Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots

Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?

Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements

This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.

AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed

Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.

Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat

US won’t back down from fight to deport technology researchers.

A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater

The trick isn't using perovskites—the trick is making them last.

Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles

Isotropic analysis revealed the most likely source to be Brimham Rocks, not the nearby Plumpton Rocks.

Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review

Valve's new $1,049 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR "revolution."

"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up

Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.

New corners, new lights for 2028 Volvo XC40

The Swedish automaker gives its small SUV a sympathetic makeover.

F1 in Madrid: Like Monaco but twice as long and none of the glamour

Formula 1’s latest venue might be fun to drive, but the race was processional and dull.

Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says

The 40-year-old unvaccinated woman reportedly had underlying health conditions.

I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.

The manufacturer has a service that lets owners repair their own equipment.

I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.

Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services

"Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions."

Random rewards enrich classic game-theory contests

Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise.

Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland

The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent.

Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge

The Department of Energy declared an "emergency" when none existed.

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.

Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics

Analysis revealed seed proteins from sesame and moringa, which held religious and symbolic significance.

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.

NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy

NASA asks US states to show them the money.

Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?

Experiment put atoms in a superposition of trajectories to find out.

Could United Launch Alliance's money problems finally force its owners to sell?

ULA is preparing to resume launching the Vulcan rocket in the coming weeks.

Rocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?

"We felt like now is the time to pour gas on that fire."

Boy developed "toasted skin" condition from using a laptop every day

Laptops don't usually get hot enough to burn—but they can still be harmful.

LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions

Judge tosses lawsuits, says plaintiffs didn't allege any real privacy violation.

Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument

Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.

Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers

App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming.