Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed
It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come acro…
January 31, 2026It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come acro…
Kou January 31, 2026Blue Origin has "paused" its New Shepard program for the next two years, a move that likely signals a permane…
Kou January 30, 2026There's another battle unfolding between the Federal Communications Commission and California over the state's …
Kou January 30, 2026Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker's neighbor mentioned to him that she'd preordered a couple of stuffed dinosa…
Kou January 30, 2026In April 2025, Comcast President Mike Cavanagh bemoaned that the company's cable broadband division was "not w…
Kou January 29, 2026Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county cou…
Kou January 29, 2026SpaceX has made a new set of demands on state governments that would ensure Starlink receives federal grant money even …
Kou January 28, 2026Alarming critics, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Madhu Gottumukkal…
Kou January 28, 2026On January 12, EA shut down the official servers for Anthem , making Bioware's multiplayer sci-fi adventure complet…
Kou January 28, 2026There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to the…
Kou January 27, 2026One of NASA's three large WB-57 aircraft made an emergency landing at Ellington Field on Tuesday morning in southea…
Kou January 27, 2026LG has launched a subscription program in the UK that allows people to make monthly payments in order to rent LG TVs, …
Kou January 27, 2026The US Department of Transportation apparently thinks it's a good idea to use artificial intelligence to draft rule…
Kou January 26, 2026Universal Pictures and Illumination dropped a new trailer for the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and gaming fan…
Kou January 26, 2026TikTok has been glitching for US users since Sunday, and TikTok's new US owners have finally confirmed the cause: …
Kou January 26, 2026Over the years, hackers and modders at large have made it their mission to port classic FPS Doom to practically anyt…
Kou January 26, 2026The EU has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI following a public outcry over how its Grok chatbot spr…
Kou January 26, 2026Crew members traveling to the lunar surface on NASA's Artemis missions should be gearing up for a grind. They will …
Kou January 26, 2026A decade is a long time for a TV series; no single iteration of Star Trek has made it that far. But “a Star Trek pod…
Kou January 25, 2026Researchers on Friday said that Poland’s electric grid was targeted by wiper malware, likely unleashed by Russia state …
Kou January 24, 2026Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice…
Kou January 24, 2026Intel reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2025 yesterday , and the news both for the quarter and for the ye…
Kou January 23, 2026The Trump White House yesterday posted a manipulated photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota civil rights attorney …
Kou January 23, 2026Telly , a company that accepts advertising data instead of cash for its TVs, has reportedly had a hard time getting its…
Kou January 23, 2026It's no secret that students worldwide use AI chatbots to do their homework and avoid learning things. On the flip …
Kou January 22, 2026Ars readers of a certain age no doubt remember the 1980s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series (and its spi…
Kou January 22, 2026Blue Origin confirmed Thursday that the next launch of its New Glenn rocket will carry a large communications satellite…
Kou January 22, 2026Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that "bloom" like flower…
Kou January 21, 2026The announcement came out of the blue, from Blue, on Wednesday. The space company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, …
Kou January 21, 2026Recent advances in brain-computer interfaces have made it possible to more accurately extract speech from neural signal…
Kou January 20, 2026Netflix agreed to pay all cash for Warner Bros. Discovery, amending its $72 billion deal in an attempt to fight off Par…
Kou January 20, 2026TCL is taking majority ownership of Sony’s Bravia series of TVs, the two companies announced today. The two firms said…
Kou January 20, 2026It's been nearly three years now since Destiny maker (and Sony subsidiary ) Bungie formally announced a revival o…
Kou January 19, 2026Mac power users waiting on new high-end MacBook Pro models may have been disappointed last fall, when Apple released an…
Kou January 19, 2026An unconfirmed report early this month suggested Asus was pulling back on its smartphone plans, but the company decline…
Kou January 19, 2026Currently, Microsoft's long-running Cloud Gaming service is limited to players that have a Microsoft's Game Pa…
Kou January 19, 2026I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago , for example, I wrote t…
Kou January 19, 2026Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called " Cow Tools ," featuring a cow standing next to …
Kou January 19, 2026If you've ever used a 3D printer, you may recall the wondrous feeling when you first printed something you could ha…
Kou January 19, 2026The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions is nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study …
Kou January 18, 2026Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1…
Kou January 16, 2026Big Tech's AI-fueled memory shortage is set to be the PC industry's defining story for 2026 and beyond. Standa…
Kou January 16, 2026Verizon has received all approvals it needs for a $9.6 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications, an Internet serv…
Kou January 16, 2026Last week, news about the adoption rates for Apple's iOS 26 update started making the rounds. The new update, these…
Kou January 15, 2026Pairing Bluetooth devices can be a pain, but Google Fast Pair makes it almost seamless. Unfortunately, it may also leav…
Kou January 15, 2026After weeks of sexualized images of women and children being generated with Grok with very limited interventions from E…
Kou January 14, 2026The prices that Americans paid for subscription- and rental-based access to video streaming services and video games in…
Kou January 14, 2026Civilization VII is coming to the iPhone and iPad, Apple and publisher 2K announced today. Formally titled Sid Meier&…
Kou January 14, 2026President Trump asked Elon Musk to get Starlink working more reliably in Iran to thwart the Iranian government's In…
Kou January 13, 2026Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, died today of prostate cancer at 68. Adams satirized the world o…
Kou January 13, 2026Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around fara…
Kou January 12, 2026Two historic NASA test facilities used in the development of the Saturn V and space shuttle launch vehicles have been d…
Kou January 12, 2026CES 2026 took place in Las Vegas last week, and as usual, we're looking at the most interesting monitors from the s…
Kou January 12, 2026In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda in South America. A National Geograp…
Kou January 11, 2026Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world has crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans …
Kou January 11, 2026A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October continues to rage, with the state health department reporti…
Kou January 09, 2026Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a big business. While some SEO practices are useful, much of the day-to-day SEO …
Kou January 09, 2026Collecting fallen (or "shed") elk antlers is a popular pastime in elk-heavy places like Montana, but it's…
Kou January 09, 2026Supply shortages and big price increases for RAM and storage have been a major drag for enthusiasts and PC builders in…
Kou January 08, 2026Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins unveiled the delayed 2025–2…
Kou January 08, 2026For weeks, xAI has faced backlash over undressing and sexualizing images of women and children generated by Grok. One …
Kou January 08, 2026Since 2020, Samsung has been dangling a yellow ball in front of us. That sphere is a robot named Ballie that Samsung ha…
Kou January 07, 2026