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Microsoft is building Copilot into every product it owns, while Google is integrating its Gemini LLM tool into all of its properties. To determine which tool is better, I came up with seven challenges.

It's a debate Linux users love to argue over, and there's no easy answer – but here's my take.

Keyboard shortcuts can supercharge your workflow – if you know what they are. Here are the ones I recommend to every Windows user.

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS directly from a USB drive, but is that the right approach? Here are the pros and cons.

The best Bluetooth trackers make it easy to know the location of your essentials at work, home, and school. These are our favorites, many of which are on sale for Black Friday.

The Nitecore NB Plus is thin, lightweight, water-resistant, and shrugs off the cold, heat, and knocks.

Privacy-first Phreeli says it won't collect, sell, or share customer data. Here's why.

Toyota, Honda, and Mazda are building a new open-source car platform that runs everything from entertainment to navigation – and could even power self-driving.

After a year of testing the top hardware and software, here's ZDNET's list of 2025 winners.

If you're eyeing a new office suite that is locally installed and fully featured, Collabora runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

By the time the Artemis II Orion spacecraft launches to the Moon next year, its many components will already have traveled thousands of miles and moved across multiple facilities before coming together at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Branelle Rodriguez, Artemis II […]

Now in its 26th year, the event brings teams of middle and high school students to the lab to compete with home-built contraptions. Teenagers wielding power tools and plywood demonstrated their engineering prowess at the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet […]

NASA’s broadcast of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has won an Emmy Award for Excellence in Production Technology. At the 76th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Dec. 4, in New York City, the Academy of Television Arts & […]

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor a research drone in this September 2025 photo. This flight occurred in Dumont Dunes, an area of the Mojave Desert, as part of a larger test campaign to develop navigation software that would guide […]

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC 1792. Located over 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba (the Dove), the bright glow of the galaxy’s center is offset by the […]

A rare tropical cyclone dropped torrential rains on the Indonesian island, fueling extensive and destructive floods.

NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar region. The instruments will improve our knowledge of the lunar environment to support NASA’s further […]

Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman’s construction. After […]

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, is preparing to depart the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and return to Earth. Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky will undock from the station’s Prichal module […]

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. The Resolve instrument aboard XRISM, pronounced “crism,” discovered […]