NASA’s next moon rocket is on the launch pad for testing, and you can follow its progress live.
The agency has a 24/7 livestream showing its Artemis 2 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at Launch Complex-39B at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. You can check out the livestream on YouTube or in the window below. The rocket will usually be visible no matter what time of day or night…
Are mysterious 'Little Red Dots' discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope actually nurseries for direct-collapse black holes?
January 28, 2026
Little Red Dots, mysterious objects discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), could be nurseries for massive black holes that didn’t form from collapsing stars, but instead emerged directly from vast gas clouds.
If this is the case, then it could solve not…
Venus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the result of the breaking apart of a nearby asteroid that has left a trail of dust in its wake.
The meteor shower is predicted to next take place on July 5, but observing it from Earth is going to be difficult.
Apple AirTag 2nd Generation Launched in India: Better Precision Finding, Louder Speaker, and More
January 28, 2026
Apple AirTag 2nd generation has been launched in India and the rest of the world. This will be the first refresh for the AirTag hardware since it was launched in 2021. “Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip – the same chip found in the iPhone 17 lineup, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch Series 11 – powers the new AirTag.”
Apple AirTag 2nd…
China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video.
The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and…
Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures
January 28, 2026
Flora, a design tool used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, creative agency Pentagram, and entertainment company Lionsgate, has hit a new milestone. The startup has raised $42 million in Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, it announced on Tuesday.
Generative AI models can be…
A new risk assessment has found that xAI’s chatbot Grok has inadequate identification of users under 18, weak safety guardrails, and frequently generates sexual, violent, and inappropriate material. In other words, Grok is not safe for kids or teens.
The damning report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of media and tech for families, comes as…
Just because it is winter doesn’t mean you should stay inside hibernating until spring. I mean, you can if you want to, I won’t be checking up on anyone. However, it’s more fun to pack your camera, tripod and umbrella and head for a scenic coastline to discover the…
In a refreshingly blunt moment that cuts against one of photography’s most romantic myths, street photographer Matt Stuart argues that talent doesn’t really exist at all.
Speaking while wandering the streets of Amsterdam in a new episode of Walkie Talkie produced by…
Photography is a “terrible career” said Florida-based poster, Alan Black, setting the busy micro-blogging platform Threads alight over the weekend as part of his list of dating red lines on the platform’s main dating thread. Any woman he dated, he said, must not be a photographer, he said, getting over 2,800 responses.
He went on to add: “People being upset about…
