The refreshed Volvos also get new infotainment systems with Gemini onboard. Volvo provided flights from Washington, DC, to London, England, and accommodation so Ars could see its refreshed vehicles. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. There must be a case of upgrade fever taking hold in Gothenburg. Yesterday,…
“The United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force.” Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made the first public declaration Monday that the United States has placed “space control weapons” in orbit, an announcement that will surely reverberate in the power centers of Beijing…
“Hello, I’m an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.” AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a “complex social system in which humans…
Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI. Elon Musk is seemingly done attacking Apple over its decision to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone features. Back in 2024, when the partnership was first announced, Musk slammed the integration as an agreement from Apple to let OpenAI install “creepy…
Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale? China leads the world in churning out humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs that also happen to be the most affordable on the market—and Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing is arguably one of the people most responsible for that…
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps. As previously announced, Apple has today released 2026’s major annual updates for its operating systems, including iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27. Siri AI—a large language model-based and…
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry. For years now, the major frontier AI labs have all been acting as if they’re in an all-out, winner-take-all race with control of world-changing machine superintelligence (or at least market-changing artificial general intelligence) at the finish…
The trick isn’t using perovskites—the trick is making them last. In one episode of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Birdman, the eponymous hero struggles to fight the evil Dr. Shark aboard a submarine without solar energy to recharge his powers. So Birdman would surely appreciate the new perovskite solar cells developed…
Isotopic analysis revealed the most likely source to be Brimham Rocks, not the nearby Plumpton Rocks. Stonehenge is the most famous example of megalithic architecture across Britain and Ireland, but there are plenty of others, including Calanais, Newgrange, and Avebury, as well as the Devil’s Arrows. The latter is…
Valve’s new $1,059 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR “revolution.” In the 2010s, Valve was at the forefront of a virtual reality revolution that looked to some like it would upend the gaming industry. The Valve of six to ten years ago seemed committed to being a…
