Enlarge / The cool racing stripe means it's faster. (credit: Sony) Sony today announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, a mid-generation hardware upgrade that will play the same game library as 2020's PlayStation 5, but with higher frame rates and better resolution than on the original system. The new units will be available on...

Enlarge / Where are the gentle creatures and native plants you first saw when you landed? More importantly, could this conveyer belt run on a shorter path? (credit: Coffee Stain Studios) The company that compels you to industrialize an untouched alien planet in Satisfactory, FICSIT, is similar to Portal's Aperture Science...

Enlarge / Quantinuum's H2 "racetrack" quantum processor. (credit: Quantinuum) On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series of announcements related to its Azure Quantum Cloud service. Among them was a demonstration of logical operations using the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet. "Since April, we've tripled the number...

Enlarge (credit: eugenekeebler via Getty Images) In an age when you can get just about anything online, it's probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba. If you, like me, haven't been paying attention to the diamond industry, it turns out that the availability...

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Apple has suffered a significant defeat after the EU’s top court ruled that the iPhone maker must pay 13 billion euros in back taxes, overturning an earlier decision in the Big Tech group’s favor. The ruling relates to a 2016 case when the EU’s competition chief Margrethe...

Enlarge / An Aurora truck departs the company’s depot in Palmer, Texas. (credit: Aurora) On a sunny morning in December, an 18-wheeler will pull into a truck depot in Palmer, Texas, just south of Dallas. The driver will step out of the cab and help transfer his trailer to a second rig outfitted with powerful sensors....