Fifteen years after its last iteration, Microsoft is relaunching the classic mouse that many gamers grew up with playing Age of Empires or Starcraft. A clever Rube Goldgerg video accompanies the announcement, The new Intellimouse maintains the ergonomic focus, quick responsiveness, and sparse simplicity of the original from 1996.

After more than three years and hundreds of millions of miles, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2 has arrived at its destination. Scientists plan to drop several landers onto the tiny asteroid, and even blast a hole in it. The probe will then retrieve samples of Ryugu and return them to Earth in 2020.

Although the possibility of such an event is very small, a new report outlines some of the steps that government agencies can take to prepare for the possibility of an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet. The possibilities range from crashing spacecraft into approaching objects to detonating bombs.

The newly launched MTV Studios is wasting no time developing original programming for both cable broadcasts and subscription video on demand, drawing on hundreds of shows in the Viacom vault over the last 30 years. A live-action Aeon Flux and a new Daria animated series are just two of the offerings in the works.

What if you could watch a robot work and, with a simple hand movement, stop it before it made a mistake? That’s the promise of new research from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Using EEG and EMG scanners, scientists connected a robot to a human with no training required.

Netflix has shown some sympathy for the devil, picking up the fan-favorite crime drama Lucifer at the last possible moment for a fourth season after a months-long social media campaign. The show was cancelled by Fox and several streaming providers, including Amazon, showed interest in the series.

Apple has landed one of the most influential figures in all media, signing a wide-ranging deal with Oprah Winfrey. Few details were announced, but it means Apple is upping the ante in original streaming programming with a big push meant to compete with established streaming content rivals like Amazon and Netflix.

In preparation for the commercial crewed modules that will arrive at the International Space Station soon, astronauts took a lengthy spacewalk to install some crucial equipment to the docking module. The extra-vehicular activity moved commander Drew Feustel to third on the list of all-time spacewalkers.

The Seattle band Death Cab for Cutie has a new album on the way in August, and the first single Gold Rush ponders some of the downsides of luring a tech giant like Amazon to the city and the neighborhoods you've grown to love.

As Stephen Hawking's ashes were buried in the famous Westminster Abbey between the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, a composition featuring a message of hope from the renowned scientist was being broadcast to a black hole thousands of light years away.

Rockstar has outlined pre-order bonuses and multiple limited editions for Red Dead Redemption 2. Those who pre-order will receive a fan favorite horse and a survival kit along with some cash for use in GTA Online. The pricier editions are pretty cool, and there's even a collector's box...sans game.

A leaked Xbox One screenshot from an upcoming build suggests that Cortana may soon have some company, with voice commands utilizing Alexa and Google Assistant devices added to the console's expanding repertoire. No official announcement has been made, but such a move has been rumored for many months.

Initially launched with much hype and fanfare, the asymmetrical shooter Evolve never found its niche. Now after limping along with no support and a free-to-play version the past two years, the four-on-one blaster Evolve will finally be laid to rest, as 2K Games announced it will shut down the dedicated servers for the game.

Humans won't visit alien planets beyond our solar system for many decades, but NASA has provided the next best thing -- an interactive VR visualization of what you might see if you were standing on the surface of a faraway exoplanet, complete with some retro travel posters.

If you grew up with PlayStation, you may have recognized the obscure martial art practiced by Qi'ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Teräs Käsi or "steel hands" was introduced in the Star Wars novel Shadows of the Empire and showcased in a low-rated 1997 fighting game.

One of the most recognizable muscle cars ever made, the 1967 Mustang GT500 Super Snake with a 427-inch engine and 550 horsepower, will get a new lease on life with an extremely limited run from Shelby American and a price tag of a quarter million dollars.

China's latest lunar rover will land on the far side of the moon, and that presents some communication challenges. A high-tech relay satellite with a name from Chinese folklore will not only support the rover but search for clues about the origin of the universe.

Strategy game publisher Paradox announced an epic new game from well-known fantasy game developer Triumph Studios at the PDXCON in Sweden. Age of Wonders: Planetfall will let you build a new civilizartion from the ruins of a cosmic dark age in the new 4x turn-based strategy game.

With its fiscal year coming to a close, Ubisoft only needed a week of sales for Far Cry 5 to bump its annual sales above the $2 billion mark. The open-world shooter more than doubled the first-week haul of its predecessor, with strong sales for The Division and Assassin's Creed: Origins also finishing out the quarter.

One of prolific director Ron Howard's earliest films was a collaboration with George Lucas for an epic fantasy adventure, and now he says he'd like to return to the world created in Willow more than three decades ago. Our only question is, what took you so long?

When you think of Twitch, you don't normally think of traditional sports like football and basketball. The company hopes to change that with a new channel called Stadium, delivering 24/7 events, highlights, and commentary on sports. Twitch will also be broadcasting Thursday night NFL games free during the 2018 season.

A coded message hidden inside the latest expansion for Destiny 2 sent the community into a frenzy last week, as they tried to decipher it and figure out what it meant. The real-life treasure of a mystical spear and a cache of gold coins was finally discovered atop a mountain, where it had been hidden by the developers.

Hulu has announced the premiere date for the first episodes of Castle Rock, the horror anthology series produced by Stephen King and J.J. Abrams. The new trailer also reveals the unsettling darkness that pervades the town and its inhabitants, and includes some references to characters from previous King novels.

The inductees for the 2018 World Video Game Hall of Fame have been revealed, and they include a boisterous sportscaster, a daring archaeologist, a blue-haired adventurer, and even a historic relic from the '60s. Every year The Strong museum honors games whose reach has extended beyond the realm of gamng and into pop culture.

In honor of the new Star Trek: Discovery TV series, check out these Alexa Star Trek Easter eggs that are sure to delight dedicated Trek fans

MoviePass is great for film fans, but the days of unlimited movies may be coming to an end. New restrictions on subscriptions limit the number of movies you can see per month and don't let you see the same movie twice. Executives contend that the new rules only impact a small number of subscribers and the service encourages people to see different films.

The European Space Agency has just released an eye-popping new star map from the Gaia space telescope, including a virtual reality tour of the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond. From star clusters to quasars to distant galaxies, this massive compilation of data will keep astronomers busy for years.

Stories told around the campfire are a horror movie staple, and veteran director Alexandre Aja has brought the genre into virtual reality with a new anthology series. With the premiere of the first episode at the Tribeca Film Festival, the first two episodes are free to watch on Oculus and Gear VR.

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, is popular in Russia because it's a secure method of communication. Russian security, however, wants backdoor access and is threatening to block the app entirely.

After prevailing in court against secure encrypted messaging service Telegram, Russian regulators and security officials found that trying to ban something on the internet is easier said than done. The attempted ban interrupted service across the country -- and it may be a precursor of things to come.

A trio of Japanese companies has made many childhood dreams come true with a real-life transformer robot that morphs into a sleek sports car at the push of a button.

Most Netflix films get no respect in Hollywood, because they don't screen in theaters like other movies do. Now the streaming giant is considering purchasing a theater chain to showcase its films and generate some Oscar buzz.

Using high-resolution cameras and 3D imaging, Google has opened up world heritage sites around the world for exploration to anyone with a virtual reality headset. The Open Heritge project is a collaboration with the non-profit foundation CyArk.

The newest update for the PC versions of Assassin's Creed: Origins is a control panel that lets you adjust many of the settings in the game, such as health, enemy awareness, attack strength, and even the number of animals you can tame.