Month: June 2025

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built with Rust and simply called "Edit," works on Windows, macOS, and—in a twist that would have seemed unlikely three decades ago—Linux.

The cross-platform availability has delighted longtime users who never expected to see Microsoft's text editor running on their preferred operating system. "30 years of waiting, and I can use MS Edit on Linux," wrote one Reddit user, capturing the nostalgic appeal of running a genuinely useful version of a Microsoft DOS utility on a Unix-like system.

An animated GIF from Microsoft showing the modern "Edit" application in action. (Credit: Microsoft)

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For the second time in two months, United Launch Alliance sent a batch of 27 broadband Internet satellites into orbit for Amazon on Monday morning.

Just like the last flight on April 28, an Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and delivered Amazon's satellites into an on-target orbit roughly 280 miles (450 kilometers) above Earth. This was the second launch of a full load of operational satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper, a network envisioned to become a competitor to SpaceX's Starlink.

The Atlas V launched at 6:54 am EDT (10:54 UTC) on Monday, a week after ULA scrubbed the mission's first countdown to address a problem with the rocket's Russian-made RD-180 main engine. With that issue resolved, ULA's launch team gave a "go" for Monday morning's sunrise liftoff.

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Von Fanttik stammen Amazons Platz-zwei-Lötkolben und der beliebteste Handsauger. Nun sind sie befristet im Angebot. (Technik/Hardware)

Wegen Rechtsstreitigkeiten eines Landkreises in Baden-Württemberg mit Deutsche Glasfaser hat ein Haushalt zwar Fiber To The Home. Doch die geförderte Glasfaser endet an der äußeren Hauswand. (Deutsche Glasfaser, Glasfaser)

Google hasn't been talking about Chromebooks as much since AI became its all-consuming focus, but that's changing today with a bounty of new AI features for Google-powered laptops. Newer, more powerful Chromebooks will soon have image generation, text summarization, and more built into the OS. There's also a new Lenovo Chromebook with a few exclusive AI goodies that only work thanks to its overpowered hardware.

If you have a Chromebook Plus device, which requires a modern CPU and at least 8GB of RAM, your machine will soon get a collection of features you may recognize from other Google products. For example, Lens is expanding on Chrome OS, allowing you to long-press the launcher icon to select any area of the screen to perform a visual search. Lens also includes text capture and integration with Google Calendar and Docs.

Gemini models are also playing a role here, according to Google. The Quick Insert key, which debuted last year, is gaining a new visual element. It could already insert photos or emoji with ease, but it can now also help you generate a new image on demand with AI.

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Tesla’s robotaxi service, touted by Elon Musk as the future of his flagging electric-car maker, launched in the company’s home city of Austin, Texas, on Sunday with about 10 vehicles and a human safety driver on board amid regulatory scrutiny of its self-driving technology.

Shares in Tesla have risen about 50 percent from this year’s low in early April, with investors hopeful the autonomous ride-hailing service will help revive a company that has suffered declining sales and a consumer backlash against Musk’s political activism.

Despite the hype surrounding Tesla’s robotaxi, the launch—with a company employee seated in the passenger side for safety while leaving the driver’s seat empty—was low-key, and the initial service was open only to a select group of social media influencers.

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Die Aufnahmen wurden mit einer speziellen Kamera des Observatoriums gemacht, die erst vor kurzem in den Betrieb genommen wurde. (Astronomie, Kameras)

Netbooks may have gone out of fashion years ago, but a handful of Chinese PC makers continue to crank out cheap, tiny laptops with hardware that’s just good enough for basic tasks… sometimes by stuffing newer components into older models. Case in point? The X-Plus Piccolo Series71 is a mini-laptop with a 7 inch display, […]

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Der Bluetooth-Lautsprecher von Anker ist laut Hersteller wetterfest, hat eine Spielzeit von mehr als 20 Stunden und ist im Sommer für Musik unterwegs geeignet. (Technik/Hardware, Lautsprecher)

Apple zufolge sind die Testmethoden für das neue EU-Energielabel unzureichend erklärt. Also geht man bei der Einstufung auf Nummer sicher. (Apple, EU)