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Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA's decision on a Mars spacecraft
"NASA’s award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria.".
September 2026 Edition
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The day’s most important stories in technology, gaming, science, space, AI and culture — summarised and sourced.
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- Gaming
10 Near-Perfect Xbox 360 Games Nobody Played
Xbox 360 had a large library of hits, but some of its exclusive hidden gems didn't get the attention they deserved.
- Gaming
New Steam Game Is Like Balatro Meets Newgrounds-Era Flash Games
Kaz, a new Steam roguelike that's like Balatro combined with a Flash game from the Newgrounds era of the internet, is Steam's coolest new roguelike.
- Gaming
The 10 Best Marvel Video Games Of All Time
Spanning a variety of genres and eras, these 10 Marvel video games provide compelling gameplay loops that make them the best of their type.
- Networking
Cornelis lands $205M to make AI networks compute, not just connect
Networks built for AI and HPC workloads have mostly focused on moving data faster between endpoints.
- Technology
AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”..
- Science
Antibody cocktails could steer viruses into evolutionary dead ends
When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way.
- Gaming
Nintendo Opens the Zelda: Ocarina of Time Pre-orders Fans Were Waiting For
The Switch 2 accessory was conspicuously missing from Nintendo's official Zelda gameplay reveal, but now it's back with a date, price, and more..
- Technology
OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out
Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.
- Technology
Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?
- Technology
Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
- Technology
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
- Technology
Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
US won’t back down from fight to deport technology researchers.
- Technology
A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater
The trick isn't using perovskites—the trick is making them last.
- Technology
Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles
Isotopic analysis revealed the most likely source to be Brimham Rocks, not the nearby Plumpton Rocks.
- Technology
Steam Frame Review - This Changes Everything
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- Technology
Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review
Valve's new $1,059 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR "revolution.".
- Gaming
Sega and Netflix partner for a "cute yet cool" Sonic TV Show, a Crazy Taxi film, and a "badass action" Stranger Than Heaven adaptation
Netflix is binge-producing video game adaptations faster than a certain Blue Blur can chow down a chilli dog.
- Networking
Arm expands AI chip push with Neoverse CSS N4 and AGI CPU
Arm is expanding its push into AI data center infrastructure, introducing its most configurable Neoverse Compute Subsystem to date while highlighting growing industry adoption of its Arm AGI CPU for agentic AI workloads.
- Gaming
Blizzard say Battle.net isn't looking to fight Steam and Epic for supermassive storefront supremacy, despite recently nabbing The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
We are not trying to fight those big bosses.
- Science
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’
The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere.
- Gaming
"Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content label
Disclosure: Nighthawks writer Richard Cobbett has contributed articles to RPS, with his most recent as of writing being a Fable-themed feature from 2018.
- Gaming
Roblox plan to grow their absurd gaming empire even further by letting devs release games as "standalone apps", potentially via Steam, Epic, and GOG
They are calling the new initiative "Roblox Everywhere", two words that can surely only ever be uttered in the form of a Machiavellian giggle or a scream of purest terror.
- Networking
AI inferencing is headed for the network edge
Processing IoT/OT data as close as possible to the source has been a longstanding goal for IT leaders.
- Networking
The waste heat paradox: How data centers can cool AI with the heat AI creates
AI infrastructure has a resource problem that gets worse the more you try to solve it.
- Gaming
World of Warcraft Forever Officially Brings Gamepad Controls Blizzard's MMO
World of Warcraft is usually played with a keyboard and mouse, but the new "Classic Plus" WoW release can be fully played with a gamepad.
- Gaming
Blizzard Has No Plans To Turn Battle.net Into A Steam Competitor
Even though The Witcher 3 Remastered and Cyberpunk 2077 are coming to Battle.net, Blizzard tells Polygon not to expect a flood of third-party games..
- Gaming
Diablo 5 Has A Surprising Connection To Dragon Age
Former BioWare dev Jennifer Hepler tells Polygon, "My experience with traditional RPGs has definitely been a strength" during Diablo 5's development..
- Gaming
Starcraft Learning More Details About the Game | Interview
We talk to Starcraft GM and Creative Director Dan Hay and Anna Lee Hertling the Associate Manager of Development Operations to learn more about the big reveal from Blizzcon 2026.
- Science
Solving the Mystery of How Faint Young Sun Produced Habitable Earth
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- Technology
Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says
The 40-year-old unvaccinated woman reportedly had underlying health conditions.
- Gaming
2026’s Best Puzzle Game Is an Even Trippier Take On Portal
He Who Watches is an excellent new game that keeps the spirit of Portal alive with mind-bending puzzles.
- Technology
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
- Science
AI helps microscopes find the most informative nanoscale features in a sample
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies .
- Gaming
The Greatest Video Game Franchises of the 20th Century, Ranked
Without some key video game franchises livening up the 20th century, it wouldn't have been nearly as memorable.
- Smart Homes
The best cheap TV backlight is from a brand you've never heard of
Neewer make camera lighting, so a Neewer TV backlight was not on my bingo card.
- Gaming
Upcoming vampire RPG Nighthawks has been removed from Steam search and delisted in certain countries as Valve classifies it Adults Only: 'It's very bad news for us'
The label "immediately makes the game persona non grata in several important countries like Germany".
- Gaming
The Blood of Dawnwalker PC Performance Review - Great Game Marred By Tech Issues
Digital Foundry is now fully independent!
- Gaming
Diablo 4's new season brings back Deckard Cain and all three Prime Evils as the game arrives on Switch 2
Diablo 4 's next season, Season of Hell's Legacy, will go live on 15th September to celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary and Nintendo Switch 2 debut.
- Science
Physicists can’t agree on how the Universe works
A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed surprisingly little agreement about some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
- Technology
Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world
Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.
- Science
A 1,000-fold longer charge lifetime helps organic catalyst produce solar hydrogen faster
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies .
- Science
NASA's next great observatory could spot oceans on distant worlds
We've found more than 5,500 exoplanets so far.
- Gaming
StarCraft is back, but it's not the RTS you remember - it's an open-world shooter coming spring 2030
Blizzard's next StarCraft game will be an original open-world shooter and it's coming spring 2030.
- Science
NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies
Scientists have engineered yeast to turn PET plastic and agricultural waste into ingredients for protein-rich, 3D-printed cookies called µBites.
- Science
Physicists discover a hidden “curveball” in quantum light
Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with an atom slightly away from the beam’s center.
- Technology
I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.
The manufacturer has a service that lets owners repair their own equipment.
- Science
AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts
AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found that users of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound reported unexpected symptoms including menstrual changes, chills, hot flashes, and fatigue.
- Gaming
The weird, wonderful world of Miles Buckle, Instagram's parallel universe of video games
Going through Miles Buckle's Instagram feed is like stumbling into a parallel universe where cinema's greats – Lynch, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick – are reimagined in the familiar but distinctly different visual language of video games.
- Gaming
The 10 Best Tomb Raider Levels of All Time
Francis' Folly's four-god gauntlet to Paititi's sprawling jungle hub, these are the 10 Tomb Raider levels worth remembering..
- Gaming
Diablo 4 Season 15 Belial, Mephisto, Diablo, Baal and Moophisto Gameplay | Blizzcon 2026
We got our hand on Season 15 of Diablo 4 early and take on the 3 prime evils as well as a new Moophisto boss!
- Gaming
Stranger Things Officially Returns Next Week With 10 New Episodes
Netflix is bringing back Stranger Things with a second 10-episode season of Stranger Things: Tales from 85 on Sept.
- Gaming
Diablo 4 On Switch 2: A Very Impressive Port That Supports Mouse Controls
Blizzard confirmed to Polygon that the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Diablo 4 that we played at BlizzCon will support mouse controls..
- Gaming
10 Near-Perfect Nintendo 3DS Games Nobody Played
The 3DS came and went, leaving behind 10 near-perfect games most players overlooked, but shouldn't have.
- Gaming
Diablo 5 gameplay details from BlizzCon: More classes than ever before, procedurally-generated dungeons, and Diablo 2-style loot
Blizzard has offered up a surprising amount of detail about the action RPG sequel, which won't be out until 2029.
- Gaming
Blue Lock Director Reveals Why Crunchyroll’s New Action Series Goes Old-School
The Vermilion Mask director Tetsuaki Watanabe looked to the ’90s and early 2000s to make its supernatural battles easy to follow.
- Gaming
Diablo 5 Shows Off Its Brand New Plague Knight Class
The Plague Knight and more new Diablo 5 classes are on the way in the 2029 sequel, Blizzard confirmed during a BlizzCon panel..
- Science
Hubble Reveals a Bizarre Decagon in Saturn's Atmosphere
6:30 Saturn has enormous megastorms with weird ammonia balls 10:00 Atmospheric reversal across hemispheres 11:20 Saturn's spin fluctuation mystery solved 13:20 Conclusions #saturn #decagon #solarsystem Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare?
- Science
Japan's Hayabusa2 achieves first-ever laser ranging experiment with an asteroid
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached another milestone this summer, a first for space agencies.
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