Nvidia Just Tackled One Of PC Gaming’s Biggest Headaches: Shader Compilation
One of the most annoying things about PC games is how long they can take to start, thanks to the...
Day: October 21, 2026
Another Day, Another Pokemon Card Heist Worth Nearly $1 Million
I guess someone's gotta collect 'em all, and it appears that thieves are doing just that, as yet another high-stakes...
Rayman Legends Retold’s New Baguette Costumes Are A Tip Of The Beret To Expedition 33
Rayman Legends Retold is almost here, and as you'd expect from this remake, it's a pretty noticeable graphical glow-up of...
Xbox Cloud Gaming Hourly Prices Revealed For Non-Game Pass Members
Microsoft has revealed how much it will charge people for using the Xbox Cloud Gaming service without a Game Pass...
We can do impossible things
My brain, throughout my 20-plus-year career as a science and tech journalist, has played host to a near constant tug-of-war...
Star Wars Battlefront 3 Reportedly In Development By EA’s Top Shooter Studios
Included in the shocking news of EA's restructuring, which includes layoffs and the closure of BioWare, is a mention from...
Nuclear-powered spaceships | MIT Technology Review
Still, developing space propulsion using reactors has been slow going. The US has started—and terminated—several programs looking into it over...
EA Kills BioWare, Cancels New Mass Effect, Pauses New Sims Game, And All The Other Big EA News That Just Happened
When EA was acquired by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, many expected major changes at the gaming company, including layoffs...
Exercise in a pill | MIT Technology Review
There are regulatory hurdles too. The FDA approves medications to treat diseases, not to enhance wellness, says Thomas Burris, a...
WoW: Forever Is Continuing A Long-Running Questing Tradition
World of Warcraft: Forever will see players battling to become an ogre arena champion once more, this time in the...
Interspecies communication | MIT Technology Review
There are other hurdles. Many animals communicate not just through sound but through visual cues, touch, pheromones, or a combination...
GTA 6 Will Feature Lots Of Small Details Like Red Dead’s Dynamic Horse Testicle Physics
New details about Rockstar's GTA 6 continue to come to light ahead of the highly anticipated crime game's release in...
Cleaning up PFAS | MIT Technology Review
The PFAS monster is also a moving target. New compounds are still being created and used. There are more than...
Everything New In Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5
A new season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is now on Netflix, and to celebrate, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting an update. Developer CD...
Eliminating traffic deaths | MIT Technology Review
Cheap and proven traffic-calming opportunities abound—from using planters to tighten intersections to lowering speed limits—but government logjams and red tape...
Halo 3 Looks Like It Could Come To Browsers Via Xbox Labs
We just got our strongest hint at what Xbox Labs might be "cooking up" for players, thanks to Xbox chief...
The Download: introducing the Impossible issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
Xbox Game Pass Heading For A Massive Shakeup, Report Says
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is reportedly plotting a "major overhaul" of the Xbox Game Pass service, beyond some of the...
Solid-state batteries | MIT Technology Review
Then there’s the problem of manufacturing at scale. Mass production requires large quantities of defect-free sheets of ceramic-like material to...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?
Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics—or so one...
Here’s the tea
When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old...
