Help increase our charity haul of nearly $18,000 in just over a week. If you’ve been too busy planning for Half-Life 3 to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry. You still have time to donate to a good cause and get a chance…
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice. The first few months of 2025 were full of graphics card reviews where we generally came away impressed with performance and completely at a loss on availability and pricing. The testing in these…
Once researchers turn to LLMs, paper counts go up, quality does not. There have been a number of high-profile cases where scientific papers have had to be retracted because they were filled with AI-generated slop—the most recent coming just two weeks ago. These instances raise serious questions about the…
Engineers at JPL are certifying the Perseverance rover to drive up to 100 kilometers. When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the…
“A calorie-neutral, drug-free, low-cost, readily available tool for when we need a boost in performance.” If you’re human, you’ve probably hollered a curse word or two (or three) when barking your shin on a table edge or hitting your thumb with a hammer. Perhaps you’ve noticed that this seems…
Forget DRS, now it’s all about corner mode, straight mode, and overtake mode. While not quite a separate dialect, Formula 1-speak can be heavy on the jargon at times. They say “box” instead of pit, “power unit” to describe the engine and hybrid system, and that’s before we get…
New method uses no freezing technology or refrigeration equipment—just water and a vacuum. Physicists at the University of Amsterdam came up with a really cool bit of Christmas decor: a miniature 3D-printed Christmas tree, a mere 8 centimeters tall, made of ice, without any refrigeration equipment or other freezing…
New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse. For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop expertise, or, at minimum, a steady hand with scissors and glue. On Tuesday, OpenAI released a tool that…
A prototype of the EV platform will be shown off at CES next month. One of the big stories of last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the debut of Donut Lab’s diminutive but powerful electric motors. When I spoke with Donut earlier this year, the company…
Major research institution dismissed as a source of “climate alarmism.” On Tuesday, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, announced that a major climate research center will be “broken up.” The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, is a significant contributor to research on…
