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Apple has quietly told suppliers its foldable iPhone — once penciled in for Fall 2026 — cannot clear engineering-verification tests on schedule, pushing mass production and any retail debut into 2027 at the earliest.
On 6 April 2026, the four-person Artemis II crew flew 252,757 miles from Earth—exceeding Apollo 13’s 1970 mark—and during the six-hour far-side flyby asked the IAU to name two newly observed craters ‘Integrity’ and ‘Carroll.’
On 7 Apr 2026 three new surveys from the United States, Japan and New Zealand revealed a marked drop in public willingness to let AI handle sensitive tasks even as personal reliance on chatbots deepens, prompting experts and policymakers to call for coordinated U.S.–China and international safeguards.
In the first week of April 2026 Microsoft simultaneously warned users that Copilot is merely “for entertainment purposes” and told staff it had met aggressive targets after shifting from free bundling to $30-$99 paid plans, signalling a liability-shield plus monetization overhaul of its flagship AI.
On 6 April 2026 the Pentagon ordered nearly its full inventory of long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles moved from Pacific and other depots to CENTCOM and UK bases, after expending over 1,000 of the 2,300 missiles in the war’s first month.
On 6 April 2026, the four-person Artemis II crew swung 6,550 km above the Moon’s far side, breaking the 1970 Apollo 13 distance record by 4,102 miles during a seven-hour flyby that marked humanity’s first crewed return to deep-lunar space in 54 years.
NASA’s four-person Artemis II crew has crossed the halfway mark and will skim 5,000 mi above the Moon on 6 Apr 2026, reaching a record 252,757 mi from Earth and witnessing a total solar eclipse unseen from our planet.
On 5 April 2026, NASA’s Orion carrying four Artemis II astronauts passed the mission’s midpoint and entered the Moon’s gravitational sphere, clearing the last checkouts before a 4,000-mile-altitude fly-by—the first human return to deep-lunar space in 54 years.
A 3 April 2026 push by Moscow to choke off VPN traffic overloaded filtering systems, briefly crashing card-payment networks country-wide even as 65 million Russians continued accessing Telegram daily through VPNs.
Between 1–3 Apr 2026, NASA’s SLS rocket launched four astronauts aboard Orion and, after a 5 min 50 s European Service Module burn, committed the capsule to a 10-day free-return trajectory around the Moon.
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