Audi says it wants to be an F1 title contender by 2030. Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich and accommodation so Ars could visit its motorsports facility and see its F1 car. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MUNICH, Germany—Audi’s long-awaited Formula 1 team gave the…
IBM follows through on its June promises, plus more trapped ion news. The end of the year is usually a busy time in the quantum computing arena, as companies often try to announce that they’ve reached major milestones before the year wraps up. This year has been no exception.…
SteamOS-powered headset sports semi-modular design, wireless “low-latency” PC streaming. Six years ago, Valve made its second big virtual reality push, launching the Valve Index headset alongside VR blockbuster Half-Life Alyx. Since then, the company seems to have lost interest in virtual reality gaming, letting competitors like Meta release regular…
SteamOS-powered cube for your TV targets early 2026 launch, no pricing details. Nearly four years after the Steam Deck changed the world of portable gaming, Valve is getting ready to release SteamOS-powered hardware designed for the living room TV, or even as a desktop PC gaming replacement. The simply…
A recent die-off in Florida puts the spotlight on corals’ survival strategies. Scientists have found that the 2023 marine heat wave caused “functional extinction” of two Acropora reef-building coral species living in the Florida Reef, which stretches from the Dry Tortugas National Park to Miami. “At this point, we…
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases. Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called “world models,” the Financial Times reported. The French-US…
New components make it more useful and powerful but no less odd. The original Framework Laptop 16 was trying to crack a problem that laptop makers have wrestled with on and off for years: Can you deliver a reasonably powerful, portable workstation and gaming laptop that supports graphics card…
In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique. In February 1982, Apple employee #8 Chris Espinosa faced a problem that would feel familiar to anyone who has ever had a micromanaging boss: Steve Jobs wouldn’t stop critiquing his calculator design…
In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique. In February 1982, Apple employee #8 Chris Espinosa faced a problem that would feel familiar to anyone who has ever had a micromanaging boss: Steve Jobs wouldn’t stop critiquing his calculator design…
New system allows devices to connect directly to secure space in Google’s AI servers. Google’s current mission is to weave generative AI into as many products as it can, getting everyone accustomed to, and maybe even dependent on, working with confabulatory robots. That means it needs to feed the…
