Backyard astronomers will be able to use their telescopes to focus in on a massive cosmic visitor when it “skims” past Earth this weekend. On June 27 especially, a large asteroid known as (152637) 1997 NC1 will make a close but entirely harmless flyby in plain view, as long as you don’t mind staying up to catch it and have the right equipment.

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Well, Apple CEO Tim Cook recently (as in, last week) warned everyone that current pricing for the company’s product lines were “unsustainable” despite best efforts to mitigate big cost increases on the supply side, and it did not take long for his insinuation of consumer-side price hikes to play out. Apple has officially raised pricing on

Qualcomm built its empire on the silicon that keeps many mobile devices humming, so its latest move counts as a real change of scenery. At its Investor Day in New York on June 24, the company laid out a full data center roadmap under a new brand called Dragonfly, and it arrived with a marquee name attached. Meta has signed a multi-year, multi-generation

ASUS is now accepting preorders for its beastly and fully-loaded ROG Strix Scar 18 gaming laptop in two configurations, one with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 mobile GPU for $4,299.99 and a flagship setup with a GeForce RTX 5090 delivering up to 320W of sustained maximum total system power for $4,999.99. Both are basically desktop replacements.

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