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Microsoft will continue to have a license to OpenAI IP through 2032, but Microsoft's license is now non-exclusive, allowing OpenAI to serve its products across any cloud provider . Microsoft will stop

Recent research found that participants exposed to infrasound reported increased irritation, unease, and elevated stress levels regardless of other conditions. While infrasound appears to be one contr

Super ZSNES is a modern SNES emulator created by two of the original ZSNES developers, zsKnight and _Demo_, which has been rewritten from scratch as a GPU-powered successor. The emulator uses GPU acce

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission, comprising astronauts from the

Prime Video released the official full trailer for Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir TV show, a live-action series about Ben Reilly . The eight-episode series premieres on MGM+ May 25, 2026 before rolling ou

The teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 boasts a decidedly more adventurous vibe. The teaser has a much more traditional Trek feel with a voice-over about the power of exploration and sh

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen surpassed the record for human spaceflight's farthest distance from Earth on April 6,

Current and former Palantir employees have expressed concerns about the company's 'descent into fascism,' particularly following the company's involvement in the Trump administration's crackdowns on c

Twelve companies including Anduril, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX, and others have received contracts to develop space-based interceptor prototypes for Golden Dome , with

Porsche has agreed to sell its 45% stake in Bugatti Rimac to a consortium led by HOF Capital , ending its involvement in the 2021 joint venture with Rimac Group. Porsche will also divest its 20.6% sta

Europe authorized Moderna's combination mRNA flu-COVID vaccine before the United States did. This dual-purpose vaccine addresses two respiratory viruses in a single shot. The European Commission grant

The FCC has expanded its foreign-made router ban to also cover consumer Wi-Fi hotspots and LTE/5G home-internet devices, though existing products and phones with hotspot features are not affected. Cel

Google-parent Alphabet will invest up to 40 billion in Anthropic, deepening its partnership with the AI startup . The deal consists of 10 billion in immediate cash at a 350 billion valuation, with an

Fossilized jaws reveal that enormous octopuses growing up to 19 meters long were top predators in the oceans during the Cretaceous Period, potentially making them the largest marine animals and invert

Samsung's mobile division may record its first-ever annual loss in 2026 , driven primarily by rising memory chip prices, particularly low-power DRAM . Samsung executive TM Roh has warned that a possib

NASA successfully rolled out the Artemis III core stage on April 20, 2026, delivering it from Michoud Assembly Facility to Kennedy Space Center . The revised mission plan calls for a crewed test in Ea

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after 15 years, during which he transformed the company from a 350 billion valuation to a 4 trillion powerhouse. His legacy centers on operational leadership and

A U.S. Army Special Forces soldier was charged with using classified information about the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to win more than 400,000 in bets on the Pol

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent the last year attempting to weaken the Endangered Species Act, but one major effort faced a significant setback when Republicans in th

NASA has put its Lunar Gateway space station project on hold because of corrosion found in two main modules, HALO and I-HAB. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testified before Congress that both the L

The base model $599 M4 Mac mini with 256GB storage is now completely out of stock on Apple's Store with no option to order it. Other Mac mini configurations face significant delays, with wait times ra

The 2027 BMW 7 Series is the most extensive update the car has ever received, with BMW rolling its next-generation Neue Klasse technology into a current-production model for the first time. The electr

Researchers have developed copper-coated carbon nanotube fibers with electrical conductivity reaching approximately 50% that of pure copper , representing significant progress toward competitive alter

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is targeting launch as early as September 2026, ahead of the May 2027 deadline. The telescope is ready for launch ahead of schedule and under budget. Roman wil

Data center facilities linked to major tech companies could emit 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, potentially surpassing the total emissions of entire nations like Morocco. Tech companie

A ransomware gang called Kyber became the first known ransomware operation to deploy NIST standardized post-quantum cryptography in production. The Windows variant uses Kyber1024 post-quantum key enca

The White House accused foreign entities primarily based in China of conducting deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI systems using tens of thousands of proxy accounts . W

Russia's co-orbital anti-satellite system, known as the Nivelir system, can deploy so-called nesting doll sub-satellites for inspection or kinetic kills. The U.S. assesses that Russia has launched cou

Vast, a company developing the world's first commercial space station, has adopted a custom flight suit for its crew after 25 years of U.S. astronauts wearing off-the-rack clothes in orbit. The suit i

A decade-long precision measurement of the gravitational constant (G) at NIST yielded a value 0.0235% lower than a previous French experiment , but the result does not resolve the uncertainty in G, wh

Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan as a small experiment affecting approximately 2% of new prosumer signups, while existing Pro and Max subscribers remained unaffecte

ChargePoint has unveiled the ChargePoint Express Grid, powered by Eaton, a vehicle-to-everything capable solution that delivers up to 600 kW of power for passenger EVs and megawatt charging for heavy-

The trailer for 'Coyote vs. Acme' has been released, offering a first look at the long-delayed live-action/animation hybrid ahead of its theatrical debut Aug. 28. The film follows Wile E. Coyote as he

Scammers are impersonating Iranian authorities and sending fraudulent messages to shipowners demanding Bitcoin or USDT payments for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The Athens-based firm MAR

Google unveiled two eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units—the TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference—designed with specialized architectures for AI model training and agent development. The

A 22-year-old Indian medical student created an AI-generated social media persona named 'Emily Hart' to target MAGA audiences, generating thousands of dollars through merchandise sales and paid subscr

Two Nintendo customers filed a class action lawsuit against Nintendo following the Supreme Court's ruling that President Trump's 2025 tariffs were illegal, seeking to force the company to return tarif

Microsoft issued an emergency update for ASP.NET Core

A federal judge in Massachusetts struck down several Trump administration actions slowing down clean energy development, including a requirement that all solar and wind projects on federal lands and w

Ars Technica's newsroom AI policy forbids unlabeled AI material in reported stories and requires human confirmation of every quotation's accuracy. The publication does not permit the publication of AI

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to researchers who measured the magnetic 'wobble' of the muon subatomic particle with exceptional precision over more than 60 years of ex

The FBI is looking for any connections among the recent deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists who had ties to government science projects or other sensitive information. At least 10 indi

Tesla reported Q1 2026 earnings-per-share of 0.41 and revenues of 22.387 billion, beating analysts' EPS expectation of 0.37 and estimated revenue of 21.92 billion. While the company reported better-th

Amazon announced a 5 billion investment in Anthropic, with up to 20 billion more tied to commercial milestones. Anthropic committed to spending over $100 billion on AWS technologies over the next deca

CATL's third-generation Shenxing battery can charge from 10% to 98% in 6 minutes and 27 seconds , achieving what sets a new global record for fast charging . The new LFP battery can retain over 90% of

AES-128 remains secure against quantum computers and does not require key size changes as part of the post-quantum transition. NIST considers AES-128 safe and has made it the security benchmark for po