Great performance for the price, if you ignore the price of RAM, SSDs, and GPUs. Many of our graphics card reviews early last year and in the early 2020s focused on the difficulties of reviewing and recommending graphics cards when the manufacturer-suggested price points effectively didn’t exist. Now, reviews…
This will not be turning up in the church rummage sale. Recent repairs to a centuries-old tile floor at a church in the Netherlands may have revealed the skeleton of the French Musketeer d’Artagnan. Today, Charles de Batz de Castlemore, Count d’Artagnan, is best known as a character in…
The mid-engined Corvette gets a new variant. Chevrolet provided flights from Albany, New York, to Las Vegas, Nevada, and accommodation so Ars could check out the new Grand Sport. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Chevrolet has developed something of a modern tradition with recent generations of the…
For much of the Western US, winter 2026 was the year snow never came. Across much of the Western United States, winter 2026 was the year the snow never came. Many ski resorts got by with snowmaking but shut down their winter operations early. Fire officials and water supply…
Company calls Guardian the “most capable 911 response drone ever.” Drone startup BRINC announced Tuesday a significant upgrade for its law enforcement drones. BRINC’s newest model, Guardian, will have Starlink connectivity on every unit—a first for commercially available drones. This new model, which will enter production later this year,…
Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago. NASA’s announcement Tuesday that it will “pause” work on a lunar space station and focus on building a surface base on the Moon was no big surprise to anyone paying attention…
AI-generated content is still acceptable for now. Reddit will require accounts that exhibit “automated or otherwise fishy behavior” to verify that a human runs them, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a Reddit post today. The verification process aims to combat unwanted bots from flooding Reddit at a time…
The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy. The downloadable versions of Nintendo’s first-party Switch games have always cost the same amount to buy, despite the costs of manufacturing and shipping physical releases. This was still true when the Switch 2 launched last year,…
Study links two crises: Climate change and antibiotic-resistant infections. For as long as we’ve known that soil bacteria manufacture molecular weapons to fight each other, we’ve been swiping their battle plans. In clinics and hospitals, those turf-war weapons have become miraculous drugs of modern medicine—antibiotics—that blow away otherwise deadly…
Appointee list is in keeping with the administration’s hostility toward science. PCAST, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, is generally not a high-profile group. It tends to be noticed when things go wrong, such as when the PCAST head named by Biden had to resign due…
