Co-author: “The unique geometry of the valves is the key; they act as collapsible pistons” to deliver venom. Credit: Ramirez-Esquivel et al 202 Credit: Ramirez-Esquivel et al 202 Honey bees are known to leave their stingers embedded in tender flesh once they sting you and fly away. Scientists have…
“No more hand-written code” or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter. Epic Games is shifting to an “AI first” development strategy for its collaboration with the Walt Disney Company, letting AI models write all the code and guide all the artwork for an upcoming shooter. That’s according to…
You can get a universe in your pocket if you have an iPhone 11 or later. Just over 10 years after its initial release, space exploration and survival crafting game No Man’s Sky is making its way to the iPhone and iPad, Apple and developer Hello Games announced today.…
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable. When Russia began attacking Ukrainian data centers and telecommunication infrastructure, it apparently failed to prepare for possible retaliation. Now Russia’s digital services are facing widespread outages after Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out three of the largest data centers owned by…
Kojima’s discontinued “playable trailer” is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives. For over a decade now, the only “official” way to play Hideo Kojima’s cult classic, P.T.—the long-discontinued “playable trailer” for Kojima’s canceled “Silent Hills” project—has been via one of the increasingly rare PlayStation 4s…
Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year. Formula 1’s lengthy 2026 season is entering its final stretch. The sport took to the floodlit streets of Singapore on Sunday night, but Saturday saw action, too; this Grand Prix weekend was also the final of…
The Fitbit Edge offers more than the Air, but it’s not a real smartwatch. Google is releasing its second Fitbit tracker of 2026, offering fans of the aging Charge 6 a more refined option. The new Fitbit Edge slots right in between the Pixel Watch 5 and the Fitbit…
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale. No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working in warehouses around the clock to make tens of millions of same-day and one-day package deliveries happen…
Alex Gibney’s provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there’s not much new here for Ars readers. Elon Musk is a very familiar figure to Ars readers, given his massive influence (for better and worse) on the technology sector over the last 20 years. Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s latest…
Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin. For about a decade, the mainstream understanding has been that psychedelics cause chaos in the brain. Brain networks—the stable patterns of communication that handle vision, attention, or our sense of self, and more—loosen and start talking to each other…
