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Honda will sell off historic racing parts, including bits of Senna’s V10

3h ago 2m read

Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems

8h ago 2m read

“Chaos” at state health agencies after US illegally axed grants, lawsuit says

9h ago 2m read

Apple enables RCS messaging for Google Fi subscribers at last

9h ago 2m read

What we’re expecting from Nintendo’s Switch 2 announcement Wednesday

9h ago 2m read

How a 1980s Atari creator with cystic fibrosis crafted a story of salmon survival

10h ago 2m read

Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines

10h ago 3m read

Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows

11h ago 2m read

FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm’s privacy promises for genetic data

12h ago 3m read

Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

12h ago 2m read

Review: Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft is something less than “a Paperwhite with color”

12h ago 2m read

Gemini is an increasingly good chatbot, but it’s still a bad assistant

13h ago 2m read

Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles

13h ago 3m read

DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge

16h ago 2m read

Tuesday Telescope: On Mars, the rovers take pictures of robotic arms and rocks

17h ago 2m read

MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together

18h ago 2m read

With new Gen-4 model, Runway claims to have finally achieved consistency in AI videos

Mon 2m read

Apple updates all its operating systems, brings Apple Intelligence to Vision Pro

Mon 2m read

DOGE accesses federal payroll system and punishes employees who objected

Mon 2m read

Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon

Mon 2m read

Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it

Mon 2m read

Even Trump may not be able to save Elon Musk from his old tweets

Mon 2m read

There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs

Mon 1m read

The 2025 BMW M5 Touring review: Way more power, way too much weight

Mon 3m read

Google’s new experimental Gemini 2.5 model rolls out to free users

Mon 2m read

Europe’s quest to finally land on Mars takes another turn

Mon 2m read

Europe’s first private launch company is learning to embrace failure

Mon 2m read

Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk’s crosshairs

Mon 2m read

Trump on car tariffs: “I couldn’t care less if they raise prices”

Mon 2m read

Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs

Mon 2m read

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars

Sun 2m read

What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

Sat 2m read

The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations

Sat 8m read

Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI

Fri 2m read

New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatory

Fri 2m read

Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.

Fri 3m read

Scientists are storing light we cannot see in formats meant for human eyes

Fri 3m read

Report: US scientists lost $3 billion in NIH grants since Trump took office

Fri 2m read

Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII

Fri 2m read

Google discontinues Nest Protect smoke alarm and Nest x Yale lock

Fri 2m read

Ex-FCC chairs from both parties say CBS news distortion investigation is bogus

Fri 3m read

NASA to put Starliner’s thrusters through an extensive workout before next launch

Fri 2m read

Google solves its mysterious Pixel problem, announces 9a launch date

Fri 2m read

Corning’s new Apple-like ceramic glass might save your next phone from disaster

Fri 2m read

Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas

Fri 2m read

What to make of Nintendo’s mention of new “Switch 2 Edition games”

Fri 2m read

Gran Turismo 7 gets an NPC upgrade with improved GT Sophy AI

Fri 2m read

Tel‘Aran’Rhiod at last—the Wheel of Time reveals the world of dreams

Fri 17m read

EU will go easy with Apple, Facebook punishment to avoid Trump’s wrath

Fri 2m read

Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini

Fri 3m read

Rocket Report: Stoke is stoked; sovereignty is the buzzword in Europe

Fri 2m read

Trump can’t fire us, FTC Democrats tell court after being ejected from office

Thu 3m read

Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

Thu 2m read

Google announces Maps screenshot analysis, AI itineraries to help you plan trips

Thu 1m read

Discord is planning an IPO this year, and big changes could be on the horizon

Thu 1m read

Elon Musk and Trump win fight to keep DOGE’s work secret

Thu 2m read

Pillars of Eternity is getting turn-based combat, all but demanding replays

Thu 2m read

As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration

Thu 3m read

“This will be a painful period”: RFK Jr. slashes 24% of US health dept.

Thu 2m read

Nintendo’s new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained

Thu 2m read

Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors

Thu 2m read

Maybe Trump should go back to calling his missile shield the Iron Dome

Thu 3m read

Auto industry braces for chaos as Trump sets 25% tariff on all imports

Thu 2m read

TSMC’s $100 billion pledge won’t resurrect US chipmaking, says Intel’s ex-CEO

Thu 2m read

OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke

Thu 4m read

After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

Thu 2m read

After a spacecraft was damaged en route to launch, NASA says it won’t launch

Wed 2m read

Newer Kindles get a work-around for touchscreen page-turning in new software update

Wed 1m read

Measles quickly spreading in Kansas counties with alarmingly low vaccination

Wed 2m read

With Vulcan’s certification, Space Force is no longer solely reliant on SpaceX

Wed 2m read

Texts disprove Trump admin claim that no bombing plans were sent to reporter

Wed 2m read

Also, a Rivian EV spinoff, wants us to “move beyond cars”

Wed 2m read

Gemini 2.5 Pro is here with bigger numbers and great vibes

Wed 2m read

F1’s cruel side is on show as Red Bull to fire Liam Lawson after 2 races

Wed 2m read

Discredited anti-vaccine advocate will lead CDC study on vaccines and autism

Wed 2m read

Broadcom’s VMware says Siemens pirated “thousands” of copies of its software

Wed 2m read

Lawsuits targeting diversity efforts in science are multiplying

Wed 2m read

Does all intelligent life face a Great Filter?

Wed 2m read

Firm wins Space Force funding to provide an “aircraft carrier” in orbit

Wed 2m read

ESA finally has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?

Wed 2m read

RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in CDC funding amid wave of top-level departures

Tue 2m read

Praise Kier for Severance season 2! Let’s discuss.

Tue 2m read

No cloud needed: Nvidia creates gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs on your GPU

Tue 2m read

Napster to become a music-marketing metaverse firm after $207M acquisition

Tue 2m read

We’ve outsourced our confirmation biases to search engines

Tue 2m read

FBI probes arson of Tesla cars and facilities, says “this is domestic terrorism”

Tue 2m read

Momentum seems to be building for Jared Isaacman to become NASA administrator

Tue 2m read

Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line

Tue 2m read

After DDOS attacks, Blizzard rolls back Hardcore WoW deaths for the first time

Tue 2m read

Report: Boeing asks Trump admin to weaken penalties in 737 Max crash case

Tue 2m read

Netflix expands HDR support with HDR10+

Tue 2m read

Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

Tue 2m read

How Polestar engineers EVs that can handle brutal winters

Tue 2m read

As preps continue, it’s looking more likely NASA will fly the Artemis II mission

Mar 24 3m read

UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first

Mar 24 2m read

You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

Mar 24 3m read

After borking my Pixel 4a battery, Google borks me, too

Mar 24 2m read

Trump administration accidentally texted secret bombing plans to a reporter

Mar 24 2m read

Should we be concerned about the loss of weather balloons?

Mar 24 2m read

Current SEC chair cast only vote against suing Elon Musk, report says

Mar 24 2m read