NASA via Getty Images The extreme weather events and resulting destruction that have hit New Zealand this summer are not only signs of a changing climate. They also highlight the now indispensable role of remote… Read more: Satellite imaging is now vital for disaster management. But there are dangerous gaps in our systems

Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for JBS Foods are paralyzed as an $11 million ransomware attack takes out their processing facilities. Some 2.2… Read more: AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains

Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI — especially about the tech’s effects on the environment. From today’s vantage point, some of the corporate claims floating around back… Read more: Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative

Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI surveillance company whose CEO wants to end all crime within the decade by blanketing the country in… Read more: Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse

An AI “filmmaker” was viciously mocked after begging his followers for ideas on what to make. “I will have 30k to make a fully AI film, what’s the plan?” wrote the filmmaker, Ian Durar, in… Read more: AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make

By any measure, 2025 is the year artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly shifted the way we work, interact with each other and engage with the world at large. It has also made undeniable the enduring reality… Read more: How AI resurrects racist stereotypes and disinformation — and why fact-checking isn’t enough

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite predating the antibiotic era, this… Read more: Frozen for 5,000 years, this ice cave bacterium resists modern antibiotics

Flea and tick medications trusted by pet owners worldwide may have an unexpected environmental cost. Scientists found that active ingredients from isoxazoline treatments pass into pet feces, exposing dung-feeding insects to toxic chemicals. These insects… Read more: Flea and tick treatments for dogs and cats may be harming wildlife

Triceratops’ massive head may have been doing more than just showing off those famous horns. Using CT scans and 3D reconstructions of fossil skulls, researchers uncovered a surprisingly complex nasal system hidden inside its enormous… Read more: Triceratops had a giant nose that may have cooled its massive head

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no … Readers reply: what would be the most socially useful way… Read more: What would happen to the world if computer said yes?

The fast take-up of innovative technology risks creating a ‘two-speed system’, an Independent Schools Australia paper warns Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Once upon a time, school students would… Read more: In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried

Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’ Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt… Read more: Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct

New research published Thursday bolsters growing concerns that a handful of companies and countries are using the global atmospheric commons as a dumping ground for potentially toxic and climate-altering industrial waste byproducts from loosely regulated… Read more: Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere

The point of making an apology is that it should be sincere. It also helps if you put some actual effort into making it. A judge in New Zealand is being forced to mull over… Read more: Woman Uses AI to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop

Looking at the state of labor in the US, it can be hard to believe that 35 percent of all workers once belonged to a union. That was back in the 1940s, the peak of… Read more: AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty

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“Edge computing”, which was initially developed to make big data processing faster and more secure, has now been combined with AI to offer a cloud-free solution. Everyday connected appliances from dishwashers to cars or smartphones are… Read more: What is ‘Edge AI’? What does it do and what can be gained from this alternative to cloud computing?

Overdependence on chatbots is a growing problem, and though your boyfriend’s ADHD may be a factor, he needs to find the root of his anxiety My boyfriend of eight years, who is 44, has ADHD… Read more: I’m worried my boyfriend’s use of AI is affecting his ability to think for himself | Annalisa Barbieri

A day after NASA officials expressed optimism that they could be ready to launch the Artemis II mission around the Moon next month, the space agency’s administrator announced Saturday that a new problem will require… Read more: NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs

Is Hollywood “cooked”? Do video generating AI models mean its “over” for filmmakers? The jury’s out on that. But according to one Hollywood insider, the whole industry is “lying” about how much AI they’re using.… Read more: Hollywood Is Lying to Everyone About How Much AI They’re Using, Says Consummate Hollywood Insider

There’s a special type of guy who looks at the gig economy — Uber drivers lost in a labyrinthian bureaucracy, Kenyan workers roleplaying as AI romance chatbots — and thinks: what if these people worked… Read more: Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero

It’s bad enough that ChatGPT is prone to making stuff up completely on its own. But it turns out that you can easily trick the AI into peddling ridiculous lies — that you invented —… Read more: It’s Comically Easy to Trick ChatGPT Into Saying Things About People That Are Completely Untrue

A veteran programmer shared his brutally honest opinions about AI’s role in the workplace, and it’s as much an indictment of the tech as it is of the organizations lazily deploying it. In an X… Read more: Developer’s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative

Being one of the most despised men in America does come with a few downsides, it turns out. As Elon Musk is set to stand trial in San Francisco’s federal court for allegedly manipulating Twitter’s… Read more: Court Having Trouble Assembling Jury for Elon Musk Because People Hate Him So Much

Living at high altitude appears to protect against diabetes, and scientists have finally discovered the reason. When oxygen levels drop, red blood cells switch into a new metabolic mode and absorb large amounts of glucose… Read more: Scientists discover why high altitude protects against diabetes

Researchers have mapped the genetic risk of hemochromatosis across the UK and Ireland for the first time, uncovering striking hotspots in north-west Ireland and the Outer Hebrides. In some regions, around one in 60 people… Read more: “Celtic curse” hotspots found in Scotland and Ireland with 1 in 54 at risk

The AI industry’s obsession with building out enormous data centers to house power-hungry chips has put a major strain on the electronics market. First, the price of graphical processing units (GPUs) started shooting through the… Read more: Personal Electronics Spiking in Price as AI Industry Buys Up All the Components

Are AI tools reliable enough to be used at in commercial settings? If so, should they be given “autonomy” to make decisions? These are the questions being raised after at least two internet outages at… Read more: Amazon’s Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages

Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, we have a very special edition of the newsletter packed with everything I saw and heard at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting, held… Read more: At the World’s Largest General Science Meeting, Surviving Trump Is the Topic

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of geologic… Read more: Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils

Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land When two men knocked on Ida Huddleston’s door last May, they carried a contract worth more than $33m in… Read more: US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’

One of the US government’s top scientific research labs is taking steps that could drive away foreign scientists, a shift lawmakers and sources tell WIRED could cost the country valuable expertise and damage the agency’s… Read more: Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists

Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic contributions to behaviors ranging from mental… Read more: Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

Astronomers have uncovered one of the most mysterious galaxies ever found — a dim, ghostly object called CDG-2 that is almost entirely made of dark matter. Located 300 million light-years away in the Perseus galaxy… Read more: NASA’s Hubble spots nearly invisible “ghost galaxy” made of 99% dark matter

For the first time, scientists have mapped Uranus’s upper atmosphere in three dimensions, tracking temperatures and charged particles up to 5,000 kilometers above the clouds. Webb’s sharp vision revealed glowing auroral bands and unexpected dark… Read more: James Webb Space Telescope captures strange magnetic forces warping Uranus

Researchers tested whether generative AI could handle complex medical datasets as well as human experts. In some cases, the AI matched or outperformed teams that had spent months building prediction models. By generating usable analytical… Read more: Generative AI analyzes medical data faster than human research teams

Scientists may have spotted a long-sought triplet superconductor — a material that can transmit both electricity and electron spin with zero resistance. That ability could dramatically stabilize quantum computers while slashing their energy use. Early… Read more: Scientists may have found the holy grail of quantum computing

A common bacterium best known for causing pneumonia and sinus infections may also play a surprising role in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found that Chlamydia pneumoniae can invade the retina and brain, where it sparks inflammation,… Read more: Common pneumonia bacterium may fuel Alzheimer’s disease

After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systems Bernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have “not a clue”… Read more: ‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution

Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s account for ‘furtherance of violent activities’ ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later… Read more: OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago

A grim scoop from the Wall Street Journal: an automated review system at OpenAI flagged disturbing conversations that a future mass shooter was having with the company’s flagship AI ChatGPT — but, despite being urged… Read more: OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter’s Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police

Shortly after Discord announced that all users will soon be defaulted to teen experiences until their ages are verified, the messaging platform faced immediate backlash. One of the major complaints was that Discord planned to… Read more: Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK

Members of the Make America Health Again movement are in open revolt after founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly backed President Trump’s executive order Wednesday that would increase domestic production of glyphosate—a pesticide the MAHA… Read more: MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as RFK Jr. flips on pesticide

Microsoft Executive Vice President for Gaming Phil Spencer announced he will retire after 38 years at Microsoft and 12 years leading the company’s video game efforts. Asha Sharma, an executive currently in charge of Microsoft’s… Read more: Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company

A second fueling test on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket ended Thursday night, giving senior managers enough confidence to move forward with plans to launch four astronauts around the Moon as soon as March 6.… Read more: NASA reports no significant leaks in Artemis II fueling test, eyes March 6 launch

Meta announced today that it will divorce its Horizon Worlds social and gaming service—once promoted as the company’s first major step into the metaverse—from its Quest VR headset platform and digital store. The company says… Read more: Meta’s flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today urged broadcasters to join a “Pledge America Campaign” that Carr established to support President Trump’s “Salute to America 250” project. Carr said in a press release that “I… Read more: FCC asks stations for “pro-America” programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance

Stuffing an AI chatbot into a consumer electronics device and turning out with a product people actually want has proven extremely difficult. We’ve come across creepy and widely-hated pendants designed to listen to everything you… Read more: OpenAI’s Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe

Google used AI-driven review systems to block 1.75 million policy-violating apps and ban 80,000 developer accounts in 2025, expanding Play Store and Android security enforcement. The post Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store… Read more: Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store in 2025

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block. Earlier this month, the company started laying off its staff as part of what Bloomberg characterized as an… Read more: Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, is now also the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an unusual arrangement that has drawn swift criticism from researchers and… Read more: With NIH in chaos, its controversial director is taking over CDC, too

For a long time now, PC gamers have been used to the Final Fantasy series treating their platform as somewhat secondary to the game’s core console versions. There are some signs that may be starting… Read more: Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its “lead platform”

The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should… Read more: Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

For my money, the 2004 Game Boy Advance re-releases of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are still the best versions of the original Pokémon games. They fixed most of the bugs and balance issues present in the originals—partly by also… Read more: Pokémon Red and Green’s GBA remakes are getting re-released on Switch for $20 a pop

With HBO’s critically acclaimed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms gearing up for its season finale on Sunday, it’s time to check in on that other Game of Thrones spinoff: the far darker House of the… Read more: It’s outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to about 1.77 million… Read more: “Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans

AI in the APAC retail sector is transitioning from analytics and pilots into workflows and daily operations. Dense urban stores, high labour churn, and competitive quick-commerce ecosystems are driving the uptake. A Q4 2025 survey… Read more: Exploring AI in the APAC retail sector

Narendra Modi’s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world’s biggest democracy India celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same… Read more: AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists with the U.S. military have revived microbes frozen in Alaskan… Read more: The U.S. Military Is Reviving Microbes from 40,000-Year-Old Ice

Controversy over the chatbot Grok escalated rapidly through the early weeks of 2026. The cause was revelations about its alleged ability to generate sexualised images of women and children in response to requests from users… Read more: The furore over Grok’s sexualised images has begun an AI reckoning

FlashLabs today announced the official launch of FlashAI 2.0, a next-generation enterprise voice AI platform built to power human-level AI voice agents for customer experience, sales automation, and contact center operations. FlashAI 2.0 eliminates the infrastructure complexity, robotic speech patterns,… Read more: FlashLabs Announced the Launch of FlashAI 2.0

Amazon’s cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools, leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant’s push to roll out these coding assistants.… Read more: An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services

Last night, Tesla made some hefty cuts to Cybertruck pricing in an effort to stimulate some sales. The bombastic tri-motor “Cyberbeast” is $15,000 cheaper at $99,990, albeit by dropping some previously free features like supercharging… Read more: Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal

Scammers used a fake Gemini AI chatbot to promote a bogus Google Coin presale, signaling a rise in AI-driven crypto impersonation fraud. The post Scammers Use Fake Gemini AI Chatbot for Crypto Scam appeared first… Read more: Scammers Use Fake Gemini AI Chatbot for Crypto Scam

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Donald Trump was not authorized to implement emergency tariffs to ostensibly block illegal drug flows and offset trade deficits. It’s not immediately clear what the ruling may mean for… Read more: Supreme Court blocks Trump’s emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss parenting blogs, Pinterest sawing its own legs… Read more: Behind the Blog: Nothing to Hide Here

Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.

XYPRO, a PartnerOne company and market leader of security and compliance solutions for mission-critical systems, introduces Lionel, an internal AI assistant designed to unlock institutional knowledge across the HPE Nonstop Compute ecosystem. This marks a… Read more: PartnerOne Continues Investment in AI with XYPRO Applied AI Technology

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, these elusive quakes turn out to… Read more: Scientists just mapped mysterious earthquakes deep inside Earth

Qubits, the heart of quantum computers, can change performance in fractions of a second — but until now, scientists couldn’t see it happening. Researchers at NBI have built a real-time monitoring system that tracks these… Read more: Quantum computer breakthrough tracks qubit fluctuations in real time

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while digital-style encoding could theoretically… Read more: Scientists reveal why human language isn’t like computer code

Exercise may sharpen the mind by repairing the brain’s protective shield. Researchers found that physical activity prompts the liver to release an enzyme that removes a harmful protein causing the blood-brain barrier to become leaky… Read more: Scientists reveal how exercise protects the brain from Alzheimer’s

Anthropic aired a spicy ad during this year’s Super Bowl, skewering competitor OpenAI’s decision to cram ChatGPT with ads for users who don’t pay for a subscription. “Ads are coming to AI,” the ad’s tagline… Read more: Look Out, OpenAI: Perplexity Admits AI Adverts Were a Mistake, Is Now Getting Rid of Them

GDP grew 1.4% last quarter, down from economists’ forecast of 3%, though AI and tax cuts could boost growth this year Business live – latest updates US economic growth slowed more than expected in the… Read more: US economic growth slowed in fourth quarter of 2025 amid government shutdown

AI has convinced computer science students to shift majors and white-collar workers to change careers, while some are embracing it Matthew Ramirez started at Western Governors University as a computer science major in 2025, drawn… Read more: Nascent tech, real fear: how AI anxiety is upending career ambitions

Software companies are facing major disruption from AI and investors are pulling back, wiping off billions in value – but does it spell the end for software-as-a-service? Get our breaking news email, free app or… Read more: Is the share market headed toward a ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ – and what would that mean?

It’s not just harder to deal with incidents in modern hybrid IT setups; it’s a whole new problem. When you have on-prem systems, multiple clouds, edge services, and everything else, things break in more places… Read more: How AI is reinventing incident response in hybrid IT

Chip manufacturer to invest in return for stock after previous ‘circular’ $100bn deal dissolved earlier this month Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, is reportedly planning to invest $30bn (£22bn) in OpenAI’s next funding round,… Read more: Nvidia reportedly plans to invest $30bn in OpenAI’s next funding round

Welcome to Edition 8.30 of the Rocket Report! As I write this week’s edition, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is undergoing a second countdown rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The outcome of the test… Read more: Rocket Report: Chinese launch firm raises big money; Falcon 9 back to the Bahamas

Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI slop.… Read more: Microsoft removes guide on how to train LLMs on pirated Harry Potter books

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?

Apple may be headquartered in Cupertino, but its Austin presence is no secret; it’s become a recognized anchor in the city’s growing AI ecosystem. While Silicon Valley often grabs the headlines, Austin is proving it… Read more: Apple: Anchoring Austin’s AI ecosystem

The most rigorous international study of firm-level AI impact to date has landed, and its headline finding is more constructive than many expected. Across nearly 6,000 verified executives in four countries, AI has delivered modest… Read more: AI: Executives’ optimism about the future

Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.

Shifting from price hikes to persuasion, Coca-Cola’s latest strategy signals how AI is moving deeper into the core of corporate marketing. Recent coverage of the company’s leadership discussions shows that Coca-Cola is entering what executives… Read more: Coca-Cola turns to AI marketing as price-led growth slows

RingCentral’s trusted communications enhanced by OpenAI deliver high-fidelity, powerful AI experiences that drive business outcomes RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a global leader in AI-powered business communications, today announced it is integrating OpenAI to advance enterprise-grade voice AI. The… Read more: RingCentral Drives New Era of Enterprise Voice AI Performance with OpenAI

Realbotix Corp. (TSX-V: XBOT) (Frankfurt: 76M0.F) (OTC: XBOTF) (“Realbotix” or the “Company”), a leader in AI-powered humanoid robotics, announces the appointment of Eric Olsen as the Chief Operating Officer of Realbotix LLC, the Company’s U.S.… Read more: Realbotix Appoints Eric Olsen, as Chief Operating Officer

As enterprises race to operationalize AI across hybrid infrastructure, Itential provides the agentic operations platform that ensures every AI-driven action is orchestrated, governed, and auditable Itential, the leader in agentic operations for infrastructure, today announced… Read more: Itential Named to Futuriom 50 for Sixth Consecutive Year

Veteran finance leader joins Kong to help scale the business through its next stage of accelerated growth  Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, today announced that Bruce Felt has joined… Read more: Kong Names Bruce Felt as Chief Financial Officer

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different families of giant DNA… Read more: Giant virus discovery could rewrite the origin of complex life

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually giving rise to plants, animals, and fungi. But one major puzzle remained: how could these organisms have met… Read more: Scientists uncover oxygen-loving ancestor of all complex life

New Page Builder Agent expands Seismic’s current lineup of AI agents, transforming how teams create, manage, and scale go-to-market efforts to win with confidence Seismic, the global leader in AI-powered enablement, today announced its Winter… Read more: Seismic helps GTM teams close execution gaps in Winter 2026 Product Release

AI agents now operate across enterprise systems, creating new risk via prompt injection, plugins, and persistent memory. Here’s how to adapt security. The post AI Agents Are Quietly Redefining Enterprise Security Risk appeared first on… Read more: AI Agents Are Quietly Redefining Enterprise Security Risk

Exclusive: England and Wales charity to examine safeguards after Guardian exposed ‘very dangerous’ advice on Google AI Overviews ‘Very dangerous’: a Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI summaries Mind is launching a significant inquiry… Read more: Mind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigation

Information content manager Rosie Weatherley says harmful inaccuracies are presented as uncontroversial facts Mind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigation A year-long commission has been launched by Mind to examine AI… Read more: ‘Very dangerous’: a Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI Overviews

Reconstruction of the ancient Antikythera mechanism, WA Museum, Boola Bardip. Chris Olszewski, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Anyone who engages in serious dialogue with a Large Language Model (LLM) may get the impression they are… Read more: Is AI really ‘intelligent’? This philosopher says yes

A Georgia college student named Darian DeCruise has sued OpenAI, alleging that a recently deprecated version of ChatGPT “convinced him that he was an oracle” and “pushed him into psychosis.” This case, which was first… Read more: Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis

Large language models (LLMs) have been championed as tools that could democratize access to information worldwide, offering knowledge in a user-friendly interface regardless of a person’s background or location. However, new research from MIT’s Center… Read more: Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users

There’s something special about the gadget that “just works.” Technology can open opportunities for those devices but also complicate and weigh down products that have done just fine without things like sensors and software. So… Read more: Rubik’s WOWCube adds complexity, possibility by reinventing the puzzle cube

NASA on Thursday announced it has formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a “Type A” mishap, an acknowledgement that the test flight was a serious failure. As part of the… Read more: NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as “Type A” mishap, says agency made mistakes