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An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

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Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds

2h ago

Flexible feline spines shed light on "falling cat" problem

2h ago

Don't worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine "this year"

3h ago

2026 Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 debuts a new style of racing

4h ago

Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt

7h ago

“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US

9h ago

Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer

Sun

Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization

Sun

Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"

Sat

A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara

Sat

From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras

Sat

Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead

Fri

Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases

Fri

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

Fri

Google's new command line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data

Fri

Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

Fri

Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

Fri

How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery

Fri

Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI

Fri

Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials

Fri

Climate change sucks, but at least it won't kill your EV battery

Fri

Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance's Chinese apps

Fri

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

Fri

With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?

Fri

Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?

Fri

Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated

Fri

AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé

Fri

Which of these two arcades is the "world largest"—and does it matter?

Fri

Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad

Fri

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

Thu

MS exec: Microsoft's next console will play "Xbox and PC games"

Thu

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge

Thu

Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

Thu

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability

Thu

The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season

Thu

Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation

Thu

Nerve damage, energy management, and Apple TV: F1 in 2026 starts today

Thu

Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism

Thu

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations

Thu

Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

Thu

macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores

Thu

TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

Wed

Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space

Wed

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Wed

Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case

Wed

Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide "countdown"

Wed

After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases

Wed

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

Wed

The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race

Wed

MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price

Wed

Google Pixel 10a review: The sidegrade

Wed

Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?

Wed

The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited, colorful, lower-cost MacBook

Wed

No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon

Tue

Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

Tue

FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal

Tue

What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes

Tue

There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV

Tue

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

Tue

New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices

Tue

Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years

Tue

This is why our electricity bills are so high right now

Tue

As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"

Tue

Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure

Tue

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

Tue

With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy

Tue

Oops: South Korean cops lost $5M in seized crypto after leaking wallet password

Mon

Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US

Mon

Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry

Mon

$599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost

Mon

Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed

Mon

Apple's new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599

Mon

It's almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven

Mon

Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding

Mon

Trump FCC's equal-time crackdown doesn't apply equally—or at all—to talk radio

Mon

AMD will bring its "Ryzen AI" processors to standard desktop PCs for the first time

Mon

The strange animals that control their body heat

Mar 1

Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government

Feb 28

In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT

Feb 28

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space

Feb 28

The Air Force's new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put it

Feb 28

Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite

Feb 27

Photons that aren't actually there influence superconductivity

Feb 27

Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border

Feb 27

The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Feb 27

Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

Feb 27

How strong is New York's "illegal gambling" case against Valve's loot boxes?

Feb 27

And the award for the most improved EV goes to... the 2026 Toyota bZ

Feb 27

Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

Feb 27

NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return

Feb 27

NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return

Feb 27

How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac

Feb 27

Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

Feb 27

Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see.

Feb 27

Rocket Report: Vulcan "many months" from flying; Falcon 9 extends reuse milestone

Feb 27

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

Feb 26

Perplexity announces "Computer," an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Feb 26

xAI spent $7M building wall that barely muffles annoying power plant noise

Feb 26

The physics of squeaking sneakers

Feb 26