Pretty little phones with pretty big price tags. For the last several years, Motorola’s smartphone headliners were the Razr flip phones, but 2026 is different. This time around, Moto’s first tablet-style foldable, the Razr Fold, somewhat overshadows the flip phones, but a bulky $2,000 folding phone that isn’t made…
Sub-$600 laptops have existed for years, but consistently good ones remain rare. It seems fair to say that Apple’s MacBook Neo took the rest of the PC industry by surprise. Companies are used to competing on price and features with $1,000-and-up Apple laptops like the MacBook Air and MacBook…
“BadHost” was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads. Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and credentials to third-party accounts,…
Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story. Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But that’s something that evolved…
But there are some real-world constraints that virtual pinball could easily ignore. If you owned a Windows computer in the late ’90s or early ’00s, you probably remember 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet, a surprisingly competent virtual table included for free with multiple Microsoft OS releases through…
We talk with Gernot Döllner, CEO of Audi AG, about where he’s taking the company. Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could see its new Q, as well as drive its new RS5, which you can read about later this week. While…
The interior is spectacular; the exterior looks better in person than on screen. Ferrari provided flights from Washington, DC, to Rome and accommodation so Ars could see the Luce. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ROME—The arrival of any new Ferrari that isn’t a two-seater is usually controversial,…
1,139 horsepower, 400 kW charging, brutally fast, and brutally expensive. Porsche provided flights from Albany, New York, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could drive the electric Cayenne Coupe. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MUNICH, GERMANY—Think about every fast Porsche you’ve ever seen on the road—the…
Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it? Last week, the US government announced $2 billion in investments in quantum computing companies, allocating $100 million each to a range of startups in exchange for equity in the companies. Those could be make-or-break…
Consensus and genre labels aren’t reliable predictors of what you’ll enjoy. I don’t like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I’m sorry to disappoint you. I know it’s confusing, and I hope you will still respect me. I had to say that a lot back in 2015. When the game…
