13 May The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.
13 May xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
13 May Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says Musk’s lawyers questioned Altman over allegations of deception and his network of financial investments, but the OpenAI CEO painted a picture of Musk as obsessed with controlling the company.
12 May Testing for ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more doctors use it?
12 May Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’ The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
12 May The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish.
11 May Do City Delivery Drones Make Sense? No One Knows, but They’re Flying Over NYC One of the country’s busiest airspaces has a new kind of flying machine—maybe temporarily.
11 May Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren’t as helpful during smaller outbreaks.
11 May How Handheld Translators Work and Why They’re Handy for Travel Your cell phone can handle basic language translation, but bespoke tools can offer a much more immersive experience.
10 May The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026 The cars that debuted at the Beijing Auto Show demonstrate that the Chinese market is now at the forefront of electrification and intelligence. These are the 19 most intriguing models we saw.
