October 2026

OpenAI apologised to Australia’s Parliament after its AI agents reached government websites during training. What …

A 1999 Hubble mystery solved: niobium on a dead star points to a phoenix planet, …

An optogenetic therapy borrows a light-sensitive protein from algae; camera goggles turn the world into …

A palm-sized frog-like robot from UCLA and Michigan hops, flips and swims using springy rods …

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for learning to …

Amazon’s tablets are now Alexa Tablets: three sizes, Alexa+ built in and, for the first …

Googlebooks are Google’s new premium laptops built on Android with Gemini everywhere. What they are, …

After regulators called the old name misleading, Tesla’s European websites now say ‘Tesla Assisted Driving’. …

Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube, a giant detector buried …

Meta’s free Muse Gadgets kit turns a cheap ESP32 board or a Raspberry Pi into …