them some of the most exotic objects…
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GamingNews

Catan: On the Road Card Game Review

You’ll likely be aware of Catan, the board game phenomenon that bought the novelty and imagination of German design into worldwide awareness, selling 40 million copies along the way. You’re perhaps less likely to be aware of the dizzying number of expansions and spinoffs…
GamingNews

Slay the Spire 2 Review-Bombing

Recent Slay the Spire 2 Steam reviews have fallen to “Mixed” after a new update triggered a second wave of review bombing. The sequel to developer Mega Crit’s popular roguelike deckbuilder, which launched in Early Access to “Overwhelmingly Positive” reviews March 5, received its first major update (version 0.103.2) yesterday. It’s a patch that introduced updated…
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