This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay

"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."

Google's AI shakeup: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart

Google's AI brain drain continues.

Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us that superhero movies can be good

It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extravaganzas.

Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team

Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.

After jacking up prices, Disney+ and Netflix consider offering free alternatives

Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.

EVgo starts building Tesla Superchargers under license

The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.

D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits

Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report

Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.

Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle

Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.

Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction markets"

Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.

Trump killed the Digital Equity Act, but US was forced to bring part of it back

$1.25 billion program restored, but judge ruled race provision unconstitutional.

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.

China is Tesla's cash cow, but for how much longer?

Tesla's Shanghai factory is busier than ever but might be cut loose.

The Pixel 11's "glow" feature is actually called HiLight—here's what it does

The camera flash will evolve into a multicolor LED that illuminates when your phone is face down.

Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it

Congress set ownership limit at 39%, but FCC claims authority to kill the rule.

Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting

Federal officials will update the outbreak sometime "this week," a spokesperson said.

2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware

Chevy's 721-hp hybrid ups the ante with few compromises, but at a steep cost.

OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"

“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.

US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

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Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Top scores increased by 5x.

2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn't completely extinct yet

At $25,305, you won't find many new cars for less. But you get what you pay for.

SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana

A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages.

Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters

Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws.

How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark

Automotive lights are better than they've ever been, but there's a trade-off.

Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission

"We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."

Review: Yes, we're still arguing about Nolan's The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan's impressionistic remix of Homer's epic poem finds the man behind the myth.

As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.