Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways. Lots of people are excited about the idea of using plants to help us draw down some of the excess carbon dioxide we’ve been pumping into the atmosphere. It would be nice to think that we could reforest…
Smaller on the outside, bigger on the inside, and it goes farther on a single charge. Nissan provided flights from Austin to San Diego and then to Washington, DC, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Nissan Leaf. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. SAN DIEGO—The original Nissan…
North Korea test-fired a powerful new solid rocket motor for its next-generation ICBM. Welcome to Edition 8.10 of the Rocket Report! Dear readers, if everything goes according to plan, four astronauts are less than six months away from traveling around the far side of the Moon and breaking free…
“He wanted to make more usable and friendly to people who weren’t geeks.” Consider the cul-de-sac. It leads off the main street past buildings of might-have-been to a dead-end disconnected from the beaten path. Computing history, of course, is filled with such terminal diversions, most never to be…
Companies work to finalize terms as OpenAI pursues for-profit restructuring. On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development in a relationship that has grown increasingly complex as both companies compete for customers in the AI market and…
Physicists spliced merger’s gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface areas. Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, the newly formed black…
“We are all addicted to hypervisors, and that needs to change.” VMware will lose a significant chunk of business over the next three years, according to Gartner research VP Julia Palmer. Of course, some organizations have already abandoned VMware or are plotting partial or total migrations. Broadcom acquired the…
The Ars Difficulty Matrix™ helps us analyze the many dimensions of Silksong’s challenges. For seven years, the discussion around Hollow Knight: Silksong focused on the cult-like levels of devotion among fans patiently waiting for the sequel. Now that Silksong has been available for about a week, though, that discussion…
Gmail reorganizes its order-tracking and promotion filters ahead of the holiday season. An update to Gmail begins rolling out soon, readying Google’s premier email app for all your upcoming holiday purchases. Gmail has been surfacing shipment tracking for some time now, but Google will now add a separate view…
“This is the first time we’ll have a space layer fully integrated into our warfighting operations.” The first 21 satellites in a constellation that could become a cornerstone for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense shield successfully launched from California Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon…
