Officially supported dinky display works as a tiny all-in-one or smart home hub. The folks at Raspberry Pi have announced a new touchscreen component for people using boards to create miniature touchscreen appliances: The 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is a 720p IPS multi-touch screen that’s natively supported…
Revisiting the 1996 RPG exposes both genius and madness. Ostensibly, C:ArsGames is to some extent about actually driving a few game purchases, but in reality it’s mostly an excuse for me and my colleagues to wax nostalgic about the games that were formative for us. Case in point: This…
Despite everything, it’s still possible to build decent PCs for decent prices. Sometimes I go longer than I intend without writing an updated version of our PC building guide. And while I could just claim to be too busy to spend hours on Newegg or Amazon or other sites…
Cocaine normally makes the heart race, but in this case the dog was lethargic, with a slower heart rate. Every dog owner knows that canines are natural scavengers and that vigilance is required to ensure they don’t eat toxic substances. But accidental ingestions still happen—like the chihuahua who vets…
The good news is that, for now, Erin appears unlikely to directly strike land. After several days of working its way across the open and at times hostile Atlantic Ocean this week, Hurricane Erin found more favorable conditions and exploded in intensity on Friday night. Shortly before noon on…
New experiments focused on understanding the enigmatic neutrino may offer insights. Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart,…
“SpaceX can now proceed with Starship Flight 10 launch operations under its current license.” SpaceX is continuing with final preparations for the 10th full-scale test flight of the company’s enormous Starship rocket after receiving launch approval Friday from the Federal Aviation Administration. Engineers completed a final test of Starship’s…
Fast, removable storage could be one way to address soaring game install sizes. Earlier this year, Nintendo helped popularize the microSD Express standard by requiring it for the new Switch 2 console. Created in 2019, the specification had languished in relative obscurity for years because the cheap, plentiful non-Express…
Why is China’s heavy-lift Long March 5B able to launch only 10 Guowang satellites at a time? Welcome to Edition 8.06 of the Rocket Report! Two of the world’s most storied rocket builders not named SpaceX achieved major successes this week. Arianespace’s Ariane 6 rocket launched from French Guiana…
Acura will step into the software-defined vehicle era with its US-made electric vehicle. Acura’s next RSX crossover has broken cover. The automaker has used this year’s Monterey Car Week as a stage to show off a bright yellow prototype—the color is called Propulsion Yellow Pearl—ahead of the production car…
