Facial recognition systems are operating in airports, stadiums, schools, retail stores, and public streets in dozens of countries. The technology has improved dramatically and deployment has raced ahead of regulation. Here's where your face is being scanned, what the data is used for, and what protections actually exist.
There are now over 5 million used electric vehicles on the market in the US alone. Battery health is the central concern for buyers — but the data on real-world degradation shows the anxiety is often worse than the reality. Here's what the numbers actually look like, and how to evaluate a used EV properly.
The Dev Container specification, backed by VS Code, GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains, and the open-source community, is quietly solving the most persistent problem in software development: the gap between one developer's environment and another's. Here's how it works and when it actually makes sense.
NASA's CLPS program was supposed to bring competition and cost efficiency to lunar surface access. Two years after the first crashes and partial failures, the program is producing real results. Here's what the commercial Moon lander industry actually looks like in 2026.
Wing, Zipline, and Amazon Prime Air are running tens of thousands of deliveries per month in approved areas. The technology works. The FAA, infrastructure requirements, and economics are the constraints that will determine how fast the category scales.
Xbox Cloud Gaming, GeForce Now, PlayStation Plus Premium, and Luna have all made cloud gaming a real service used by millions. But the fundamental physics of latency means cloud gaming will likely remain a secondary option for most players, not a replacement for local hardware.
A wave of startups is racing to build AI agents that don't just answer questions but complete multi-step tasks autonomously inside enterprise systems. The market is real, the competition is fierce, and the distinction between 'AI agent' and 'fancy chatbot' is harder to pin down than it looks.
Noland Arbaugh became the first human to receive a Neuralink implant in January 2024, controlling a computer cursor with his thoughts. He's one of several patients across competing companies demonstrating that invasive BCIs work at a basic level. The harder questions — scale, safety, longevity, and what these devices can actually do — are now the frontline.
Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have all signed nuclear power deals in the last 18 months. The AI compute buildout is consuming electricity faster than renewables can supply it, and the industry is increasingly betting that small modular reactors and restarts of dormant plants are the fastest path to reliable, carbon-free power at scale.
A new generation of edge-native databases puts SQL close to users, not just close to your application server. The performance case is compelling. The tradeoffs in consistency and tooling are real.
Apple went eSIM-only for US iPhones in 2022. Google followed with the Pixel 7. The technology works, and users who've switched rarely go back. What's slowing the rest of the world down is the carrier industry's business model.
QUIC — the transport protocol originally developed by Google and now standardized by the IETF — powers HTTP/3 and runs under roughly half of all web traffic. Here's why the web needed a new foundation and what changed when it got one.