05 Jun 2026
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review: Shrinkflation isn’t just for groceries anymore
putting the “gre” in “not great” The superior RX 9070 also launched for $549 just over a year ago. AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE isn't an awful GPU, but it's always frustrating to get less for your money.
04 Jun 2026
The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet
It may appear that humanoid robots capable of handling any task have almost arrived—especially when tech companies showcase them performing acrobatic feats or handling household chores. But there is still a significant gap between these robot demonstrations and proving that the same robots can reliably and repeatedly manage such tasks in the real world.
02 Jun 2026
Another Falcon 9 lookalike joins China's growing roster of rockets
It takes a village There are sound engineering reasons to use the same approach SpaceX uses with the Falcon 9. The first Long March 12B rocket climbs into the sky Monday over the Jiuquan launch base in northwestern China.
01 Jun 2026
An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 years.
26 May 2026
3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild
A $2,500 pair of humanoid robot legs built from 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components is not going to win marathons just yet. But such relatively inexpensive hardware could enable researchers to more easily test and train AI-powered robotics software in a physical body during real-world experiments.
23 May 2026
SpaceX’s Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight
Fireball SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit. A spacecraft deployed from Starship captured this view of the vehicle in darkness over the South Atlantic Ocean. Credit: SpaceX
22 May 2026
Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn’t provide end-to-end encryption
The Texas Attorney General has sued Meta over allegations that the company’s WhatsApp messenger, used by more than 3 billion people, doesn’t provide the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) it has long claimed.
21 May 2026
As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
Corporate use of Anthropic’s Claude and the Google Gemini AI models has also soared in the past year, according to the market research firm Enterprise Technology Research.
18 May 2026
The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship—will it finally deliver?
All roads lead to Starship “This is such a wild ride. The highs are high. The lows are low.” Starship V3 completes a successful wet dress rehearsal on May 11. Credit: SpaceX
