The Newest Way to Go Analog

When the iPod Nano was first released, in 2005, it cost $199 and was sold on the promise of limitlessness. This year, Celeste Stange bought her magenta 8-gigabyte model on…

The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company

This week the US Space Force brought two more companies into the pool of bidders eligible to compete for its launch contracts—Impulse Space and Relativity Space. For a rocket company,…

iRobot’s newest floor cleaner isn’t a robot

The Roomba Electro Plus is iRobot’s first manually-operated floor cleaner. | Image: iRobot iRobot just announced its first-ever non-robotic floor cleaner. The $399 Roomba Electro Plus is a 5-in-1 hard-floor…

Trump puts brakes on OpenAI’s newest AI model

OpenAI’s newest AI model is getting a gatekeeper before most people can try it: the U.S. government. The company says GPT-5.6 Sol, its newest flagship model, will start with a…