The Morning After: Nasa’s Artemis Ii Is On A Voyage Around The Moon

NASA’s Artemis II successfully launched connected April 1, pinch its unit connected a 10-day ngo to circle nan Moon. It’s nan first crewed Artemis flight and a awesome measurement toward humanity returning to our small neighbour successful nan future. Since launch, nan conveyance has separated from its motorboat strategy and been manually piloted, testing really nan Orion capsule will dock pinch early lunar landers. There person been immoderate snags, however: The onboard toilet went awry, and Microsoft Outlook has been acting screwy.

Jokes aside, location is thing magnificent astir seeing humanity taking to nan stars erstwhile again. That, for each of our worst instincts, we tin still travel together to lick problems and research beyond our ain horizons.

— Dan Cooper

The different large stories (and deals) this morning

What’s going connected pinch Donut Lab's alleged ace battery?

The institution is agelong connected promises, short connected evidence.

At CES 2026, a Finnish–Estonian startup claimed to person invented a world-changing coagulated authorities battery. Rather than explicate really it did so, it engaged successful a lengthy run teasing retired information that didn’t rather support its explosive claims. We’ve dived deep to abstracted truth from hype and recovered there’s small of nan erstwhile and far, acold excessively overmuch of nan latter.

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Roland Go:Mixer Studio review: Portable, master and plentifulness of polish

It’s pricier than different portable mixers, but for bully reason.

As James Trew says, $300 is simply a batch for a portable mixer successful this class, but Roland’s marque caller Go:Mixer Studio justifies its price. Unlike its predecessor, nan Pro-X, it gets a 2nd XLR port, MIDI connectivity and a show offering visible VU meters. That you tin besides usage it arsenic a desktop interface adds different furniture of icing connected an already saccharine cake.

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What to expect from WWDC 2026

I’m really alternatively excited astir this one.

WWDC 2026 isn’t until nan summer, but we’re already collating capable rumors from nan mill to bring you nan wrong skinny. Early reports propose Apple is making this a Snow Leopard year, tidying up aft itself wrong its package alternatively than going difficult connected caller features. Hopefully, that will spot nan gaudier excesses of Liquid Glass dialed down, a batch of trimmed cruft and stableness improvements. Oh, and immoderate guff astir AI.

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Robosen Soundwave review: A puerility dream made real

Who cares astir sound value erstwhile your speaker transforms!?

There are immoderate things successful life that would usually beryllium a difficult sell, a $1,400 boombox that could conscionable astir move astir pinch mediocre sound value being 1 of them. Dress it up arsenic Soundwave from nan original Transformers artifact statement / cartoon, however, and abruptly Sam Rutherford is racing for their wallet.

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Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro review: The king of statement projectors

On nan taxable of costly things…

Nebula’s built rather nan way grounds for making projectors you’re really proud to show off. Its latest is the X1 Pro, which combines a beefy 4K projector pinch a 400-watt Dolby Atmos 7.1 speaker system. That’s a hellhole of a batch of tech successful a azygous package and is intelligibly astatine location astatine nan halfway of a backyard movie nighttime nether nan stars. But is it worthy nan $5,000 asking price? For that, you’ll request to publication Steve Dent’s review.

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