“You don’t have to claim that they’re aliens to make these exciting.” A few days ago, an inscrutable interstellar interloper made its closest approach to Mars, where a fleet of international spacecraft seek to unravel the red planet’s ancient mysteries. Several of the probes encircling Mars took a break…
Workers with ropes could make the moai “walk” in zig-zag motion along roads tailor-made for the purpose. Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island…
Dozens of new models are in the pipeline. The end of US tax credits for buying electric vehicles has changed the market in ways that are still unfolding. I spoke this week with people closely monitoring the auto industry to get a sense of what’s next. They said the…
New laptop CPUs replace confusing bifurcated Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake lineups. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but the press that Intel has generated in the last year has certainly been testing the boundaries of the aphorism. Is it good when your company posts an…
Four motors, 800 V, more than 1,000 horsepower, and it’s all made in-house. Ferrari provided flights from Washington to Bologna and accommodation so Ars could visit its factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MARANELLO, ITALY—The E-Building is one of the newest on Ferrari’s sprawling factory complex. One…
“Damage is being done already. Even if funding is reinstated, we have already lost people.” NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to…
Central bank says market concentration hasn’t been this extreme in 50 years. AI bubble talk is in the air, and among the chorus of voices warning of an AI-fueled market bubble (which includes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos) is the Bank of England, which warned on…
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else. Salesforce says it’s refusing to pay an extortion demand made by a crime syndicate that claims to have stolen roughly 1 billion records from dozens of Salesforce customers. The threat group making the demands began their campaign in…
Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years. In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15. In August of 2016, Logitech launched Pop switches, which provide quick access to a range…
Google delivers another phone that is slightly better than its predecessor—is that enough? When the first foldable phones came along, they seemed like a cool evolution of the traditional smartphone form factor and, if they got smaller and cheaper, like something people might actually want. After more than five…
