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Meta is raising the price of its entire Quest VR headset lineup due to an AI-driven squeeze on components required to make the headsets. Memory chips are in high demand from AI infrastructure expansio

Q-Day—the moment when quantum computers can break widely used cryptography—may be approaching faster than expected due to recent algorithmic and hardware advances. Advances in algorithms and design ar

SpaceX completed a full-duration static fire test of Starship V3, igniting all 33 Raptor 3 engines at Starbase and clearing the final major technical hurdle before Flight 12. The upgraded megarocket i

Grinex, a US-sanctioned Russia-linked cryptocurrency exchange, suspended operations after claiming a $13.1 million cyberattack by 'unfriendly states.' The Kyrgyzstan-based exchange, which facilitates

Three major advertising companies—Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP—settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations they colluded on anti-misinformation policies that reduced ad revenue for conserv

NASA's Artemis II mission took four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby in April 2026, marking the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. During the mission, the crew documented the Moon's topogr

Gemini now uses user interests and Google Photos to create personalized AI images without requiring long descriptions, allowing users to simply ask for pictures of themselves or family members. This f

Intel has revealed its new Core Series 3 mobile processor (codenamed Wildcat Lake), all fabricated on Intel 18A . The Core Series 3 is a value-focused counterpart to Panther Lake, which was revealed a

Lucasfilm released the final trailer for 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' during their presentation at CinemaCon, with the film opening in theaters on May 22. Director Jon Favreau also screened the first 1

Stellantis and Microsoft announced a five-year strategic collaboration to co-develop more than 100 AI initiatives across sales, customer care and operations . Examples include intelligent recommendati

Thunderbolt is a new open-source AI client from Mozilla-owned MZLA Technologies aimed at enterprises who want to run self-hosted chatbots on their own infrastructure. The platform allows organizations

OpenAI's Codex now features background computer use that lets multiple AI agents operate a Mac simultaneously without disrupting the user's own work. The update allows Codex to access all other apps o

China successfully tested an advanced device capable of cutting underwater structures like submarine cables at depths of 3,500 meters , raising global security concerns. Since more than 95% of global

OpenAI has launched GPT-Rosalind, a biology-tuned large language model . This specialized LLM is designed to enhance performance on biology-specific tasks and applications. The model represents OpenAI

In 2023, the FDA removed 19 peptides from the list of drugs that compounding pharmacies could produce, and in 2026 the FDA announced it will review whether to add back 7 of these peptides following pr

The U.S. and China are each planning to land spacecraft near the Moon's Shackleton crater in 2026, with whoever arrives first securing the best access to its water ice resources. Blue Origin's Blue Mo

Metro 2039 has been fundamentally shaped by Ukrainian developer 4A Games' experience of Russia's invasion, with the entire planned story reworked to reflect the real lives of those making it. The game

Adobe has introduced the **Firefly AI Assistant**, a new agentic tool that brings autonomous, multi-step workflow capabilities to Creative Cloud — drawing comparisons to AI coding agents like Claude C

Allbirds is abandoning its core footwear business and pivoting to AI compute infrastructure, backed by a $50 million convertible financing facility — more than double its prior market value. The move

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp announced a new stock option plan in March 2026, allowing all employees to participate and eventually convert vested options — a notable shift for the privately held aerospac

Boston Dynamics has integrated Google's Gemini and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 into its Orbit software platform, specifically its AI Visual Inspection systems, which analyze images captured by the Spot rob

Netgear became the first retail consumer router company to receive a conditional FCC exemption from the agency's ban on foreign-made routers, allowing it to introduce new models and push software upda

Florida surgeon Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of second-degree manslaughter in the August 2024 death of a 70-year-old Alabama man, after prosecutors allege that during

Prime Video released the official trailer for *Good Omens* Season 3 — a 90-minute series finale special rather than a full season — in which Michael Sheen and David Tennant's angel-demon duo Aziraphal

Google launched its 'Google app for desktop' for Windows 10 and 11 users globally on April 14, 2026, bringing Google Search, Drive, files, and apps directly to the desktop via a keyboard shortcut (Alt

As of Tax Day 2026, the IRS has issued no formal guidance on how to classify and report prediction market winnings, leaving traders and tax professionals in a grey area where gains could plausibly be

A Manhattan federal jury found on April 15, 2026, that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market , following a lawsuit brought by over 30

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year survey, producing the largest-ever 3D map of the universe using data from tens of millions of galaxies and quasars to study

The Ars Technica article covers the first teaser trailer for *Godzilla Minus Zero*, the sequel to the Oscar-winning *Godzilla Minus One*, which was debuted by writer/director Takashi Yamazaki at Cinem

During the NBA Play-In Tournament on April 15, 2026, Amazon Prime Video's stream of the Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets game went offline for nearly two minutes in overtime, with the audio feed cutti

The US Space Force is reassessing its launch strategy following repeated technical malfunctions experienced by ULA's Vulcan rocket, particularly issues with its solid boosters. These reliability conce

Security researcher Alexander Hagenah released 'TotalRecall Reloaded,' a tool that exploits a weakness in Windows 11's Recall feature by injecting a DLL payload into `AIXHost.exe` — the unprotected pr

Ford CEO Jim Farley, in an interview on Fox News, argued that Chinese EVs should not be allowed into the U.S. market due to the 'devastating' impact they would have on the American auto industry. He h

This Ars Technica article examines the complex relationship between amyloid plaques and Alzheimer's disease, including the long-debated 'amyloid cascade hypothesis' and its role in driving disease res

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly implementing branded AI chatbots, like PatientGPT, to serve

Amazon has secured a significant agreement with Apple to provide satellite connectivity for current and future iPhones and Apple Watches, establishing Amazon as a primary satellite service provider

Google has introduced 'Skills' in Chrome, a new feature that lets users save their most useful Gemini AI prompts as reusable one-click tools. Once saved, a Skill can be selected in Gemini in Chrome by

Google is expanding its spam policies to address 'back button hijacking,' making it an explicit violation of its 'malicious practices' policy. The practice occurs when a site interferes with browser n

IONNA, the EV charging network founded by eight major automakers including BMW, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Toyota, announced a strategic partnership with Circle K to signi

The Ars Technica article reflects on NASA's Artemis II mission and the crew selected to usher in a new chapter of human space exploration. Artemis II (April 1–11, 2026) was a crewed lunar flyby missio

Two independent, ultra-precise hydrogen spectroscopy experiments have provided compelling evidence to resolve the long-standing 'proton radius puzzle' — a disagreement since 2010 over conflicting meas

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Microsoft silently raised prices on practically all of its Surface PCs by between 100 and 500 , with the last two models previously under 1,000 — the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, wh

The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) conducted evaluations of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, finding it represents a meaningful step up over previous frontier AI models in cybersecurity capabilit

Ukraine's surge in ground robots (unmanned ground vehicles, or UGVs) is driven by the rise of aerial drones, which have turned vast swaths of the battlefield into lethal kill zones. These robots are u

The Pixel 10 marks the first Pixel device to integrate a memory-safe language into its modem, with Google embedding a DNS parser written in Rust into the modem firmware. DNS requires parsing of untrus