10 iconic William Shatner ‘Star Trek’ moments to celebrate his 95th birthday

In honor of Shatner’s 95th birthday, here’s ten signature Kirk scenes from ‘Star Trek’ history.

The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever
The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever

The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn’t supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a simpler way to send phone calls across copper telephone lines. The engineer, Homer Dudley, built some pretty neat technology […]

The Round of 64: AI-ok 

With the first two days of play completed, I am in better shape in my pool than I usually am. I asked Chat GPT to create two brackets: one to predict the actual winner, and one to win my pool. So far, both are doing OK. I am tied for fifth out of sixty…

AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games
AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games

AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box. On the show floor, I spent 10 minutes playing a demo of a pixel-art fantasy world generated by Tencent’s AI tools. In […]

I asked the cast of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come which David Cronenberg movie you need to stream ASAP — but I totally disagree with their choice

Every David Cronenberg movie is a certified banger, but if you’re going to stream one after Ready or Not 2, don’t pick the one that the cast recommends.

I just watched Project Hail Mary, here’s why it’s one of the best movies of the year

Ryan Gosling reaches for the stars in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s sci-fi film, Project Hail Mary, which has become one of the best movies of 2026.
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We chat with legendary space shuttle commander Eileen Collins about her new documentary, ‘Spacewoman’ (interview)

A brand new feature-length documentary showcases the inspirational accomplishments of pioneering astronaut Eileen Collins.

The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics
The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the public in 2024. Though she didn’t fully understand the technology, she was curious about what it could do, and she saw that other artists were building online communities to share their new AI creations. The […]

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 202 — Artemis Imminent

On Episode 202 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Mike Wall, the spaceflight and tech editor at Space.com, to bring us up to date on all the latest Artemis news.

Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell
Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell

The funny shape of eggs is the curious lifeblood of Oeuf, the new physics platformer by prolific developer Increpare Games. In a gaming landscape saturated with complex systems dropped into simple games, that grapples with metaphor within straightforward narratives, and that is desperate to bring cinematic sensibilities into gaming, Oeuf only asks that you briefly […]