Gadgets & Tech – Spoken Edition

Forecasts from the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office and the US-based Aerospace Corp. predict that China’s falling space station, the Tiangong-1, will most likely plummet to Earth on Sunday night at around 730pm ET. The craft was originally thought likely to crash as early as Saturday. Per Space.

Alongside yesterday’s big update to iOS 11.3, Apple also quietly pushed out an update for macOS High Sierra. Included in the new update (version 10.13.4) are a number of helpful, but not super exciting improvements, such as the addition of new privacy icons and data management, additional sorting functions for bookmarks in Safari, and the usual assortment of bug fixes and stability enhancements.

An imagined war between dozens of meme communities on Reddit has been called off following the hacking of a chat server and the posting of a moderator’s personal information online. From start to finish, the entire conflict took less than a week.

GoPro is rumored to be releasing a new budget model soon—but it appears a Best Buy in El Paso, Texas has jumped the gun and accidentally stocked them onto its shelves. Look for yourselves: Twitter user Anry Black reached out to Gizmodo with a photo of the gadget just sitting out in the open. The faceplate very closely resembles that of the Hero5 Black and Hero6 Black, but the SKU number returns no results on Best Buy’s website.

Facebook has been playing a shell game with your privacy for years, but now it says it will put all of the settings that control your data under one shell. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which Facebook lost control of 50 million users’ personal data, the social media company’s stock price has fallen by nearly 18 percent.

While tablets don’t demand nearly the same kind of attention they once did, especially with Apple devoting much of its time to improving its pseudo-laptop replacement iPad Pro line, these handy little devices can still be pretty useful. However, one problem that gets in the way of wider Apple tablet adoption is cost. Currently, the cheapest iPad you can buy starts at $330. Meanwhile the 7.9-inch iPad mini 4, which was released back in 2015, costs even more at $400.

Elon Musk claims his Boring Company, which is currently in the middle of two tunnel-digging projects in Los Angeles and the Washington, D.C. region, will soon be in the business of selling its leftover rocks. In a Twitter post early Monday morning ET, Musk announced that the Boring Company will in the future be selling “Lifesize LEGO-like interlocking bricks made from tunneling rock that you can use to create sculptures & buildings.

Jacob Alexander loves keyboards. He has over 600 in his collection and says he emigrated to the U.S. from Canadajust because eBay shipping on his keyboard-related ordersare cheaper here. He stores his impressive collection in the office of his small company, Input Club, where he and his fellow keyboard enthusiasts design beautiful keyboards that retail for a couple hundred dollars a pop.

Self-declared Flat Earth researcher and DIY steam rocket enthusiast “Mad” Mike Hughes has finally managed to prove the haters wrong about his ability to blast himself some 1,875 feet into the sky without being crushed or scalded to death, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.

Elon Musk just deleted the Facebook pages for his companies SpaceX and Tesla in the wake of backlash against the social media company this week. And it’s a really bad sign for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. SpaceX had over 2.6 million likes on Facebook before it was ordered taken down by the billionaire founder. Tesla had over 2.4 million likes. A Facebook page for Tesla Motors still appears to be active, though it’s unclear if it’s actually affiliated with the company.