Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data

Benj Edwards 2025-03-28 18:11:00 arstechnica.com Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness...

Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-28 19:59:00 arstechnica.com Elon Musk today said he has merged X and xAI in a deal that values...

Google discontinues Nest Protect smoke alarm and Nest x Yale lock

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-28 15:29:00 arstechnica.com Google acquired Nest in 2014 for a whopping $3.4 billion but seems increasingly uninterested in...

Google solves its mysterious Pixel problem, announces 9a launch date

Ryan Whitwam 2025-03-28 12:50:00 arstechnica.com Google revealed the Pixel 9a last week, but its release plans were put on hold...

Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini

Dan Goodin 2025-03-28 07:00:00 arstechnica.com The resulting dataset, which reflected a distribution of attack categories similar to the complete dataset,...

Pillars of Eternity is getting turn-based combat, all but demanding replays

Kevin Purdy 2025-03-27 13:26:00 arstechnica.com More than just rolling for initiative Obsidian added a turn-based mode to Pillars of Eternity II:...

Elon Musk and Trump win fight to keep DOGE’s work secret

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-27 13:43:00 arstechnica.com Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) don't have to turn over information...

Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

John Timmer 2025-03-27 16:22:00 arstechnica.com Then, the researchers got data on all the speeding tickets issued in Florida and identified...

Trump can’t fire us, FTC Democrats tell court after being ejected from office

Jon Brodkin 2025-03-27 16:55:00 arstechnica.com Two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission who were fired by President Trump sued...

Discord is planning an IPO this year, and big changes could be on the horizon

Samuel Axon 2025-03-27 14:22:00 arstechnica.com The product has evolved into something akin to Slack, but for personal use. It's used...

Nintendo’s new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained

Kyle Orland 2025-03-27 11:58:00 arstechnica.com Switch players who buy their games on physical cards are used to being able to...

After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

Timothy B. Lee 2025-03-27 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Using human crash data, Waymo estimated that human drivers on the same roads would...

Anti-diversity lawsuits likely to hurt the scientific community, say scholars

Claudia López Lloreda, Undark Magazine 2025-03-26 09:58:00 arstechnica.com The Scholars Program has provided funding for around 3,500 students to support...

After a spacecraft was damaged en route to launch, NASA says it won’t launch

Eric Berger 2025-03-26 17:34:00 arstechnica.com Three weeks ago, NASA revealed that a shipping container protecting a Cygnus spacecraft sustained "damage"...

Broadcom’s VMware says Siemens pirated “thousands” of copies of its software

Scharon Harding 2025-03-26 10:54:00 arstechnica.com VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims...

Also, a Rivian EV spinoff, wants us to “move beyond cars”

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-03-26 12:51:00 arstechnica.com There's a new "exciting, small EV" on the way, to be launched early next...

ESA finally has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?

Stephen Clark 2025-03-25 23:58:00 arstechnica.com Open your checkbook, please ESA's governance structure isn't favorable for taking quick action. On one...

Netflix expands HDR support with HDR10+

Scharon Harding 2025-03-25 12:17:00 arstechnica.com Dolby Vision came out in 2014, three years before HDR10+. The HDR10+ rival also offers...

Napster to become a music-marketing metaverse firm after $207M acquisition

Scharon Harding 2025-03-25 16:00:00 arstechnica.com Infinite Reality, a media, ecommerce, and marketing company focused on 3D and AI-powered experiences, has...

We’ve outsourced our confirmation biases to search engines

John Timmer 2025-03-25 15:41:00 arstechnica.com So, the researchers decided to see if they could upend it. Keeping it general The...

Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

Matt Burgess, wired.com 2025-03-25 09:12:00 arstechnica.com Steffen Schmidt, the CEO of Medicusdata, a company that provides text-to-speech services to doctors...