Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says

Ashley Belanger 2025-04-03 11:18:00 arstechnica.com The expert sample is not representative of the AI field, as Bender points out to...

Explaining MicroSD Express cards and why you should care about them

Andrew Cunningham 2025-04-03 10:00:00 arstechnica.com The Switch 2's additional power opens the door to more complex games that could lag...

A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor

John Timmer 2025-04-02 12:46:00 arstechnica.com Still, there were some distinct challenges involved with MoS2. In normal silicon, a transistor's threshold...

Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-02 15:40:00 arstechnica.com On the heels of releasing its most capable AI model yet, Google is making some...

Genres are bustin’ out all over in Strange New Worlds S3 teaser

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-04-02 15:52:00 arstechnica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-nHuVYY_0 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns this summer with ten new episodes. Paramount+ has...

Tesla sales and production slumped heavily in Q1 2025

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-04-02 10:34:00 arstechnica.com Tesla posted its production and sales numbers for the first quarter of 2025 this...

FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm’s privacy promises for genetic data

Jon Brodkin 2025-04-01 13:40:00 arstechnica.com Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he's keeping an eye on 23andMe's bankruptcy proceeding...

Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows

Scharon Harding 2025-04-01 14:19:00 arstechnica.com But TV brands, especially more budget ones like Vizio, are increasingly looking for new places...

Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines

Kevin Purdy 2025-04-01 14:52:00 arstechnica.com Satisfactory starts out as a game you play, then becomes a way you think. The...

Honda will sell off historic racing parts, including bits of Senna’s V10

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-04-01 22:00:00 arstechnica.com Honda's motorsport division must be doing some spring cleaning. Today, the Honda Racing Corporation...

First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant

John Timmer 2025-04-01 17:05:00 arstechnica.com Seeing stars? The plasma inside a tokamak is dynamic, meaning that it requires a lot...

Apple enables RCS messaging for Google Fi subscribers at last

Ryan Whitwam 2025-04-01 16:22:00 arstechnica.com With RCS, iPhone users can converse with non-Apple users without losing the enhanced features to...

France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-31 13:25:00 arstechnica.com A typical ATT pop-up asks a user whether to allow an app "to track your...

MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together

Benj Edwards 2025-04-01 07:30:00 arstechnica.com What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to...

Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-03-31 15:49:00 arstechnica.com Antiquity, 2025. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.37 (About DOIs). This is your brain on Esperanto and Klingon Worf, son...

DOGE accesses federal payroll system and punishes employees who objected

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-31 16:00:00 arstechnica.com Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access "to a payroll system that...

Apple updates all its operating systems, brings Apple Intelligence to Vision Pro

Andrew Cunningham 2025-03-31 16:26:00 arstechnica.com Apple dropped a big batch of medium-size software updates for nearly all of its products...

With new Gen-4 model, Runway claims to have finally achieved consistency in AI videos

Samuel Axon 2025-03-31 17:07:00 arstechnica.com For example, it was used in producing the sequence in the film Everything Everywhere All...

Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it

Kevin Purdy 2025-03-31 15:23:00 arstechnica.com 2024 was "a year of growth," according to fire-suppression company Fire Rover, but that's not...

The first flight of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket lasted just 40 seconds

Stephen Clark 2025-03-31 12:26:00 arstechnica.com Robert Habeck, Germany's vice chancellor and economy minister, said Europe's "unhindered access to space is...

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Dan Goodin 2025-03-30 15:41:00 arstechnica.com A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy,...

Rocket Report: ULA confirms cause of booster anomaly; Crew-10 launch on tap

Rocket Report: Stoke is stoked; sovereignty is the buzzword in Europe

Stephen Clark 2025-03-28 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Welcome to Edition 7.37 of the Rocket Report! It's been interesting to watch how quickly...

Gran Turismo 7 expands its use of AI/ML-trained NPCs with good effect

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-03-28 11:01:00 arstechnica.com GT Sophy can now race at 19 tracks, up from the nine that were...

Corning’s new ceramic glass might save your next phone from disaster

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-28 12:02:00 arstechnica.com This is not Corning's first swing at adding ceramic to the mix—the company is also...

NASA to put Starliner’s thrusters through an extensive workout before next launch

Eric Berger 2025-03-28 14:47:00 arstechnica.com More than half a year after an empty Starliner spacecraft safely landed in a New...

Ex-FCC chairs from both parties say CBS news distortion investigation is bogus

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-28 14:58:00 arstechnica.com The Federal Communications Commission's news distortion investigation into CBS drew a public rebuke from a...