Format is “more aligned with how artists are making and releasing music in the streaming era.” In 2019, Record Store Day partnered with manufacturer Crosley to revive a 3-inch collectible vinyl format first launched in Japan in 2004. Five years later, a new 4-inch-sized format called Tiny Vinyl wants…
The new 911 variant is 14 seconds quicker around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Today, Porsche debuted a new 911 variant at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany. It’s the most powerful 911 to date, excluding some limited-run models, and may well be the quickest to 60 mph from a…
One scientist says it’s like buying a car and running it into a tree to save on gas money. It was in 2002, during the George W. Bush administration, when NASA decided to put a satellite into orbit to track emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pumped…
An all-new iPhone variant, plus a long list of useful (if predictable) upgrades. Apple’s next product event is happening on September 9, and while the company hasn’t technically dropped any hints about what’s coming, anyone with a working memory and a sense of object permanence can tell you that an…
CEO says the game is projected to meet expectations, but there are cuts anyway. Firaxis Games, the studio that developed Civilization VII, is undergoing layoffs. The news went public when a former employee took to LinkedIn to announce her unemployment; Game Developer picked the story up, and publisher 2K…
The EU could seek to break up Google’s ad division. Google may have escaped the most serious consequences in its most recent antitrust fight with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), but the European Union is still gunning for the search giant. After a brief delay, the European Commission…
No OLED required. Lenovo has proven again that it isn’t content with PC designs. The latest era of laptops has been focused on ultralight computers that are easy to transport, but they’re hard to differentiate. However, Lenovo’s continual experimentation has brought us some unique laptop releases and concepts in…
Users can explore multiple paths without losing their original chat thread. On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people with fixed viewpoints but rather malleable tools you can rewind and redirect. The…
Data transfer speeds are much lower for Switch 2 Game Cards than for downloaded games. Nintendo’s data-free, download-unlocking Game Key Cards have proven popular with game publishers, even as they’ve drawn ire from many fans of games stored on physical media. Now, though, a developer on Star Wars Outlaws…
Class-leading efficiency and computer-controlled driving dynamics combine. BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich and accommodation so Ars could be briefed on the iX3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. BMW has an all-electric replacement for its X3 crossover on the way. When it arrives in mid-2026,…
