The US Air Force could spend $49 million on WindBorne's weather balloon data, although orders currently stand at $1.7 million.

Your Nintendo Switch 2 is made to project its display to a TV. If it's not working, there are some things you should check.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants a humanoid that can operate in a world designed for people, though the CEO says a robot 'brain' is a much bigger challenge.

Samsung's latest software update commitment for its tablets is great, but older devices can't take advantage of it.

Everyone getting online at the same time can slam the network, but working around these slowdowns is possible with a few tricks.

OSLO, Oct 18 Chinese-made cars filmed sensitive information during a Norwegian military exercise, including acce...

For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of a universal basic income program who received $1,330 a month for an entire year. There were benefits, but also the everyday challenges of being poor, and turning their life around "did not turn out to be quite that simple." Across Silicon Valley, experimental guaranteed income programs have quietly taken off. Google began funding six different initiatives in 2022 as part of a $50 million donation to nonprofits in the San Francisco ..

Smart home products most often harness Wi-Fi to function. But what can you do if you lose internet frequently?

What your PC is doing in the background doesn't need to be a mystery. Learn about what's happening and how to spot when something looks wrong.

Norwegian soldiers discovered rental cars had stored military footage and access codes, raising security concerns despite no evidence of deliberate espionage.

Older PlayStations may be past their prime, but there are several ways you can make use of these consoles.

"When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works," argues an EFF blog post, "users rely on courts to recognize that laws can't make technical impossibilities a reality." "That's why we were happy to see that a court has blocked Utah's attempt to outlaw the privacy protections of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)." In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah's SB 73, the state's draconian anti-VPN age verification law... Signed into ..

Zotac fits an RTX 5080 desktop graphics card with 16GB of GDDR7 memory and a 20-core Intel processor into an 11.46-liter chassis, with Japanese prices starting at $2,647.

Here are some of the other, older vehicles that use fans for downforce like the Tesla Roadster does.

MapQuest creates a new layer (that can be toggled on and off), Gizmodo reports: After promising not to comply with the Trump administration's "Lake America" gimmick, the platform announced a new "Surveillance Layer" that displays the locations of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), including those from Flock Safety. Per MapQuest, its new tool will identify the locations of known outdoor surveillance cameras and plate readers from Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, ..

Grab an RTX 5090 for $5,300 as part of an MSI Infinite ZS prebuilt $7,599 price includes other components worth about $2,300 on their own

Sarah Helm, who is married to Jonathan Powell, was responding to a discussion about the author Sally Rooney.

'Dark Tower' plans can maybe sigh in relief as Flanagan sketches out his approach to the upcoming show.

Yesterday, a Korean news outlet shared some concerning news about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra. According to the report, Samsung is thinking about going all Exynos next year, as internal testing has shown that the newly released Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset is running too hot, resulting in thermal throttling. In contrast, the Exynos 2700 is doing just fine. But after the rumor did its rounds on the internet, Qualcomm's CMO responded to a thread on X saying that these rumors ..

"Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said Friday it plans to make extensive upgrades to its Florida launch facilities," reports CNBC, "with the goal of supporting multiple flights per week by the end of the decade." "The company will add two more launch and landing pads for New Glenn, its heavy-lift, partially reusable rocket." A $330 million expansion to its Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, expected to be complete in the summer of 2027, will enable it to produce up to 150 upper stages of its New ..

At least there's still Assassin's Creed Jade to look forward to.

TikTok cites its policy on political content.

Linux maintainers "have ruled that people no longer have to declare their LLM usage," reports XDA Developers, "as Torvalds himself calls a ban on AI 'utterly stupid.'" The first part of this story comes via a message sent to the Linux mailing list. It announces one of the major changes decided during the Maintainers Summit on October 8, 2026, in Prague, Czechia, where submissions to the kernel no longer need to use the "Assisted-by" tag... meaning that people can submit AI-generated code ..

Once he's done with the next 'Hunger Games' movie, Francis Lawrence will try his hand at adapting 'Red Rising.'

It might sound weird to use Android Auto outside of a vehicle, but doing so has unexpected productivity benefits.

Android phone running out of space? Here's why and what you can do to get rid of old files.

TikTok has banned the account meant to promote the Elon Musk documentary.

Apple called the early demand "nothing short of extraordinary."

Don't underestimate this compact pickup.

"Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the company behind the [server-side] JavaScript and TypeScript runtime created by Ryan Dahl, the inventor of Node.js," Forbes reported last week. But Deno "has no future at Cloudflare, which will maintain the runtime for another year before ending its development," writes The Register. "That's OK with Dahl. 'I am now of the opinion that if you're choosing Node.js for building servers, you're doing it wrong,' Dahl told The Register." It all started with his team's ..

Still, it appears Meta will be gobbling up plenty of data.

Millions of current and former students at California's public school have had their data stolen including names, date of birth, and addresses stolen in a breach, reports the Los Angeles Times. The breach affects students "who took the state's mandated standardized tests that annually assess their academic proficiency, education officials announced Friday." The compromised information affects many more than the state's current 5.7 million public- school students as the breach dates back to 2023 ..

Don't panic if your Amazon Echo is flashing a yellow light. Here's what that color means, how to clear it and how to tweak your Alexa notification settings.

CD Projekt Red doesn't want adaptations to canonize the events of 'Cyberpunk 2077,' just keep building out the world.

The premium handheld is expected to start shipping in December.

Al Jazeera journalists were infected, but the number of victims could be a lot bigger.

Samsung's Auto Blocker protects your Galaxy phone from security threats, but it does have drawbacks. Here's what it does and when you might want to turn it off.

TechCrunch writes: "Isn't it weird that I, like, did a TV show about kind of a business scam, and you got in trouble for like ... a business scam?" comedian and filmmaker Nathan Fielder gently asks Elizabeth Holmes. One month before the notorious Theranos CEO surrendered to begin her 11-year criminal fraud sentence in 2023, Holmes and her husband contacted A24 as a last-ditch effort to exonerate her in the public eye, suggesting they send a film crew to document her final days of freedom. ..

The sinking AI trade rattled last week's market. But solid bank earnings and a rotation beyond tech gave us reasons for optimism.

The HyperX Cloud Alpha Air is the brand's first open-back gaming headset. It's lightweight and comfortable, and it sounds very good. But microphone pickup is low, and it doesn't seem to work with the brand's peripheral software (yet).