Drone boat battle occurs as Ukraine and Russia target Black Sea ports and ships. In the world’s first clash of the drone boats, a Ukrainian naval drone destroyed a Russian explosive drone boat using a remote-controlled machine gun turret. This comes as the war in Ukraine has already seen…
The new carmaker is a joint venture between the Saudi PIF and Foxconn. Ceer provided flights from Detroit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and accommodation so Ars could visit the factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia—It may come as a surprise to…
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director. On Friday, The Washington Post reported on a contentious White House meeting in which the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya, tried to fend off yet another effort to place funding decisions under political control.…
The M4 Mac mini was one of Apple’s best values. The $899 M6 mini, not so much. The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts. These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re…
Googlebooks offer premium hardware and deep smartphone integration, but you may not like the price. Google is ready to take a swing at laptops… again. The company has had a lot of success in phones, but it has struggled to parlay that into an effective strategy for larger screens.…
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP’s inner circle. Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history. It tainted hundreds of open-source programs…
Unlike previous Ferrari four-seaters, this one is better for humans than cargo. Ferrari’s two-seat sports cars might be the brand’s identity, but the Italian automaker has always catered to customers who want to bring more than one passenger along for the ride. It started building cars with back seats…
Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures. For most of the last century, T. rex was pictured as a sluggish, tail-dragging reptile that had to warm up in the sun before it could go anywhere. Then, further research changed that view, replacing it with…
Research suggests that bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits. Learning another language is a highly complex mental activity. It requires people to remember words, distinguish unfamiliar sounds, recognize patterns, work out grammatical rules, and retrieve the right expression at the right moment. All of this happens while listening, interpreting, and…
Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they’re changing. For decades, astronomers thought rings were something only giant planets had. That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus passed in front of a star and blinked twice…
