Porsche’s new 911 Cup debuted in iRacing, and then we took it out on the track. Porsche provided flights from Albany, New York, to Los Angeles and accommodation so Ars could drive the 911 Cup. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Video game launches for new cars are…
Formula 1’s new style of racing puts on an entertaining sprint weekend in Shanghai. Formula 1 raced in China this past weekend, just a week after the sport kicked off its 2026 season in Australia. Most of the teams had a better handle on the sport’s complicated new cars…
Apple’s over-head headphones get an update after over five years. Apple announced the AirPods Max 2 today, following up the original AirPods Max, which were announced in December 2020. The new model brings improved active noise cancellation (ANC) and other new features via an updated H2 chip. The AirPods Max…
Engineers have uncovered the mathematical rules fireflies follow to sync up their flashes. Scientists have discovered that male fireflies in a South Carolina swamp follow local interaction rules to synchronize their flashing mating displays. The research is being presented at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver.…
Technology like four-wheel steering and variable valve timing debuted in the Prelude. The Honda Prelude was never simply a car. It was an engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: compact, disciplined, and unapologetically technical. At its best, it distilled Honda’s faith in precision manufacturing and clever packaging into something…
Early Access impressions: New characters shine, but it feels like we’ve done this before. Do you remember the joyful satisfaction you felt when you really started to understand Slay the Spire? This isn’t a totally rhetorical question. If you’re reading this piece about Slay the Spire 2—published roughly a…
When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short. With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google’s DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and Go by repeatedly playing itself during training. But then…
Unicode that’s invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice. Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to detect such threats. The researchers, from firm Aikido Security, said Friday that…
Adobe says it will also give customers who “qualify” free services but is vague on details. Canceling a software subscription is supposed to be easy—that’s what US law dictates. Adobe, however, has played fast and loose with its Creative Cloud subscriptions in the past. The company was sued by…
Confused about electric vehicle voltages? You won’t be after reading this. For more than a decade, most electric vehicles have shared the same electrical backbone: a battery pack operating at roughly 400 V. It’s the invisible standard behind everything from early compliance cars to today’s bestselling EVs. But over…
