Twitch makes deal to escape Elon Musk suit alleging X ad boycott conspiracy

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-08 14:56:00 arstechnica.com Instead, it appears that X decided to sue Twitch after discovering that Twitch was among...

Fewer beans = great coffee if you get the pour height right

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-04-08 16:14:00 arstechnica.com Based on their findings, the authors recommend pouring hot water over your coffee grounds slowly...

Japanese railway shelter replaced in less than 6 hours by 3D-printed model

Kevin Purdy 2025-04-08 13:22:00 arstechnica.com Hatsushima is not a particularly busy station, relative to Japanese rail commuting as a whole....

Don’t call it a drone: Zipline’s uncrewed aircraft wants to reinvent retail

Tim Stevens 2025-04-08 09:00:00 arstechnica.com But the folks at Zipline don't seem to like that term. Everyone I spoke with...

Trump gives China one day to end retaliations or face extra 50% tariffs

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-07 14:58:00 arstechnica.com Last week, Politico reported that some top Republicans are pushing to reassert Congress' power over...

FreeDOS 1.4 brings new fixes and features to modern and vintage DOS-based PCs

Andrew Cunningham 2025-04-07 16:39:00 arstechnica.com We're used to updating Windows, macOS, and Linux systems at least once a month (and...

Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much

Kyle Orland 2025-04-07 17:00:00 arstechnica.com Things just cost more now In justifying the $450 price of the Switch 2, Nintendo...

Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs

Andrew Cunningham 2025-04-07 18:34:00 arstechnica.com Framework, the designers and sellers of the modular and repairable Framework Laptop 13 and other...

Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality

Benj Edwards 2025-04-07 15:54:00 arstechnica.com Meta constructed the Llama 4 models using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which is one way...

F1 in Japan reminds us a great track might not make for a great race

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-04-07 12:34:00 arstechnica.com Throughout the practice sessions, the orange and black McLarens had the measure of everyone...

Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty

Kyle Orland 2025-04-04 11:03:00 arstechnica.com Nintendo Switch 2 preorders, which were due to begin on April 9, are being delayed...

EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network

Jon Brodkin 2025-04-04 14:40:00 arstechnica.com European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed...

Gemini “coming together in really awesome ways,” Google says after 2.5 Pro release

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-04 15:15:00 arstechnica.com Google doesn't break out earnings from its new AI ventures, but we can safely assume...

Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0

Andrew Cunningham 2025-04-04 15:37:00 arstechnica.com On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft...

Dustland Delivery plays like a funny, tough, post-apocalyptic Oregon Trail

Kevin Purdy 2025-04-05 07:30:00 arstechnica.com Road trips with just two people always have their awkward silences. In Dustland Delivery, my character,...

NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

Dan Goodin 2025-04-04 16:17:00 arstechnica.com A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their...

Judge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-04 17:19:00 arstechnica.com "Taken as true, these facts give rise to a plausible inference that defendants at a...

Midjourney introduces first new image generation model in over a year

Samuel Axon 2025-04-04 18:34:00 arstechnica.com AI image generator Midjourney released its first new model in quite some time today; dubbed...

Not just Switch 2: ESA warns Trump’s tariffs will hurt the entire game industry

Kyle Orland 2025-04-04 16:36:00 arstechnica.com This morning's announcement that Nintendo is delaying US preorders for the Switch 2 immediately increased...

We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built

Jacek Krywko 2025-04-04 13:37:00 arstechnica.com Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s...

USDA cuts could cause long-term damage, reverse hard-won progress

Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News 2025-04-04 09:57:00 arstechnica.com For decades, environmental and farm groups pushed Congress, the USDA and farmers...