• Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon

    January 30, 2026

    Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for “no less than two years” in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision puts a temporary halt on a program that Blue Origin has been using to fly humans past the Kármán line, the recognized boundary of space, for the last five years. Blue Origin made the announcement just a few weeks ahead of the expected third launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket, which is slated for late February. The company had previously suggested it…

  • AI2 Releases SERA, Soft Verified Coding Agents Built with Supervised Training Only for Practical Repository Level Automation Workflows

    January 30, 2026

    Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Researchers introduce SERA, Soft Verified Efficient Repository Agents, as a coding agent family that aims to match much larger closed systems using only supervised training and synthetic trajectories. What is SERA? SERA is the first release in AI2’s Open Coding Agents series. The flagship model, SERA-32B, is built on the Qwen 3 32B architecture and is trained as a repository level coding agent. On SWE bench Verified at 32K context, SERA-32B reaches 49.5 percent resolve rate. At 64K context it reaches 54.2 percent. These numbers place it in the same performance band as open weight…

  • Hyundai to kill off its only ute early in anticipation of something bigger – report

    January 30, 2026

    Hyundai is reportedly planning to end production of the Santa Cruz early due to sluggish sales of the lifestyle ute. Sources have told Automotive News the original plan was for the ute to march off into the sunset during the second quarter of 2027, but the date is being moved forward. Additionally, the current production rate is being halved as Hyundai attempts to reduce the Santa Cruz’s high inventory levels. If the report is correct, it will free up capacity at Hyundai’s Alabama factory to produce more of the closely related Tucson SUV. In response, Hyundai USA told the trade…

  • The Galaxy S26 lineup and everything else we expect

    January 30, 2026

    Samsung’s 2025 was filled with new foldables, an ultra-thin new form factor and the launch of Google’s XR platform. After making some announcements at CES 2026, the company is expected to host its first Galaxy Unpacked of the year in February to introduce the Galaxy S26 lineup. Engadget will be covering Galaxy Unpacked live, and we’ll most likely have hands-on coverage of Samsung’s new smartphones soon after they’re announced. While we wait for an official invite, here’s everything we expect Samsung will introduce at the first Galaxy Unpacked event of 2026. What is Unpacked 2026 taking place? But first, when…

  • Informant told FBI that Jeffrey Epstein had a ‘personal hacker’

    January 30, 2026

    A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker,” according to a document released by the Department of Justice on Friday. The document, which was released as part of the Justice Department’s legally required effort to publish documents related to its investigation into the late sex offender, does not identify who the alleged hacker was, but does include several details about them.  According to the informant, the hacker was an Italian born in the southern region of Calabria and specialized in finding vulnerabilities in iOS, BlackBerry devices, and the Firefox browser.  The hacker allegedly…

  • A Coding Implementation to Training, Optimizing, Evaluating, and Interpreting Knowledge Graph Embeddings with PyKEEN

    January 30, 2026

    In this tutorial, we walk through an end-to-end, advanced workflow for knowledge graph embeddings using PyKEEN, actively exploring how modern embedding models are trained, evaluated, optimized, and interpreted in practice. We start by understanding the structure of a real knowledge graph dataset, then systematically train and compare multiple embedding models, tune their hyperparameters, and analyze their performance using robust ranking metrics. Also, we focus not just on running pipelines but on building intuition for link prediction, negative sampling, and embedding geometry, ensuring we understand why each step matters and how it affects downstream reasoning over graphs. Check out the FULL CODES…

  • 2026 Mini Cooper price and specs

    January 30, 2026

    The iconic Mini Cooper has entered 2026 largely unchanged, with minor lineup tweaks bringing no major price changes. At the bottom of the range, which comprises no fewer than 23 variants, is still the Mini Cooper C Core three-door hatch priced at $41,990 before on-road costs. It tops out at $67,990 plus on-roads for the fully loaded John Cooper Works (JCW) Favoured convertible. With six different powertrains and three body styles on offer, the Cooper is a diverse model range. There are basic three-door hatches, larger five-door hatches, and two-door convertibles, alongside four levels of internal combustion power and two…

  • Kia EV2: Euro-built electric SUV ‘probably no’ for Australia

    January 30, 2026

    Kia Australia says the entry-level EV2 all-electric crossover is “probably leaning towards no” for a local introduction, citing production and freight costs as key challenges. Speaking with CarExpert at the launch of the new EV4 Sedan, general manager for product planning at Kia Australia, Roland Rivero, said the local arm will struggle to get the price of the Slovakian-built EV2 under the entry point of the Korean-sourced EV3. “[The EV2] is probably coming up not at the price point we would like it to be,” Mr Rivero told CarExpert. “It has to sit comfortably below EV3, and if we can’t…

  • NASA used Claude to plot a route for its Perseverance rover on Mars

    January 30, 2026

    Since 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a number of historic milestones, including sending back the first audio recordings from Mars. Now, nearly five years after landing on the Red Planet, it just achieved another feat. This past December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, marking the first time NASA has used a large language model to pilot the car-sized robot. Between December 8 and 10, Perseverance drove approximately 400 meters (about 437 yards) through a field of rocks on the Martian surface mapped out by Claude. As you…

  • Instagram might soon let you remove yourself from someone’s Close Friends list

    January 30, 2026

    Instagram is developing a feature that will allow users to remove themselves from someone’s “Close Friends” list, Meta told TechCrunch on Friday. The company says the feature is still in the early stages and is not being tested publicly yet. The social network’s Close Friends feature lets users share Stories, Reels, and posts with a select group of people, rather than their entire follower base. Since the feature’s launch in 2018, users haven’t been able to remove themselves from someone else’s Close Friends list. The internal prototype was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who specializes in finding unreleased…