NASA says Artemis III will launch in 2027 and dock Orion with test versions of Blue Origin's Blue Moon and SpaceX's Starship in low Earth orbit, ahead of a crewed lunar landing targeted for 2028.
Apple stock hit a record intraday high above $351 on Friday, pushing its market value to about $5.12 trillion and briefly ahead of Nvidia as the $1,999 iPhone Duo hit stores. Nvidia later moved back into the lead.
Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 4 launched October 23 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2, with a Korea-set campaign, 20 multiplayer maps and the DMZ extraction mode. It isn't on Game Pass at launch.
The biggest update yet to Riley Testut's Delta emulator adds Sega Genesis, RetroAchievements, a Liquid Glass redesign and foldable-friendly DS play on iPhone Duo, and it's now on the EU App Store too.
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The studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Knights of the Old Republic is shutting down as part of an EA restructuring that cuts about 3% of its workforce, while Respawn and DICE team up on a new project.
Science
NASA says Sierra Lobo will build the system that turns SR-1 Freedom's fission reactor heat into electricity, as the first fission-powered spacecraft to leave Earth orbit stays on track for a late-2028 launch to Mars.
Hardware
The Santa Clara chip company closed a $1.5 billion Series E at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, and says it will use the money to deploy its Galaxy servers at scale and grow its chip IP licensing business.
Gaming
According to Fortune, Xbox is targeting a next-gen handheld for holiday 2027 and its Project Helix console for holiday 2028, with the console internally projected at $1,200 to $1,800 unless Microsoft subsidizes it.
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AI coding agent OpenCode says an intruder reached a legacy system and may have exposed the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys saved by 1.4% of OpenCode Console users. Some users report hundreds of dollars in charges they didn't make.
Read storyAmazon, X-energy and American Electric Power are studying a 960-megawatt plant of 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors in Sullivan County, Indiana. Amazon would provide development funding and be the first buyer of its power.
Read storyApple has invited media to an all-day launch experience in Los Angeles on October 28 at 10 a.m. PT. Bloomberg reports the lineup includes the first touchscreen MacBook Pros, M6 Macs and an OLED iPad mini.
Read storyStanford researchers found that bleached coral fragments bounced back within weeks after brief contact with a healthy, genetically identical fragment. Bleached fragments kept a few millimeters away did not recover.
Read storyMicrosoft has ended its agreement for Nscale's Loughton, Essex site, once billed as the UK's largest AI supercomputer. Reports say the grid can't power it until the 2030s.
Read storyValve's October 2026 Next Fest runs from October 19 to 26, with free demos of unreleased PC games. PC Gamer counted 8,011 entries on the press preview page, roughly double June's event.
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