The Good Robot podcast: what makes a drone "good"? Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. What makes a drone "good"? In this episode, we talk to Beryl Pong, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the Centre for Drones and Culture. Beryl reflects on what it means to think about drones as "good" or "ethical" technologies and how it can be assessed through its socio-political context.

Game Theory: Is legal doping in sport a good idea? As the Winter Games celebrate the Olympic motto, Faster, Higher, Stronger -- Together, a new competition is openly allowing the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Samantha Johnson looks at the Enhanced Games and how doping, once sport's red line, is now being marketed as innovation. AFCON: To walk or not to walk?

Chess, one of the oldest and most universally played board games, presents an ideal testbed due to the wealth of both policy data and language data. In terms of policy data, it is reported that over ten million games are played daily on Chess.com, the most frequented online chess platform.

Technology AI Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. Maker Joshua Stanley Robotics used magnets and an open source chess platform to build this unique board. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It's been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue, marking the first time a reigning world champion was defeated by a computer in a match. Chess engines have since improved so dramatically that even a simple smartphone app can now make top grandmasters sweat .

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Game director Johnny Galvatron explains his passion for a good hang. For most adventure games, the long-term goal can often focus on solving a grand mystery or chasing a lost artifact of the past. But for the upcoming from publisher Annapurna Interactive, it sets its sights on the misadventures of young friends enjoying their last days together before moving on. It's the type of narrative adventure game that shines a light on how good music can bring people together, and how much fun getting into trouble can be. From developer Beethoven and Dinosaur, the Australian creative team behind, is, in many ways, a tribute to classic '90s Americana and an ode to the rebellious youth of the average suburb. I recently got to play the latest build of and spoke with game director Johnny Galvatron about the making of their latest game.

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Plus, a tactical shooter from the team behind Half-Life remake Black Mesa. Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A whole bunch of compelling games arrived this week, and Sony dropped some news about more that are on the way to PS5 and other platforms during its State of Play stream on Thursday . For one thing, I didn't have a prequel for, one of my favorite games of the last few years on my bingo card. It's really neat that Motion Twin and Evil Empire -- the studios behind and its expansions, respectively -- are getting to make a proper Castlevania game .

The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium. The K9-X "robodogs" will help officers patrol during the 2026 World Cup this summer. Authorities in Mexico's Guadalupe, Nuevo León, this week unveiled four robot dogs that will be part of the security devices at BBVA Stadium, one of the three Mexican venues of the 2026 World Cup . The robot dogs are not armed, but each unit incorporates video cameras, night vision, and communication systems that are used to issue warnings or instructions. Its function is to deter illegal activity, detect unusual behavior, identify suspicious objects, control crowds, and immediately alert law enforcement when the system deems necessary. Robot dogs operate semi-autonomously: They do not make decisions or execute movements on their own.

India vs Pakistan will go ahead at the T20 World Cup, co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka. After a week of uncertainty, quiet talks won out. This wasn't just a fixture under threat, it was a test of power, money and governance in global cricket. AFCON: To walk or not to walk?

Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. As always, we've got a bunch of neat games to tell you about. Perhaps I'll tear myself away from playing as Chappell Roan in or Jetpack Cat in long enough to check more of them out. Thanks to the folks at, I learned about a short, text-based game from Woe Industries from a while back called . Surprisingly enough, you take on the role of a venture capitalist who has plowed gobs of money into genAI technology and might be starting to have doubts about that investment.