Here's your first look at Netflix's 'Voltron' series

As Netflix expands its suite of original programming it's going to the nostalgia well once again. The good news here is that instead of another sitcom spinoff like Fuller House, we're getting Voltron: Legendary Defender.

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NASA catches the flash of a supernova for the first time

Spotting supernovae is relatively easy, but witnessing the immediate aftermath of those exploding stars? That's hard -- however, NASA has managed just that.

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Insanity

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Quantum Computer Could Mean End Of Encryption

Researchers have built a computer that can tackle a fundamental challenge of cracking present-day encryption schemes: factoring large numbers. The computer uses laser pulses to carry out Shor’s algorithm on each atom, to correctly factor the number 15.

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DARPA's Revolutionary New VTOL X-Plane Design Looks Out Of This World

DARPA’s VTOL X-plane initiative takes a cocktail of totally innovative technologies and puts them together in one aircraft design that could very well solve some of the chronic limitations of vertical takeoff and landing capable aircraft.

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Kelly’s Heroes: Lockheed’s five finest airplanes

Almost exactly 106 years ago, one of the world's greatest aircraft designers—Clarence "Kelly" Johnson—was born in Ishpeming, Michigan. And since we're gigantic aviation nerds here at Ars Technica, the week of his birthday is as good a reason as any to celebrate some of his legendary designs.

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This New Blackest Black Material Is Even Blacker Than What We Thought Was the Blackest Black Material

Surrey NanoSystems is famous for creating Vantablack, a material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 percent of visible light. That’s a lot. Things basically disappear when coated with the Vantablack carbon nanotubes. And yet, they’ve somehow made the material even blacker.

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“Microsoft Is Moving Against The Entire PC Industry”, Says Epic Founder

Tim Sweeney, programmer and co-founder of Epic Games, says that “we must fight” Microsoft and their Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative, which makes certain Windows 10 features only available to developers who agree to sell their game via the official Windows Store.

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Engineering the future of fusion

The generation of power from nuclear fusion is not a new concept. For more than three-quarters of a century, we've known that stars such as the sun compress hydrogen atoms together to create helium. When these light atoms are fused together, energy is released.

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