For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep, and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West, an area twice…
Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms. There are some obvious big picture issues that stand between us and useful quantum computing. Issues like whether we can make enough high-quality hardware qubits to connect into the error-corrected logical qubits we need, and how we generate the states…
More police and firefighters use drones to catch and deter illegal fireworks. More cities and towns deployed drones to spot illegal fireworks during the Fourth of July celebrations commemorating America’s 250th anniversary—leading to a $100,000 fine in one instance and coming as part of a broader national trend of…
The Quest shipwreck is in worse shape than expected, but it has turned into a thriving marine ecosystem. Back in 2024, we reported on the discovery of the Quest shipwreck, the polar exploration vessel that served Arctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on his last voyage. Shackleton died before reaching…
Dozens of titles too taxing for Steam Deck are still unrated for the new hardware. About a month ago, Valve announced that it would expand its long-standing Steam Deck Verified program to the now-shipping Steam Machine, offering a separate rating of Steam games’ compatibility and playability for the fresh…
Affected users will have to configure their lights and settings all over again. A firmware update is behind recent reports that some Hue Bridge Pro smart hubs are no longer working, Ars Technica has confirmed. In late June, there were reports of some Hue Bridge Pro devices not working…
The Earth may not be that massive, but it still distorts space-time. Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and time around with it in a perpetual swirl. This phenomenon is known as frame dragging or the…
VW’s plan calls for half as many models but didn’t mention closures or job cuts. Volkswagen Group is doing well with electric vehicle sales in its home region, but costly tariffs and eroding market share in China and North America have been hurting it badly. Europe’s largest automaker, which…
The AC culture wars may be solved by advances in environmentally friendly technology. If you’re reading this while the blinds are drawn against yet another heat wave and wondering whether it’s finally time to buy an air conditioner, you’re far from alone. At the end of June, as temperatures…
Now it’s an arms race between OEMs locking down chips and tuners trying to crack them. Anyone who has followed the aftermarket automotive performance industry for long enough can tell you just how dramatically it has changed over the past few decades. What once required mechanical tinkering and a…
