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Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons

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This week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth touted their desire to “make Star Trek real”—while unconsciously reminding us of what the utopian science fiction franchise is fundamentally about. Their Tuesday event was the latest in Hegseth’s ongoing “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, which was held at SpaceX headquarters in Starbase, Texas. […]

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What’s behind the phenomenon of ‘gamer brain’

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If you’ve ever refused to knock down a game’s difficulty level, or chased a purposefully pointless achievement, you might have this pernicious but pleasurable affliction• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereStudies on gaming’s effect on the brain usually focus on aggression or the cognitive benefits of playing games. The former

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Allister Frost, a former Microsoft leader and expert on business transformation.

Allister Frost: Tackling workforce anxiety for AI integration success

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Navigating workforce anxiety remains a primary challenge for leaders as AI integration defines modern enterprise success. For enterprise leaders, deploying AI is less a technical hurdle than a complex exercise in change management. The reality for many organisations is that, while algorithms offer efficiency, the human element dictates the speed of adoption. Data from the

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Love Machines by James Muldoon review – the risks and rewards of getting intimate with AI

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The sociology professor is suitably comfortable with AI helpers that he creates his own – it’s their inventors’ motives and unregulated environment he argues we should be concerned aboutIf much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In his

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Why some “breakthrough” technologies don’t work out

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Every year, MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. In fact, the 2026 version is out today. This marks the 25th year the newsroom has compiled this annual list, which means its journalists and editors have now identified 250 technologies as breakthroughs.  A few years ago, editor at large David Rotman revisited

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Good technology should change the world

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The billionaire investor Peter Thiel (or maybe his ghostwriter) once said, “We were promised flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” That quip originally appeared in a manifesto for Thiel’s venture fund in 2011. All good investment firms have a manifesto, right? This one argued for making bold bets on risky, world-changing technologies rather than

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Four months and 40 hours later: my epic battle with 2025’s most difficult video game

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When Hollow Knight: Silksong came out last summer I was suffering from so much nerve pain that I didn’t know if I’d be able to play it. But I did, and it taught me a valuable lesson about pain managementLast year I became uncomfortably well acquainted with suffering. In March I started experiencing excruciating pain

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The 15 best games to play on the Nintendo Switch in 2026

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From the greatest cartoon racing game in history to a remastered version of an Alien-inspired sci-fi shooter, here are the Switch’s must-play games• The 15 best games to play on the Nintendo Switch in 2025Although the Nintendo Switch 2 has been out for several months, not everyone has made the leap to the new machine

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