Science in 2026: what to expect this year
Nature, Published online: 01 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04114-0 More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run thr...
Nature, Published online: 01 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04114-0 More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run thr...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Aave's governance vote on brand ownership was fast-tracked, sparking backlash. ✓ Critics argue the decision exposed w...
Garry Tan is a top seed investor. Courtesy Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding. Founders launched companies ranging from...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Yoshua Bengio lies to AI chatbots by presenting his ideas as a colleague's to get honest feedback. ✓ Bengio is one of...
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has updated the user interface of its flagship chatbot by adding an advanced “thinking” feature, as its app recorded a massive 90 per cent jump in mon...
I’ve been working on a solution to the "Physical Oracle Problem" (trustless trading of physical goods) and just released the full Alpha implementation. The Core Thesis: Existing decentralized marketpl...
Hi HN, I’m a new developer with Aphantasia (no mental imagery). A side effect of this is that regaining focus after a distraction takes me a long time (the "23-minute lag"). I tried standard binaural ...
Samsung's spherical Ballie robot may be rolling off into the sunset, less than a year after its retail launch was announced . The smart home robot has made an appearance at CES almost every year since...
Found this on an open directory (blankline.org). It describes a 'Recursive Swarm' architecture designed to solve context saturation for 24+ hour engineering tasks. Two key claims stood out to me: D3 E...
My agency was bleeding $1,800/year on contractor Notion seats. The problem: I needed to give contractors access to specific data (CRM, project tracker) but couldn't let them see pricing, margins, or o...
Other than some earbuds , Klipsch hasn't made any headphones in a number of years. But the company is teasing a big return for 2026 at CES. Klipsch announced its Atlas series, a family of high-end hi-...
I was surprised that these… work pretty dang well. My biggest gripe about open-ear buds is that they're rotten for loud city commutes. Cue a pedantic audiophile pointing out that the whole premise of ...
There’s a whole computer in there. This kind of rules? HP is announcing a new mini desktop computer at CES 2026, and the whole thing is housed in a compact keyboard. The Eliteboard G1a looks like a no...
Hi HN, I built a small Linux CLI tool called witr (Why Is This Running?). The idea came from a situation most of us have hit: you log into a machine, see a process or port running, and immediately won...
The Gardyn Studio is that rare piece of tech that looks good inside my home. I can't grow anything. Multiple attempts to create a cottage garden, first in Idaho and now in South Carolina, have brought...
Lou Gerstner, the former CEO of IBM, has died at 83. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images Lou Gerstner, who led IBM's turnaround in the 1990s, has died, the company told staff. He kept IBM intact and ...
We saw a ton of cool new products at CES 2026, but not all of them made the cut when it came to deciding what was best of show . One of those products that we nevertheless think holds promise is Anker...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said over the summer that she didn't use AI. "Yeah, that's changed," she told Business Insider this month. Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images More and more lawmakers are be...
It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve been eyeing. The market ...
Recent Battlefield 6 Steam reviews have fallen to 'Mixed,' with players pointing to bugs, “aggressive monetization,” and generative AI content as player numbers dwindle amid the long wait for Season 2...