On a recent sunny day in Silicon Valley, I visited the industrial headquarters of 1X Technologies. Security was tight, so I had to put a sticker over my cellphone’s camera and talk my way out of ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match. China’s lead in humanoid robots was evident at last month’s ...

Above: New York City — built live from OpenStreetMap, with real building heights. This is generated from a pasted location, not a hand-made level. Built entirely ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

Recalls usually come dressed up in regulatory language that hides how mundane the underlying problem is. This one is refreshingly honest about it. More than 14,000 examples of the 2025 and 2026 Tesla ...

Panini's 2026 World Cup sticker collection includes a few new wrinkles to a half-century old tradition. BRUNO FAHY / BELGA / AFP via Getty Images Whilst the FIFA World Cup remains the most coveted ...

Maker builds lifelike Rocky robot from Project Hail Mary with AI-powered speech and gestures.Leviathan Engineering/YouTube A fan-favorite alien from Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel Project Hail Mary has come ...

Breaking news out of eastern Oklahoma! A hole in the sky has opened. Through it, an unidentified turtle-shaped craft has descended. Alerts say that this is first contact. So it goes in the sci-fi ...