A 13,800-Year-Old Alaska Camp May Hold the Americas’ Earliest Home
A hearth, a vanished wooden post and a pit may be traces of an ancient shelter. Together, they offer a rare glimpse of how people began making a home in a new land.
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Nvidia’s AI Data Center in a Box Aims to Go Live in 14 Days
What if building an AI data center started to look less like constructing a building and more like installing a giant appliance? Nvidia says its new modular design could bring computing online in as little as two weeks—once the site is ready.
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Call of Duty’s Hardest Score to Improve Isn’t a Sales Number
Activision says Black Ops 7 missed the tone players wanted—and that Modern Warfare 4 can fail even if it sells. The challenge is making that promise mean something beyond the next launch.
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What Did a Moche Infant’s Burial Say About Power?
More than 30 ceramic vessels and a possible copper mask accompanied a child at a temple in coastal Peru. The grave raises a striking question: how could status be expressed before a person could speak—or act?
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A lone positron could put nature’s deepest symmetry to the test
Matter fills the observable universe, while antimatter is scarce. A new experiment is preparing to probe that imbalance by listening to the quantum “steps” of a single positron.
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Steam’s Achievement Sets Could Give Completionists Their Progress Back
A DLC update can turn a once-perfect achievement list into an unfinished one. Steam’s new Achievement Sets aim to preserve the satisfaction of completion—even as games keep growing.
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The Roman Coffin That May Have Held a Medieval Abbot
A stone coffin bearing a Roman name contained a man who died centuries later. New dating narrows the mystery—but two Westminster abbots still fit the evidence.
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The Game Loading Screen Microsoft Wants to Make Disappear
A game’s first pause may happen before you even play: your PC is translating graphics instructions. Microsoft’s shader-delivery system aims to move that work into the download.
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BioWare’s End Is a Warning About the Difference Between a Studio and a Series
A role-playing universe can outlive the people who built it. But with BioWare set to close and early work on the next Mass Effect ending, the name on the box may be the least important thing players stand to lose.
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