Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire. Tesla’s shareholders are ready to vote tomorrow on whether to give Elon Musk an even more vast slice of the company in an effort to keep him focused on selling electric vehicles. Currently, the trolling…
Gemini is rolling out to Maps on Android and iOS, with Android Auto coming soon. Google is in the process of purging Assistant across its products, and the next target is Google Maps. Starting today, Gemini will begin rolling out in Maps, powering new experiences for navigation, location info,…
Up to 700 kW regen braking, new Bridgestone tires, and it’s even fully recyclable. Formula E officially revealed its next electric racing car today. At first glance, the Gen4 machine looks similar to machinery of seasons past, but looks are deceiving—it’s “so much more menacing,” according to Formula E…
The three-man crew was supposed to return to Earth on Wednesday to wrap up six months in space. Three Chinese astronauts were due to depart the Tiangong space station, reenter the atmosphere, and land in the remote desert of Inner Mongolia on Wednesday. Instead, officials ordered the crew to…
Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse. The Atlantic hurricane season is drawing to a close, and with the tropics quieting down for a winter slumber, the focus of forecasters turns to evaluating what worked and what did not during the preceding season. This year, the…
Can more creator control fix motion smoothing? Motion smoothing has a bad reputation among most cinephiles, as well as many home theater enthusiasts and content creators. Also known as motion or video interpolation, motion smoothing is available in virtually every modern TV today. It’s supposed to remove judder from…
Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready. The tech industry is on a tear, building data centers for AI as quickly as they can buy up the land. The sky-high energy costs and logistical headaches of managing all those data centers have prompted interest in space-based…
A dedicated organ grows the fungus, which deters parasitic wasps. Many insect species hear using tympanal organs, membranes roughly resembling our eardrums but located on their legs. Grasshoppers, mantises, and moths all have them, and for decades, we thought that female stinkbugs of the Dinidoridae family have them, too,…
The low-traction surfaces of the Dumont Dunes are a perfect test location. Mercedes-Benz provided flights from Washington, DC, to Las Vegas and accommodation so Ars could drive the prototype GLC. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. LAS VEGAS—About 100 miles from Las Vegas, at the northern end of…
New updates include a small but noteworthy batch of fixes and features. After several weeks of testing, Apple has released the final versions of the 26.1 update to its various operating systems. Those include iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and the HomePod operating system, all of which switched…
