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Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026

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Motorola reveals the Razr Fold, a book-style foldable launching this summer

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HP’s EliteBoard G1a is a Ryzen-powered Windows 11 PC in a membrane keyboard

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With GeForce Super GPUs missing in action, Nvidia focuses on software upgrades

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Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC

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Dell’s XPS revival is a welcome reprieve from the “AI PC” fad

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News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

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Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs

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Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level

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Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze

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Magneto, Xavier reunite in new Avengers: Doomsday teaser

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Spot the difference: Sony’s electric car gets a crossover version

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Private equity deal shows just how far America’s legacy rocket industry has fallen

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Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, made using its long-awaited 18A process

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AMD reheats last year’s Ryzen AI and X3D CPUs for 2026’s laptops and desktops

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NASA’s science budget won’t be a train wreck after all

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Under anti-vaccine RFK Jr., CDC slashes childhood vaccine schedule

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The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

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Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

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Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87

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Amazon Alexa+ released to the general public via an early access website

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SanDisk says goodbye to WD Blue and Black SSDs, hello to new “Optimus” drives

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BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable

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Google TV’s big Gemini update adds image and video generation, voice control for settings

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X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

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Earliest African cremation was 9,500 years ago

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Providers dropping common anesthesia drug that’s also a climate super pollutant

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Ars readers gave over $42,000 in our 2025 Charity Drive

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Hands off! An on-the-road demo of Mercedes’ advanced new driver assist

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Our annual power ranking of US rocket companies has changes near the top and bottom

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No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images

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Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case

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OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

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Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert”

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SpaceX begins “significant reconfiguration” of Starlink satellite constellation

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Final reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes

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xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

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Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline

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After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking

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Marvel rings in new year with Wonder Man trailer

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Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

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“Streaming stops feeling infinite”: What subscribers can expect in 2026

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Film Technica: Our top picks for the best films of 2025

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Here we go again: Retiring coal plant forced to stay open by Trump Admin

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Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

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From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

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The science of how (and when) we decide to self-censor

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Lawsuit over Trump rejecting medical research grants is settled

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DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say

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NJ’s answer to flooding: it has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties

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