TECH NEWS

The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next

4:08 PM PDT · September 30, 2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday to launch a new effort to study how war may be fought as tech advances rapidly. It’s being called Project Meridian.

Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will co-lead the project. They’ll be joined by others from fields such as academia and policy, all working under the direction of Defense Department CTO Emil Michael. Their job is to “study the battlefields of the future” and the “weapons and technologies warfighters” may use on them, said Hegseth in a letter announcing the project.

The team (it is unclear how many people will be on it) will have 120 days to submit its findings and propose “actionable solutions to start developing, testing, and fielding” advanced technology meant to keep America a dominant military power,...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to techcrunch.com. To see the full text click HERE

https://hackster.imgix.net/uploads/attachments/2006674/_FiDz66UFf8.blob?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=600&h=450&fit=min

MIT Powers Aquatic Bot with Living Muscle

Swimming robots typically need motors or other mechanical actuators to push themselves through the water. But a new robot developed by researchers at MIT gets around with a layer of living muscle cells thinner than a human hair. The paper-thin biohybrid robot uses two independently controlled muscle-powered fins to swim,

https://hackster.imgix.net/uploads/attachments/2006678/_2wkYffeDnJ.blob?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=600&h=450&fit=min

Modernizing a Game Boy Color To Make it More Modern

The Nintendo Game Boy Color was a perfect console in every way — except all the ways in which it wasn’t. As amazing as it felt at the time, 30 years of collective experience has revealed some pretty serious flaws. In all fairness to Nintendo, those were mostly compromises made

https://www.cnet.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/ea775494-3a61-4110-b30c-68fa5ce0351a.jpg

Best Toys for Kids in 2026

Every year, the editors at CNET pretend we’re kids again, playtesting our way through all kinds of gadgets, games, STEM kits, puzzles and more to cut through the endless options and find the very best toys. After hours of real play, and plenty of help from our experts at

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/gemini-app-GettyImages-2276204472-1.jpg?w=1024

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

4:43 PM PDT · September 30, 2026 Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks such as coding, research, and writing. But it’s cybersecurity that Gemini 4 Argon is supposed to have a particular knack for, according

Read more

MIT Powers Aquatic Bot with Living Muscle

Modernizing a Game Boy Color To Make it More Modern

Best Toys for Kids in 2026

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet