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Check out the first trailer for Masters of the Universe

1h ago

Blue Origin makes impressive strides with reuse—next launch will refly booster

3h ago

Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable "Personal Intelligence"

4h ago

Finally, a new controller that solves the Switch 2's "flat Joy-Con" problem

4h ago

eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

5h ago

All sorts of interesting flags and artifacts will fly to the Moon on Artemis II

6h ago

Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial

6h ago

Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter

21h ago

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

21h ago

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say

22h ago

Trump FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows

23h ago

The problem with revisiting Tomb Raider: Reacclimating to tank controls

Wed

Kioxia's memory is "sold out" for 2026, prolonging a "high-end and expensive phase"

Wed

Watch a robot swarm "bloom" like a garden

Wed

Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain

Wed

Another Jeff Bezos company has announced plans to develop a megaconstellation

Wed

Here's Volvo's new EX60 $60,000 electric midsize SUV

Wed

Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.

Wed

Zillow removed climate risk scores. This climate expert is restoring them.

Wed

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

Wed

Webb reveals a planetary nebula with phenomenal clarity, and it is spectacular

Tue

Zuck stuck on Trump’s bad side: FTC appeals loss in Meta monopoly case

Tue

Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones

Tue

Google temporarily disabled YouTube's advanced captions without warning

Tue

Flesh-eating flies are eating their way through Mexico, CDC warns

Tue

Macaque facial gestures are more than just a reflex, study finds

Tue

Netflix to pay all cash for Warner Bros. to fend off Paramount hostile takeover

Tue

Sony is giving TCL control over its high-end Bravia TVs

Tue

The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch

Tue

NASA’s Artemis II rocket rolls to launch pad, but key test looms ahead

Mon

The first new Marathon game in decades will launch on March 5

Mon

Signs point to a sooner-rather-than-later M5 MacBook Pro refresh

Mon

Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft

Mon

Asus confirms its smartphone business is on indefinite hiatus

Mon

Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination

Mon

The race to build a super-large ground telescope is likely down to two competitors

Mon

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow

Mon

10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

Mon

Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change

Sun

Meta’s layoffs leave Supernatural fitness users in mourning

Sat

Managers on alert for “launch fever” as pressure builds for NASA’s Moon mission

Sat

Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike

Fri

Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark

Fri

Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

Fri

This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying

Fri

This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying

Fri

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

Fri

Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Fri

RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

Fri

Calif. counters FCC attack on DEI with conditions on Verizon/Frontier merger

Fri

TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings

Fri

Feds give Tesla another five weeks to respond to FSD probe

Fri

Ferrari doing what it does best: The 12Cilindri review

Fri

Mother of one of Elon Musk’s offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes

Fri

Rocket Report: Ariane 64 to debut soon; India has a Falcon 9 clone too?

Fri

“I am very annoyed”: Pharma execs blast RFK Jr.’s attack on vaccines

Thu

Why I’m withholding certainty that “precise” US cyber-op disrupted Venezuelan electricity

Thu

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy tries something different, and I don’t hate it

Thu

NASA’s first-ever medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown

Thu

Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal

Thu

ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

Thu

Six months later, Trump Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones

Thu

Are people avoiding iOS 26 because of Liquid Glass? It’s complicated.

Thu

Many Bluetooth devices with Google Fast Pair vulnerable to “WhisperPair” hack

Thu

Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch

Thu

Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

Thu

Key Senate staffer is “begging” NASA to get on with commercial space stations

Thu

US government to take 25% cut of AMD, NVIDIA AI sales to China

Thu

The difficulty of driving an EV in the “most beautiful race in the world”

Thu

A car you can chat with and that gets you? Volvo dishes on AI-wielding EX60.

Thu

A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces

Thu

Pentagon’s “Arsenal of Freedom” tour borrows name from Star Trek episode—about killer AI

Wed

SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined

Wed

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Wed

I can’t stop shooting Oddcore’s endless waves of weird little guys

Wed

FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch

Wed

US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk

Jan 14

Musk claims Grok made “literally zero” naked child sex images as probes begin

Jan 14

Federal data underscores meteoric rise of streaming subscription prices in 2025

Jan 14

Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition”

Jan 14

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Jan 14

Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems—then had massive stroke

Jan 14

Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach

Jan 14

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

Jan 14

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

Jan 14

EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines

Jan 14

Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes.

Jan 14

BMW’s first electric M car is coming in 2027—with one motor per wheel

Jan 13

The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”

Jan 13

Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”

Jan 13

Instagram user fights DHS for the right to post ICE sightings anonymously

Jan 13

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies

Jan 13

Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

Jan 13

Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

Jan 13

Google’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling

Jan 13

Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests

Jan 13

EPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air

Jan 13

Apple’s Mac and iPad creative apps get bundled into “Creator Studio” subscription

Jan 13

Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, dead at 68

Jan 13

This one could use less power: The Jeep Wagoneer S EV

Jan 13