Engine tricks and energy harvesting: how F1 teams can exploit new rules to win in 2026

A Formula 1 rules revolution is making cars lighter and smaller for 2026, with more electrical power. After the biggest ...

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

It’s been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM’s Deep Blue, marking the first time a reigning ...
Hackaday

Cynus Chess Robot: A Chess Board With A Robotic Arm

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

Man builds electrified chessboard that shocks players for bad moves

Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...
Hackaday

Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons The Hard Way

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...
GM Authority

2027 Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra Engines: What We Know And Expect

The wait for the next-generation light-duty trucks is nearly over, with General Motors slated to reveal the 2027 Chevy Silverado 1500 and 2027 GMC Sierra 1500 later this year. While the wraps are ...
Time

When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess ...