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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Wednesday awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
My favorite MacBook, gaming PC, and budget laptop are all on sale for Prime Day, some at the lowest prices I’ve seen in months.
Another huge price drop brings the Samsung 9100 Pro down even further, with the 1TB model now below $200, and the 4TB model dropping by nearly $400 since yesterday.
Everything is so expensive in 2026, but these October Prime Day Deals are all under $100 on gadgets we recommend.
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk." ChatGPT for Teens, introduced in August, has guardrails for teens and is designed to help students learn, but Common Sense Media…
Get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for $410.
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
Apple TV's F1 coverage will feature Dolby Atmos support, starting with the US Grand Prix in Texas later this month.
David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-coded bakeoff produced curious results
Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days are here, and we’ve tracked down the best discounts on all the gear our team recommends.
System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore
There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the digital age. The font on the Commodore 64 keyboard for …
SPONSORED FEATURE: Cloud-based telemetry is turning meeting rooms into managed endpoints, letting IT teams anticipate failures rather than scramble once users complain
Prime Day deals on Amazon devices aren’t as attractive as they were before the August price hike, but these discounts are still worth grabbing.
Amazon raised Kindle prices across the board, but Prime Day is still the best time to buy.
Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?
Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion
It's the final day of the Amazon Prime sale.
We’ve had a lot of flying hacks here over the years, and that includes just about any way to get airborne you can think of — but very few of …
Tesla Model 3 and Model Y can power your home with Powerwall 3 during outages.
'Complete security paradigm refresh' needed for the AI era
Beginning with the U.S. Grand Prix weekend on Friday, October 23, Apple TV will offer Formula 1 coverage in Dolby Atmos on supported devices. Here are the details.
After updating the bottom half of the homepage earlier this year , Google Wallet for Android is rolling out a stacked list redesign for accessing credit and debit cards.
We take a look at the release notes and what's new in Tesla update 2026.33.5.
Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen
A new report from Counterpoint Research shows that Apple overtook Samsung during the second quarter of 2026 to become the leading smartphone brand in Europe’s carrier channel, as operator sales held up better than the broader market. Here are the details.
The camera in a typical mobile phone is now at a standard at which it can be considered a serious device rather than a toy, such has been the effort …
A newly-disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian’s data center software has a remarkably wide reach, affecting eight core products across the company’s enterprise portfolio.
We tested the MSI Katana 15 HX earlier this year and found it to be a great bang-for-buck option.
The Sonos Arc Ultra is our top pick for the best soundbar, and it’s on sale during October Prime Day.
The first two episodes of “ Small Prophets ” are now available to stream on Apple TV, following a wave of glowing reviews for the British comedy series. Watch the trailer below.
If you need voice dictation on Linux, there are plenty of options available, some of which are just as good as those found on other operating systems.
Get $500 off this prebuilt gaming PC with a sweet Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, a powerful RTX 5070 graphics card, and 32GB of memory at just $1799.
Game controllers have experimented with losing the cords for longer than you'd think, but early attempts didn't have much success.
Following a viral rebrand and two years without selling a new vehicle, the British marque takes the covers off the most divisive electric car yet seen.
Spam calls don't have to grab your attention and waste your time. Use these built-in options to silence and block them without having to pay.
Company's Project Glasswing and Cyber Verification Program metamorphose into triple tier threat hunting club
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled parts of the mathematical community…
Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity
Order of the Sinking Star is due out on Thursday and has roughly 1,500 puzzles for players to try
Dual Ethernet ports don't automatically provide faster speed, but they increase your networking options.
"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.
Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.
The doorbell, security cameras, thermostats and more could be announced next week.
Of course you're going to get the one that works with your ereader, but which of these page-turning gadgets is actually better?
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft is getting ready to do something around Grand Theft Auto VI that "no other platform holder is doing" during an employee all-hands this morning. According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, Sharma's brief teaser was actually about Xbox managing to land a deal…
Concluding iFixit’s teardown sequence for Apple’s September launches, iFixit today published the teardown of the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. Here’s what they found.
Spending too much time constantly sweeping and mopping? If you have the money to delegate those chores to a robot cleaner, you could save a lot of personal time. Thankfully, it’s cheaper than usual to buy a robot vacuum / mop hybrid during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, and some of our favorite models are
If you use Android Auto, you can try out the beta mapping service today.
Sony's PC game controllers are on sale.
Apple is collaborating with LG on a new lineup of smart home devices, including a video doorbell, thermostat, indoor camera, and more, according to a report from Bloomberg. The products will reportedly feature LG branding but integrate with the company's rumored smart home hub that's expected to launch during an event…
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s plans for smart home products include devices, sensors, and cameras codeveloped in partnership with LG. Here are the details.
Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.
Apple will announce the results of its fiscal third quarter of 2026 on Monday, November 2. Here’s what to expect.
Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is facing backlash from fellow comics who claim his takeover of SiriusXM's Raw Comedy channel is harming up-and-coming talent, as reported earlier by Deadline. Many established comics, including Patton Oswalt and Margaret Cho, have posted videos online calling on Maniscalco to carry on…
Sea surface temperatures have spiked to record levels in the tropical Pacific this fall, a sign that El Niño continues to strengthen.
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
With wild wellness trends and medical misinformation flooding social media, nurses are being trained to take on bogus information.
Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.
McDonald’s is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust laws because it shares nonpublic data with competing franchisees
Some Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners can use their EV battery to keep the lights on longer during a power outage, now that Tesla's expanding the Powershare Home Backup feature. It was previously only available on the Cybertruck, and also requires owning Tesla's Powerwall 3. However, support for the Powerwall 2 and…
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
We have a sizable collection of Google Play app and game deals alongside millions of discounts waiting in the fall Amazon Prime Day, including Is This Seat Taken?, ISLANDERS: Mobile, Druid, Kero Blaster, BE-A Walker, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced, Box Head: Roguelike Premium, Unreal Life, and more. Just be sure to…
A combined service could lead to higher prices.
Google announced a new agreement to update six nuclear power plant sites across the US as the tech giant seeks to generate more electricity for its power-hungry data centers. Google signed the 20-year deal with Constellation, the leading nuclear power plant operator in the US. The power purchase agreement is meant to…
Germany to back EU approval of Full Self-Driving if it's renamed Tesla Assisted Driving and limits speeding to 10%, ahead of a December vote
At $280, AOC's 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED monitor with a 144Hz refresh rate is one of the cheapest OLED displays we've seen.
Apple executive chair and former CEO Tim Cook sold nearly 200,000 Apple shares on October 2, one day after more than 374,000 restricted stock units vested as part of his compensation package. Here are the details.
Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.
Roborock is celebrating Fall Prime Day on October 6-7 with big deals on its lineup of 2026 flagship robot vacuums and more. Here are the details on the deep limited-time discounts from Roborock, and which product may be right for you.
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.
To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.
Tesla is now starting to ship a “Halloween Mode” that is filled with some creepy and fun features; the company says, “This spooky update turns your Tesla into a haunted house on wheels.” The update is just the latest in a series of updates that Tesla typically ships out in a seasonal fashion. The Spring
Can you imagine if open-source apps had an associated price? I wouldn’t blame my favorites if they did.
Tesla's Halloween Mode adds a ghost car avatar, graveyard parked scene, Trick or Treat Mode, spooky wraps, a light show, a scary Boombox voice, and more
The Hisense U8 won our Lab Award, and offers incredible picture and sound – and it’s almost $500 off.
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.