Computational model lets users tweak parameters to hear effect on the sound in early design process. Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that painstaking process with their new…
Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more. Toyota provided flights from Albany, New York, to Tokyo and accommodation so Ars could visit Woven City. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2020, Toyota…
Crushing soda cans for science, why dolphins swim so fast, how urine helps mushrooms communicate, and more It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that…
Acoustic fire suppression goes commercial. In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor activates and…
Op-ed: Valve has made a dent in Windows’ gaming share, but can it keep going? Valve and its SteamOS operating system have already done what a bunch of companies (including Apple) have been trying to do for decades: make a dent in Windows’ dominance in PC gaming. I mean,…
The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root. Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since, a situation that’s preventing the OS provider from communicating normally following the botched disclosure of a…
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on. Amazon’s cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian…
Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal. Scorpions are armed with dual front pincers (technically known as chelae or pedipalp appendages) and a venom-injecting telson, or stinger, on the posterior of their tail. These things look dangerous enough on their own, but a chemical examination showed…
We’ll soon get to see the brand’s first EV; first, a more honed V12 four-seater. Did you know that SUVs now account for 6 in 10 new vehicles sold in Europe? That’s even higher than in the US or China, where market share for lifted hatchbacks currently runs at…
Two launches this week delivered 61 more satellites to orbit for the Amazon Leo broadband network. Welcome to Edition 8.39 of the Rocket Report! There’s a lot of news to share in the universe of powerful rockets this week, and we’re delighted to sum it up in this week’s…
