Seven-figure EV hypercars are struggling to make an emotional connection with buyers. Ford provided flights from Albany to San Francisco and accommodation so Ars could attend Monterey Car Week. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Monterey Car Week is an annual celebration of automotive culture at the extremes:…
Town pitches companies to take advantage of “reliable, cost-effective heating and cooling.” This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Hayden, a small town in the mountains of northwest Colorado, is…
AAA tested a number of different systems in Los Angeles highway traffic. Advanced driver assistance systems—also known as ADAS—come in a few variations. Blind spot monitoring, collision warnings, and emergency braking act like a second pair of eyes and ears, monitoring the car’s environment to warn the driver, or…
Reengineered, pollen could become a range of eco-friendly objects. At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like your typical research facility—scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the background. But the orange-yellow stains on the lab coats slung on hooks hint…
Recovery issue is already resolved; SSD problems have been trickier to diagnose. When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you’re inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect lesser-used features or obscure edge…
Ant eating is widely distributed across mammalian lineages. If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly gone down this path—not once or twice, but…
“This is a strategy to keep the US from intervening… that’s what their space architecture is designed to do.” US defense officials have long worried that China’s Guowang satellite network might give the Chinese military access to the kind of ubiquitous connectivity US forces now enjoy with SpaceX’s Starlink…
Price hikes go into effect August 21; standard PS5 will now start at $550. Sony will join Microsoft and Nintendo in raising US prices across its entire game console lineup, the company announced today. Pricing for all current versions of the PlayStation 5 console will increase by $50 starting…
The Pixel 10 series arrives with a power upgrade but no SIM card slot. Google has shifted its product timeline in 2025. Android 16 dropped in May, an earlier release aimed at better lining up with smartphone launches. Google’s annual hardware refresh is also happening a bit ahead of…
ROG Xbox Ally runs a stripped-down Windows that isn’t publicly available (yet). Asus and Microsoft will be launching their ROG Xbox Ally series of handheld gaming PCs starting October 16, according to an Asus announcement that went out today. An Xbox-branded extension of Asus’ existing ROG Ally handheld line,…
