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SpaceX wants more money, asks Trump admin to reject state's broadband grant plan.

The new Gemma model is a fraction of the size of most new models.

Meta drops AI rules letting chatbots generate innuendo and profess love to kids.

The Inca Empire hung by a thread-literally.

VA Tech experiment was inspired by Death Valley's mysterious "sailing stones" at Racetrack Playa.

Photophoresis can generate a tiny bit of lift without any moving parts.

Feature had been removed from US Apple Watches after Apple lost a patent fight.

Startup encountered persistent technical issues using Huawei Ascend chips.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are beefing. But their relationship is complicated.

The head of the FAA's commercial spaceflight division will become a political appointee.

Apple has purportedly been working on new smart home devices for years now.

Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs-and why we fall for it.

581 miles on a single charge is impressive, but haven't other drives gone farther?

Gemini will remember this, so it's time to check your privacy settings.

This launch was a big success, but it doesn't necessarily quash anxieties about ULA's ability to deliver.

Despite the reputation, it's better, more practical transit than you might think.

Dual mouse controls work surprisingly well-if you find somewhere to use them.

The risk is likely low for most, but rabies is nearly 100 percent fatal.

"The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve."

After unpopular GPT-5 launch, OpenAI begins restoring optional access to previous AI models.

Mercedes is debuting its next electric van at Monterey Car Week.

Sam Altman says we could soon have "high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces."

These parasites are usually found in the skin, but they can invade anything.

This will be the first national security mission to fly on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket.

The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.

Google may soon be ordered to sell Chrome, and Perplexity is ready.

Adult YouTubers defend childish viewing habits in fight to block AI age checks.

Netflix film's appeal fueled by killer K-pop soundtrack, with one banger after another.

The Radster is great as a Class 2 e-bike, but not quite as strong as a Class 3.

Musk threatens to sue Apple to get Grok to top spot in App Store rankings.

Move comes after negotiating an export agreement with the US.

Exploits allow for persistent backdooring when targets open booby-trapped archive.

OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.

Inspection reports of other Boar's Head plants do not bode well.

Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US.

The Internet Archive confirmed it's in ongoing discussions with Reddit after block.

Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018.

Judge tossed claim but said UK must not "significantly impede" Wikipedia operations.

Satellite companies find themselves between a rocket and a hard place.

Chain-of-thought AI "degrades significantly" when asked to generalize beyond training.

Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. has vilified COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC.

The deal won't resolve national security concerns.

Video used to be treated as a source of truth, but that's no longer an assumption we can make."

It's a clean-sheet approach to designing and building an electric vehicle.

Gulf of Maine will be site of safety and effectiveness testing.

"Everything I've done, everywhere I go, is for the One Piece."

A recent conference sees doubts raised about the age of the oldest signs of life.

Nuclear power could be the linchpin for long-term human activity.

An encryption algorithm can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.

It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract.