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Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed

14h ago

Achieving lasting remission for HIV

Sat

Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forget to secure a 20-ton service platform

Fri

Here are the best Black Friday deals we can find

Fri

Reintroduced carnivores’ impacts on ecosystems are still coming into focus

Fri

We put the new pocket-size vinyl format to the test—with mixed results

Fri

Blast from the past: 15 movie gems of 1985

Thu

Four-inch worm hatches in woman’s forehead, wriggles to her eyelid

Thu

ULA aimed to launch up to 10 Vulcan rockets this year—it will fly just once

Wed

Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use

Wed

RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines

Wed

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

Wed

HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

Wed

Russia’s Soyuz 5 will soon come alive. But will anyone want to fly on it?

Wed

Vision Pro M5 review: It’s time for Apple to make some tough choices

Wed

Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble

Wed

Tech firm’s new CTO gets indicted; company then claims he was never CTO

Wed

Many genes associated with dog behavior influence human personalities, too

Wed

There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests

Tue

Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

Tue

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere

Tue

China launches an emergency lifeboat to bring three astronauts back to Earth

Tue

RealPage agrees to change algorithm so landlords can’t collude on price hikes

Tue

Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

Tue

Formation of oceans within icy moons could cause the waters to boil

Tue

Mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art, and science

Tue

Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model

Mon

Rivals object to SpaceX’s Starship plans in Florida—who’s interfering with whom?

Mon

Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition

Mon

Why synthetic emerald-green pigments degrade over time

Mon

It’s official: Boeing’s next flight of Starliner will be allowed to carry cargo only

Mon

F1 in Las Vegas: This sport is a 200 mph soap opera

Mon

UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push

Mon

Rocket Lab chief opens up about Neutron delays, New Glenn’s success, and NASA science

Mon

“Go generate a bridge and jump off it”: How video pros are navigating AI

Mon

This hacker conference installed a literal antivirus monitoring system

Nov 22

Cryptography group cancels election results after official loses secret key

Nov 22

Why you don’t want to get tuberculosis on your penis

Nov 21

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now

Nov 21

Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser

Nov 21

How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers

Nov 21

Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

Nov 21

AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins

Nov 21

Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China

Nov 21

Data-driven sport: How Red Bull and AT&T move terabytes of F1 info

Nov 21

Keep your receipts: Tech firms told to prepare for possible tariff refunds

Nov 21

Chris Hemsworth and dad fight Alzheimer’s with a trip down memory lane

Nov 21

First revealed in spy photos, a Bronze Age city emerges from the steppe

Nov 21

Rocket Report: SpaceX’s next-gen booster fails; Pegasus will fly again

Nov 21

Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

Nov 21

Newest Starship booster is significantly damaged during testing early Friday

Nov 21

Stoke Space goes for broke to solve the only launch problem that “moves the needle”

Nov 21

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

Nov 20

From defiant to contrite: Formula maker confirms bacteria amid botulism outbreak

Nov 20

Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License

Nov 20

Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables

Nov 20

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop

Nov 20

Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws

Nov 20

Blue Origin revealed some massively cool plans for its New Glenn rocket

Nov 20

Google’s latest swing at Chromebook gaming is a free year of GeForce Now

Nov 20

Flying with whales: Drones are remaking marine mammal research

Nov 20

“Hey Google, did you upgrade your AI in my Android Auto?”

Nov 20

Google’s new Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini 3 power to generate more realistic AI images

Nov 20

RFK Jr.’s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism

Nov 20

Attack, defend, pursue—the Space Force’s new naming scheme foretells new era

Nov 20

In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon

Nov 20

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults

Nov 20

“We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one

Nov 19

NASA really wants you to know that 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet

Nov 19

Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

Nov 19

Rocket Lab Electron among first artifacts installed in CA Science Center space gallery

Nov 19

He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement

Nov 19

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

Nov 19

Testing shows Apple N1 Wi-Fi chip improves on older Broadcom chips in every way

Nov 19

Celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at age 62

Nov 19

DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs

Nov 19

How Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion—and what it reveals about AI

Nov 19

Twin suction turbines and 3-Gs in slow corners? Meet the DRG-Lola.

Nov 19

OnePlus 15 review: The end of range anxiety

Nov 19

GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it

Nov 18

Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action; they arrest her for illegal surveillance

Nov 18

CDC data confirms US is 2 months away from losing measles elimination status

Nov 18

Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead

Nov 18

Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on

Nov 18

Microsoft tries to head off the “novel security risks” of Windows 11 AI agents

Nov 18

The Analogue 3D is the modern N64 fans have been waiting for

Nov 18

Bonkers Bitcoin heist: 5-star hotels, cash-filled envelopes, vanishing funds

Nov 18

Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

Nov 18

Google unveils Gemini 3 AI model and AI-first IDE called Antigravity

Nov 18

Ryan Gosling must save dying stars in Project Hail Mary trailer

Nov 18

Tesla safety driver falls asleep during passenger’s robotaxi ride

Nov 18

Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

Nov 18

Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants

Nov 17

With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again

Nov 17

5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs

Nov 17

UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks

Nov 17

Judge smacks down Texas AG’s request to immediately block Tylenol ads

Nov 17

After last week’s stunning landing, here’s what comes next for Blue Origin

Nov 17

Report claims that Apple has yet again put the Mac Pro “on the back burner”

Nov 17

Benoit Blanc takes on a “perfectly impossible crime” in Wake Up Dead Man trailer

Nov 17