“It’s a big fat middle finger for those that thought they had something.” Jeff Bezos, shown here in 2018, apparently characterizing the value of Blue Origin’s original stock option plan....
Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size
A warehouse of guitar gear in the palm of your hand. At this January’s massive NAMM music tech show in Los Angeles, six products won “best of show” awards. Several...
Testing Apple’s 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new “performance” cores
M5 Pro Max’s “performance” CPU cores definitely aren’t just rebranded E-cores. The 16-inch MacBook Pro with the Apple M5 Max chip inside. Credit: Andrew Cunningham The 16-inch MacBook Pro with...
US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial
State attorneys general were “kept in the dark and excluded materially from settlement discussions” while they prepared for trial, the filing said. On March 5, the states were “notified of...
An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters
Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study. This diorama at Xinxiang City Museum, Henan Province shows what a Shang Dynasty village might have looked...
Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds
Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs. Last Friday, Nintendo joined thousands of companies suing the Trump administration to secure full refunds, plus interest,...
Flexible feline spines shed light on “falling cat” problem
Why do falling cats always seem to land on their feet? Scientists have been arguing about the precise mechanism for a very long time—since at least 1700, in fact—conducting all...
Don’t worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine “this year”
Valve quickly reconfirmed that it plans to ship the Steam Machine and other recently announced hardware products “this year,” after an official blog post late last week set off some...
2026 Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 debuts a new style of racing
Just like the Apple movie? The key is understanding how to conserve energy across a lap. Oh, and be reliable. Formula 1’s 2026 season got started in Australia this weekend....
Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt
Faster charging, more modern infotainment, and a new LFP battery are highlights. It’s back! Credit: Jonathan Gitlin It’s back! Credit: Jonathan Gitlin WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.—When the Chevrolet Bolt debuted in...
Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5
It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff. The comments here can double as a place for GPT-5.4 reactions, in addition to my Twitter thread. I...
Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer
Ayelet Zurer returns as Fisk’s wife Vanessa Marianna, along with Wilson Bethel as Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter/Bullseye; Margarita Levieva as Matt’s ex-girlfriend Heather Glenn, now Fisk’s Mental Health Commissioner; Zbryna Guevara...
Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage. Alvarezsaurids were mostly small-bodied theropods that paleontologists originally misinterpreted as early flightless birds, only...
Hunting for elusive “ghost elephants”
the elephant never forgets Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist’s quest to find a new species. The first photo of a “ghost elephant” captured by a...
A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara
A unique head spike and fish-eating jaws help make sense of these dinosaurs. The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of...
From Iran to Ukraine, everyone’s trying to hack security cameras
Research shows apparent Iranian state hackers trying to hijack consumer-grade cameras. Cameras are placed in public areas in Tehran. Credit: Anadolu/Getty Images For decades, satellites, drones, and human spotters have...
Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead
Now, you might think NASA would ask industry for solutions to this problem. After all, United Launch Alliance was developing a more powerful upper stage for its Vulcan rocket, the...
Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
If the only thing you had to go off was Apple’s string of product announcements this week, you’d have little reason to believe that there is a historic AI-driven memory...
With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?
Drink up, astrodynamicists! “We will challenge every requirement, clear every obstacle, delete every blocker.” Artist’s illustration of Starship on the surface of the Moon. Credit: SpaceX Last week, NASA Administrator...
Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?
“We think that in this early deuterostome, the median eye contained both ciliary and rhabdomeric cells,” Kafetzis explains. As a result, both cellular lineages were incorporated into a single, ancient,...
