We hope downforce doesn’t ruin the racing when it arrives in a couple of years. Formula E provided flights from Washington to London and accommodation so Ars could attend the London ePrix. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. LONDON, ENGLAND—Formula E’s 11th season came to a close in…
Nvidia will cover gamers who take advantage of Windows 10’s extended updates. If you last updated your gaming PC in late 2016, Nvidia has two pieces of bad news to share with you today. First, it will no longer support the Maxwell, Pascal, or Volta GPU architectures with new…
US semiconductor giant is trying to revive sales in the country. Beijing has summoned Nvidia over alleged security issues with its chips, in a blow to the US company’s push to revive sales in the country after Washington granted approval for the export of a made-for-China chip. China’s cyber…
Samsung’s new flagship foldable is a huge improvement over last year’s model. The first foldable phones hit the market six years ago, and they were rife with compromises and shortcomings. Many of those problems have persisted, but little by little, foldables have gotten better. With the release of the…
Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware. Hackers planted a Raspberry Pi equipped with a 4G modem in the network of an unnamed bank in an attempt to siphon money out of the financial institution’s ATM system, researchers reported Wednesday. The researchers with security firm…
Google has fixed the bug, which it says affected only “a tiny fraction of websites.” Google is fond of saying its mission is to “organize the world’s information,” but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several…
The feathers can emit two frequencies of laser light from multiple regions across their colored eyespots. Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific…
NIH leaders got funding-pause memo Tuesday afternoon. Trump admin then backpedaled. Amid the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 billion allotted by lawmakers to fund life-saving biomedical research via the National Institutes of Health was temporarily frozen and then…
AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement. On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have used AI to search for information, while only 37 percent of all Americans have used AI…
Buying Windows 10 a one-year stay of execution doesn’t have to cost anything. Officially, Microsoft will stop providing new security updates for Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, a little over a decade after its initial release. It’s a stick that Microsoft is using to push upgrades to…
