Month: June 2025

With Comcast trying to figure out how to stop losing broadband customers, the cable firm yesterday announced new plans that are available nationwide and do not have data caps.

Comcast said it is offering "four simple national Internet tiers that include unlimited data and the advanced Xfinity WiFi Gateway for one low monthly price." Customers whose current plans have data caps won't automatically get unlimited data and would have to switch to a new plan to remove that annoying limit from their accounts.

"Customers can repackage into one of our new plans that include unlimited data if they don't have it already with their existing plan," a Comcast spokesperson told Ars today.

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Die FreeBuds 6i von Huawei bieten aktive Geräuschunterdrückung, klaren Klang und praktische Features zu einem attraktiven Preis. (Technik/Hardware, Bluetooth)

Eine geplatzte Düse sorgt für das spektakuläre Ende eines Tests, der die Zukunft der SLS-Schwerlastrakete sichern sollte. (Northrop Grumman, Nasa)

Apple is changing its App Store policies in the EU in a last-minute attempt to avoid a series of escalating fines from Brussels.

The $3 trillion iPhone maker will allow developers in the bloc to offer apps designed for the iOS operating system in places other than Apple’s App Store, the company said.

Apple has been negotiating for two months with the European Commission after being fined €500 million for breaching the EU’s Digital Markets Act, the landmark legislation designed to curtail the power of Big Tech groups.

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Sternengucker haben ein seltsames Phänomen am Himmel beobachtet, das durch eine Mission von SpaceX verursacht wurde. (Falcon-9, Raumfahrt)

Welcome to Edition 7.50 of the Rocket Report! We're nearly halfway through the year, and it seems like a good time to look back on the past six months. What has been most surprising to me in the world of rockets? First, I didn't expect SpaceX to have this much trouble with Starship Version 2. Growing pains are normal for new rockets, but I expected the next big hurdles for SpaceX to clear with Starship to be catching the ship from orbit and orbital refueling, not completing a successful launch. The state of Blue Origin's New Glenn program is a little surprising to me. New Glenn's first launch in January went remarkably well, beating the odds for a new rocket. Now, production delays are pushing back the next New Glenn flights. The flight of Honda's reusable rocket hopper also came out of nowhere a few weeks ago.

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Isar raises 150 million euros. German space startup Isar Aerospace has obtained 150 million euros ($175 million) in funding from an American investment company, Reuters reports. The company, which specializes in satellite launch services, signed an agreement for a convertible bond with Eldridge Industries, it said. Isar says it will use the funding to expand its launch service offerings. Isar's main product is the Spectrum rocket, a two-stage vehicle designed to loft up to a metric ton (2,200 pounds) of payload mass to low-Earth orbit. Spectrum flew for the first time in March, but it failed moments after liftoff and fell back to the ground near its launch pad. Still, Isar became the first in a new crop of European launch startups to launch a rocket theoretically capable of reaching orbit.

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Strange New Worlds hat die Gorn, die erstmals in der klassischen Serie auftauchten, neu konzipiert - als wahrlich unmenschliche Monster. (Star Trek, Streaming)

Nördlich von Dubai soll eine neue Stadt mit einem zwei Kilometer langen Park entstehen, der die Temperaturen in der Wüstenstadt senken soll. (Wissen, Wirtschaft)

Nördlich von Dubai soll eine neue Stadt mit einem zwei Kilometer langen Park entstehen, der die Temperaturen in der Wüstenstadt senken soll. (Wissen, Wirtschaft)

Bis zu fünf Millionen neue Asteroiden sollen mit dem Observatorium entdeckt werden. Über 2.000 wurden bei den ersten Beobachtungen schon gefunden. (Asteroid, Astronomie)