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The Hubble telescope has an almost legendary status. Over the last three decades, Hubble gave us some of the most spectacular close-ups of the universe ever captured, and now, NASA’s newest space telescope wants to see the bigger picture. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:26 a.m. EDT on August 30. Roman is now beginning a roughly three-month journey toward the Sun-Earth L2 point, nearly a million miles away, where it will spend its primary five-year mission surveying huge portions of the cosmos. Roman carries a…

Though Dlala Studios has other games, it was 2023’s Disney Illusion Island that put this team on my personal map. You can read why in Game Informer’s Disney Illusion Island review here, but ultimately, it’s Dlala’s love for its own projects and the accompanying passion that kept me waiting patiently/impatiently for whatever its next game would be. I finally learned what it was last week during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event when Dlala revealed Murals, a fairytale action game launching next year. Though I didn’t get to go hands-on with Murals during a behind-closed-doors preview at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany,…

If you’re in the US and open Google Maps to go looking for Lake Ontario, something is going to look a little off. It’s now called Lake America. Google began rolling out the change after the US Geographic Names Information System formally changed the lake’s name following an executive order from President Donald Trump. Google says its longstanding policy is to reflect geographic names from official government sources. The result is a map that changes depending on where you happen to be looking at it. US Google Maps users see Lake America. Canadians still see Lake Ontario. Everyone outside those…

I’m a mark for cyberpunk games, so Neon Giant didn’t have to do much to sell me on No Law – you give me neon, corporate dystopia, and some inspired fashion choices, and I’m there. But I won’t deny that my initial impression of No Law when it was revealed during The Game Awards 2025 last December was something along the lines of a tepid “Oh cool, another cyberpunk game I’ll check out.” That impression stuck through every trailer Neon Giant and publisher Krafton released, including the latest shown during Gamescom Opening Night Light 2026 last week. However, I knew…

Microsoft has spent the past few months testing a much cleaner version of Windows Search, and it is finally starting to reach regular Windows 11 PCs. According to Windows Latest, the redesigned Search experience is included in the August 2026 optional update, KB5120998, for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. Microsoft confirms that the update moves PCs to builds 26100.9278 and 26200.9278, respectively, although some of its new features are being enabled gradually. We first covered these Search changes in July, when they were limited to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. You can finally keep Bing out of Windows Search…

Samsung’s software fix for the Galaxy S26 Ultra‘s red tint issue started rolling out last week, but it isn’t working for all affected owners and is reportedly causing new display quirks for some. Some Galaxy S26 Ultra owners are still seeing red Samsung originally announced the fix earlier this month, saying the red tint came from a calibration issue and not a hardware defect. At the time, the company urged users to visit a local service center for a display calibration or wait for an over-the-air update. That update landed last week, but it doesn’t seem to resolve the issue…

Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold may have already disappeared from store shelves, but the tri-folding phone race is showing no signs of slowing down. Huawei has opened reservations in China for the Mate XT 2, ahead of its full launch on September 7. We still don’t know how much this thing will cost, but Huawei has now revealed its colors, memory configurations, and a major redesign that could make the phone more practical than its predecessors. While making the phone tougher was a focus, the design is absolutely stunning. Huawei is offering the Mate XT 2 in Dark Black, Pure White,…

AI scribes are rapidly making their way into doctors’ offices, promising to cut down on tedious paperwork and free up time for patient care. However, growing evidence suggests these tools are introducing a new set of risks for patients and clinicians alike. AI scribes are mangling diagnoses and prescriptions A new report by The Guardian highlights how automated transcription tools are routinely botching medical records in the UK. Findings from Healthwatch England, an independent consumer advocacy group for patients in the UK public health system, reveal that patients are catching severe transcription errors that jeopardize their health if left uncorrected.…

For years, solar-powered vehicles have largely lived in the world of prototypes, university projects and ambitious demonstrations. Now, one has completed the kind of test that matters far more than a flashy concept reveal: it drove hundreds of miles through difficult terrain while carrying medical equipment and generating enough electricity to operate independently. Called Stella Juva, the vehicle was developed by Solar Team Eindhoven, a group of 23 students from Eindhoven University of Technology and two other educational institutions. According to a CNN report, the team describes it as the world’s first solar ambulance. Unlike a conventional ambulance, however, Stella…

The Internet Archive has a habit of preserving unique things, ones that nobody else thought about, and its newest collection is the best example yet. I’d say it’s one that every AI historian should bookmark. Curated under the title “Vintage Artificial Intelligence,” the collection contains decades of software that tried to convince people that they were talking to a thinking machine (though with wildly varying success). So what exactly is in this new collection? Created by Jason Scott, the new collection gathers emulated software from the 1970s through the 1990s. All of them are playable directly in a browser. While…