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Devices, outages and the companies behind them, explained without jargon and without repeating a press release.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches Successfully on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 31, 2026 · Updated September 10, 2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, silhouetted against the sun

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off Sunday, August 30, 2026, at 7:26 a.m. EDT aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy

Categories Technology Tags NASA

ICE Plans to Spend Up to $2 Million on Boston Dynamics Robot Dogs; Senators Demand the Deal Be Cancelled

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 31, 2026
Editorial illustration of a quadruped robot dog, similar in form to Boston Dynamics' Spot, standing in an institutional hallway.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend between $1 million and $2 million on Boston Dynamics “Spot” robot dogs, according to a procurement notice

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Apple Watch Ultra 4 Isn’t Confirmed Yet: What’s Rumored Before Apple’s September 9 Event

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 29, 2026 · Updated September 10, 2026
Aerial view of Apple Park, the ring-shaped headquarters campus in Cupertino

Apple has confirmed a special event called “Surprise and Shine” for September 9, 2026, at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern) at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple

Categories Technology Tags John Ternus, Tim Cook

PS5 Pro’s Confirmed Price Is Still $899.99, Despite Reports of an August Price Cut

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 28, 2026
A PlayStation 5 Pro console

If you searched for the PS5 Pro’s price this week expecting to find it cheaper, the confirmed number hasn’t moved.

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Leaked GTA VI Gameplay Triggers DMCA Subpoenas Against Microsoft and Discord, Days Before Rockstar’s Official Preview

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 24, 2026 · Updated September 6, 2026
A phone, laptop and notebook on a desk, illustrating gaming and technology news coverage

Take-Two Interactive has gone to federal court to try to unmask the source of a Grand Theft Auto VI leak, filing subpoenas under the Digital Millennium Copyright

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SpaceX’s Starlink Network Passes 11,000 Satellites, Two-Thirds of All Active Satellites

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 22, 2026 · Updated September 5, 2026
AI-generated illustration: SpaceX's Starlink Network Passes 11,000 Satellites, Two-Thirds of All Active Satellites

SpaceX’s Starlink network passed 11,000 satellites in orbit as of August 19, 2026 — roughly two-thirds of all active satellites currently circling Earth, according

Categories Technology Tags Elon Musk

Sony Still Has No Release Date or Price for the PS6, CEO Says, Blaming a Global Memory Chip Shortage

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 21, 2026 · Updated August 30, 2026
AI-generated illustration: Sony Still Has No Release Date or Price for the PS6, CEO Says, Blaming a Global Memory Chip Shortage

Sony’s next PlayStation console still doesn’t have a launch date, a price, or even an official name.

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NASA Calls Off Swift Space Telescope Rescue After Servicing Spacecraft Loses Control

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 20, 2026 · Updated September 10, 2026
A telescope pointed at a starry night sky, editorial illustration for a space telescope story

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced on Aug. 19, 2026, that they will not attempt to capture and boost the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into a higher

Categories Technology Tags NASA

Star Citizen Has Raised Over $1 Billion — and Still Has No Release Date

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 18, 2026
Starfield backdrop, representing the Star Citizen space simulation game

Star Citizen, Cloud Imperium Games’ long-running crowdfunded space simulation, is in the news because several developments have converged, not because of one

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Astronomers Find a New Kind of Cosmic Object: A Black Hole Wrapped in Gas That Glows Like a Star

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 17, 2026
A telescope beneath a starry night sky at an astronomical observatory

According to the team’s model, MoM-BH-1 may be a black hole star: a supermassive black hole so completely wrapped in hydrogen gas that, from a distance, it looks

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SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets 38 Minutes Apart, a New Company Record

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 16, 2026 · Updated August 30, 2026
AI-generated illustration: rocket and launch pad

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets from opposite U.S. coasts about 38 minutes apart on Saturday, Aug.

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Hackers Hit More Than 30 Minnesota Water Utilities, but Officials Say Drinking Water Stayed Safe

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 4, 2026
AI-generated illustration: Hackers Hit More Than 30 Minnesota Water Utilities, but Officials Say Drinking Water Stayed Safe

Over two days — Sunday, July 26, and Monday, July 27, 2026 — hackers broke into the control systems of more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota

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A SpaceX Rocket Stage Hit the Moon — Korea’s Danuri Orbiter Photographed the Impact Site

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 3, 2026 · Updated August 11, 2026
Photo of SpaceX Falcon

A discarded SpaceX rocket stage was due to slam into the Moon at about 2:35 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, August 5, 2026.

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