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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In Taiwan, a 23-year-old college student is in hot water after hacking the country’s high speed rail system with a hodge-podge setup consisting of a laptop and a couple of radios. According to the Taipei Times, the incident disrupted four separate trains, causing nearly an hours-long delay across various rail lines. Identified only by his surname Lin, the student is alleged to have sent an alarm signal to the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSRC) control center, which triggered a travel-stop and subsequent investigation.…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. GameSir G8+ MFi: One-minute reviewThe GameSir G8+ MFi is the controller that the G8 Galileo probably should have been from the start. It takes the same full-size grips, Hall effect thumbsticks and triggers, and programmable back buttons that made the original one of the best mobile grips going, then layers on MFi certification for iPhone and iPad Mini, swappable ABXY button caps, dual vibration motors, and crucially, improved case…

It doesn’t matter if you spend $30 and buy a cheaper, Walmart-branded streaming box or Google’s own streaming devices. Google TV can be bloated, unresponsive, and somewhat nasty to try to muck through. And this is coming from one of their biggest fans, as I switched from Fire TV to Google TV and haven’t looked back once. But if you’re hoping to get the most out of your streaming box, I can’t blame you. There are a few great ways you can bypass the bloat and get what you paid for, without having to invest in a different streaming box…

HP IQ is probably not what most people expected the first proper post-Humane product from HP to look like. After HP acquired key parts of Humane, including its Cosmos platform, IP, and parts of its team, it would have been easy to assume the company was going to try and salvage some version of the AI Pin’s original vision. Instead, HP IQ is something much more grounded. What is HP IQ? This isn’t a new AI wearable, nor is it trying to replace your phone; this is HP’s attempt to build an on-device AI layer for work, and while that…

Google this week released a Chrome 148 update that resolves 79 vulnerabilities, including 14 critical-severity bugs across multiple components. The first critical issue is a heap buffer overflow in WebML tracked as CVE-2026-8509, for which the internet giant paid a $43,000 bug bounty. Google has not shared details on the flaw, but its severity rating and the paid amount suggest that it could be exploited for remote code execution. The second critical issue is CVE-2026-8510, an integer overflow weakness in Skia that earned the reporting researcher a $25,000 reward. The remaining 12 critical-severity security defects resolved with the latest Chrome…

The Unitree GD01 will mass produce the world’s first transforming commercial giant Mech. It was announced by Unitree Robotics on May 12, 2026. It is a civilian vehicle that a human pilot rides inside (open cockpit in the torso) and not yet a fully autonomous robot. It transforms between bipedal (upright 2-leg walking) and quadrupedal (4-leg crawling) modes for different terrain. It costs $650,000. Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000 👏The world’s first production-ready manned mecha. It can transform. It’s a civilian vehicle. It weighs ~500kg with you inside.Please everyone be sure to use the robot in…

Switching phones tends to feel like a bigger commitment than it needs to be, especially when the mid-range market asks you to give up something meaningful to stay within budget. What makes this moment different is that a phone launched in 2025, running Android 15 with six years of OS upgrades promised, has already dropped to a price that most people would associate with a handset half as capable. Samsung’s Galaxy A17 5G has fallen to its lowest cost yet, turning this deal into a smart time to switch phone With six OS upgrades guaranteed and a sale price of…

The 151st Preakness Stakes will take place at Laurel Park in 2026 – the first time in over 100 years it won’t be held at Pimlico Race Course. While Pimlico, currently undergoing major redevelopment, typically hosts more than 120,000 people, Laurel Park’s capacity is a mere 5,000, so it’s no surprise tickets are already sold out.Often known as the “Middle Jewel,” this is the second leg of the American Triple Crown for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, held after the Kentucky Derby and before the Belmont Stakes. After winning the Kentucky Derby, Golden Tempo will not run in the Preakness Stakes, meaning there…

The infamous TeamPCP hacking group that besieged the open source software ecosystem several times over the past half year has released the source code of its Shai-Hulud worm, opening the door to copycat attacks. The code was shared via GitHub repositories under several users and was accompanied by detailed instructions on how to use it. While GitHub removed the repos, multiple forks also appeared, Datadog says. The repositories also contained the “Shai–Hulud: Open Sourcing The Carnage” message from the hacking group itself, which states the intended purpose of the release, namely to fuel more supply chain attacks. In fact, security…

The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with new scientific experiments after lifting off at 6:05 p.m. EDT Friday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The SpaceX spacecraft, loaded with nearly 6,500 pounds of cargo for the space station’s Expedition 74 crew, is scheduled to autonomously dock at about 7 a.m. Sunday, May 17, to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module. Watch NASA’s live rendezvous and docking coverage beginning at 5:30 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime,…