This year's list features quite a bit of horror mixed in with the usual blockbuster fare—plus smaller hidden gems.

A2RL admits that this is a hard problem, and that's refreshing.

A relatively light year still had its fair share of interactive standouts.

Boat collision left Charlotte stranded at the surface and in danger of predation.

Researchers found a fossilized seascape while studying the impact of a volcanic eruption.

Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing?

This is how to do a remaster.

ULA's Vulcan rocket is at least several months away from flying again, and Stoke names its engine.

o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks.

Most owners still won't be refunded for the emotional support toy.

UK judge issues 1-year suspended prison sentence as Wright hides in Asia.

Let's hope Netflix fixes its live buffering problems beforehand.

Aluminum AirTag case replaces coin cell with 2 AA Lithium batteries for extended lifespan.

The most direct push for Google's Gemini chat so far.

OEMs also called out for selling data they collect on drivers.

Staff worried they were no longer helping people and the ban would lead to deaths.

Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.

Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.

Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That's not great.

"Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind."