Lawsuit alleged Disney inflated market prices by making carriers include ESPN. The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay $50 million to subscribers of YouTube TV and DirecTV’s live TV streaming services to settle a lawsuit that claimed that Disney forced these services to raise their prices. In November…
The small bit of air in the bottle sees oxygen and other chemicals move in and out. Most people perceive a cork in a bottle of wine as a simple plug meant to keep the liquid in and the outside world out. In the recent study published in Science…
Brands Hatch, COTA, and Zandvoort will all hold an e-Prix in 2027. Formula E is in its final year for the current technical regulations, with a new single-seater EV set to be introduced at the start of next season, which begins in December in Saudi Arabia. The new car,…
Tesla, accused of failing to fix design flaws, blames driver pressing accelerator. A few days after a Tesla plowed through a Texas home and killed a grandmother, the family sued the carmaker, alleging that the Model 3’s automated assist mode was defective. In a complaint filed this week in…
From a bare-bones pickup to a loaded, wrapped SUV, here’s what some Slates will cost. This morning, Slate Auto officially announced pricing for its Slate electric truck. Ars will have some time with a prototype later today, along with—hopefully—answers to many of our remaining questions. In the meantime, we…
Order warns of national security risks if post-quantum cryptography isn’t adopted in time. The White House is drastically shortening the deadline for government agencies and organizations to adopt new quantum-resistant encryption systems that will withstand attacks that use quantum computers, as the federal government seeks to protect decades’ worth…
Climate.us has now restored everything taken down by the government. Over decades, researchers in the US government and programs it sponsored built up a tremendous number of climate resources, from comprehensive analyses to massive datasets to basic explainers meant to inform the public. And people within the government built…
Promo video comes as more US police departments fly drones as first responders. In a supposed “nationwide first” use of drones to disarm a person, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office in California promoted a video showing how a small quadcopter drone used a dangling magnet to remove a knife…
Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI. The growing use of AI contributed to Oracle laying off 21,000 workers in a year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. In its annual regulatory filing for the fiscal year ending May 31, Oracle…
Although it’s on the smaller side, this electric vehicle is not very chill. After a slower start than its major rivals, Toyota has been making up for it with a flurry of new electric vehicles for the North American market. Its first attempt, the bZ4x, was an also-ran, but…
