Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Dell May Face ‘sophie’s Choice’ Quandary

One year ago, I didn’t know how to bake bread. I just knew how to follow a recipe. If everything went perfectly, I could turn out something plain but palatable. But should anything change—temperature, timing, flour, Mercury being in Scorpio—I’d turn out a partly poofy pancake. I presented my partly poofy pancakes to people, and they were polite, but those platters were not particularly palatable. During a group vacation last year, a friend made fresh sourdough loaves every day, and we devoured it.

Welcome to Edition 7.21 of the Rocket Report! We're publishing the Rocket Report a little early this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. We don't expect any Thanksgiving rocket launches this year, but still, there's a lot to cover from the last six days. It seems like we've seen the last flight of the year by SpaceX's Starship rocket.

It's an NFC East showdown between New York and Dallas in the second of the NFL's three Thanksgiving Day games.

The NFL's Turkey Day triple-header kicks off with an NFC North showdown between Chicago and Detroit.

Miami and Green Bay play in prime time tonight, and you don't need cable to watch on NBC or stream on Peacock.

As Google updates its ads policy, it finally lifts the ban and allows social casino game app campaigns to run on its platform. This is due to the company removing social casinos from its restricted ‘Gambling,’ sensitive interest category, so adverts for social casinos will now be able to appear on web pages. The ads will be allowed to run from December 4, with advertisers able to gain the ability to personalize online social casino game app ads by the end of March 2025. This announcement came through an update on Google Support, with the November 2024 change now visible within the ads policy. “Specifically, the Gambling in personalized ads sensitive interest category will be updated to explicitly exclude social casino game App campaigns.