The Smart Brick, shown publicly for the first time at CES 2026, is built around a custom ASIC smaller than a single Lego stud. It includes ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

Waymo, the largest purveyor of self-driven transport, says on its website that its robotaxis are “ the embodiment of fully ...

AMD announced the Ryzen AI Halo at CES 2026, a reference design for a mini PC based on its Ryzen AI Max+ chip.

If you can't work remotely from a beach chair, the SunBooster might be the next best thing for keeping your mood in check as you circle back. I used it to get a quick hit of energy at CES.

New research from Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk on Greenland shark vision – co-authored by University of Basel, Switzerland researchers Walter Salzburger and Lily G. Fogg, who worked on the evolutionary ...

A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.

From high-stakes political contests to big-ticket real estate developments, here's what to watch in Chicago business in 2026.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit Forest Neurotech, according to a source with direct knowledge of the ...

Tiiny AI argues that today’s real AI bottleneck is not computing power but our reliance on the cloud. GTM director Samar Bhoj says, “intelligence shouldn’t belong to data centers, but to people.” By ...

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...