Valorant is winning the war against PC gaming cheaters
Riot Games’ investment into its Vanguard system is paying off.
The bill finally comes due for Elon Musk
The Tesla CEO has long promised — and failed to deliver — a fully autonomous vehicle. With this week’s robotaxi reveal, his time is up.
Why NASA is sticking with Boeing
The Starliner debacle fueled speculation that the space agency would dump Boeing. But if it did, it would be left with SpaceX — and Elon Musk.
How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy
The Goliath Power Saber.
Inside Ford’s private off-road track where it tests its wildest electric machines
These high-speed electric models follow in the footsteps of 120 years of Ford racing.
The invisible problem with sending people to Mars
Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out.
Why are so many car YouTubers quitting?
From Car Throttle to Donut, countless YouTube creators are fleeing. But is this a new trend or a tale as old as venture capital?
The 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
CrowdStrike’s faulty update has kicked off questions about how to avoid a similar tech disaster.
Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified
The new TUAW is ripping off its former writers.
Why Redbox has been powering down
The bankruptcy of Redbox’s parent company came after months of chaos, cash crunch, and corporate upheaval.
I renewed my US passport in a single week with the government’s speedy online beta
If you can get into the beta, it’s incredibly speedy right now.
Windows on Arm finally has legs
Microsoft and Qualcomm have convinced software developers to lean into their latest Arm push.
The surprisingly not-so-doomed effort to force US drivers to stop speeding
People love to speed, but with traffic fatalities rising, would they accept new technology that would make it harder to drive recklessly?
All of Microsoft’s MacBook Air-beating benchmarks
Microsoft is confident it can beat the MacBook Air M3 on performance, price, and battery life.
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
The little smart home platform that could
How Home Assistant plans to transition from an enthusiast platform to a mainstream consumer product.
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.
How a Windows shake-up could position Microsoft to capitalize on AI PCs
An inside look at Windows and Surface leadership changes that could have far-reaching effects.
Playtron: the startup hoping to Steam Deck-ify the world
What if Steam Deck, but not just Steam and not just Deck?
How Nintendo’s destruction of Yuzu is rocking the emulator world
Nintendo sued Yuzu into the ground. What happened next?
Former Kotaku writers are launching a new video game site — and they own it this time
They’ve started Aftermath, a new website about video games and culture.
The EV transition trips over its own cord
EV sales are skyrocketing, more than 100 models are on sale, and charging infrastructure is getting better. So why does everything seem so precarious all of a sudden?
Dough doesn’t pass the smell test
Eve, the monitor and tablet company that some accuse of walking away with their money, hasn’t fixed its reputation.