Eric Berger 2022-07-06 17:13:47 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Virgin Spaceship Unity and Virgin Mothership Eve take to the skies on their first captive carry flight on September 8, 2016.Virgin Galactic Nearly a full year has passed since Virgin Galactic last…
Ron Amadeo 2022-07-06 13:19:35 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Glance's ad copy promises "authentic engagement" with its lock screen billboard. Glance Android smartphones can be a rough market, and to squeeze as much profit out of a phone as possible, carriers…
Samuel Axon 2022-07-05 13:35:07 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The Oculus Quest 2. A recent media release from market research firm IDC predicts that Meta (the parent company of Facebook) may not be able to compete in the mixed-reality business in…
Ashley Belanger 2022-07-05 14:40:58 arstechnica.com Imagine an online world where what users want matters, and interoperability reigns. Friends could choose whichever messaging app they like and seamlessly chat cross-app. Any pre-installed app could be deleted on any device. Businesses…
Scharon Harding 2022-07-05 13:07:49 arstechnica.com The world's first laptop to use the RISC-V open source instruction set architecture (ISA) will reportedly start shipping in September. The Roma laptop is available for preorder on Xcalibyte's website, but the site merely takes…
Undark Magazine 2022-07-04 07:00:42 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The California condor is a New World vulture, the largest North American land bird. This condor became extinct in the wild in 1987, but the species has been reintroduced in California and…
Ars Contributors 2022-07-04 07:37:08 arstechnica.com Julius Csotonyi A group of researchers has recently made an astounding discovery. Using an innovative imaging technique, an international team of scientists has uncovered remarkable details of a pterosaur's soft tissue. Despite an age…
Jon Brodkin 2022-07-01 13:32:30 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish.Starlink SpaceX has secured US approval to provide Starlink satellite Internet service on moving vehicles, ships, and airplanes. In an order released Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX's…
Eric Berger 2022-07-01 11:34:16 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Boeing's Orbital Flight Test-2 mission launches on May 19, 2022.Trevor Mahlmann Five weeks have passed since Boeing's Starliner spacecraft returned from a largely successful test flight to the International Space Station, and…
Andrew Cunningham 2022-07-01 07:30:51 arstechnica.com Aurich Lawson When macOS Ventura was announced earlier this month, its system requirements were considerably stricter than those for macOS Monterey, which was released just eight months ago as of this writing. Ventura requires…
Ron Amadeo 2022-06-30 12:28:36 arstechnica.com iFixit The iFixit and Google partnership that was announced in April is now live. iFixit says that genuine parts for Google smartphones are now for sale in "the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and European…
Andrew Cunningham 2022-06-30 12:37:05 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The Raspberry Pi Pico W adds Wi-Fi to the $4 Pico board for an additional $2. Raspberry Pi Foundation The Raspberry Pi Zero series is the smallest version of the popular single-board…
John Timmer 2022-06-30 19:00:54 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A man walks up the steps of the US Supreme Court.Mark Wilson/Getty Images Thursday's Supreme Court decision regarding the use of the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power…
Jon Brodkin 2022-06-30 16:19:46 arstechnica.com Getty Images | grinvalds The Federal Communications Commission today said it closed a robocall loophole by requiring small phone companies to implement the caller ID authentication technology known as STIR and SHAKEN. Large voice…
Scharon Harding 2022-06-30 13:38:21 arstechnica.com Samuel Axon Apple made its Community+ Program common knowledge this week. Similar to other tech companies like Dell, HP, and Microsoft, Apple has been rewarding the knowledgeable volunteers who frequently contribute to its online support community. As…
John Timmer 2022-06-30 10:50:09 arstechnica.com The sulfer-coal-burning John E. Amos Power Plant in West Virginia. On Thursday, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case that will severely hamper the ability of the US to limit its…
Kyle Orland 2022-06-29 11:47:12 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Spellbreak battles are full of splashy elemental explosions and floaty acrobatic dodges. Blizzard Entertainment has acquired Boston-based Proletariat, the studio behind the magic-heavy battle royale game Spellbreak. Spellbreak will shut down by…
Corey Gaskin 2022-06-29 15:44:43 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Belkin's new 3-in-1 MagSafe charging stand is identical to its predecessor, pictured above, but true change occurs within.Corey Gaskin / Ars Technica Belkin just launched its second 3-in-1 device capable of fast-charging…
Jon Brodkin 2022-06-29 16:00:21 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish.Starlink SpaceX is asking Starlink customers to help the company win a regulatory battle against Dish Network. In an email urging users to contact the Federal Communications Commission and…
John Timmer 2022-06-29 19:43:37 arstechnica.com Enlarge / An Eastern Gray Wolf is a mix of Siberian ancestry and coyote DNA. Man's best friend was the first of many animals humans have domesticated. But there was no clear before-and-after moment…
WIRED 2022-06-29 16:43:45 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Zeng Yuqun, chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL), poses for a photograph in Ningde, Fujian province, China, on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The headquarters of battery giant CATL tower over the coastal…
Scharon Harding 2022-06-29 13:37:23 arstechnica.com Brazil is the latest country to consider making USB-C charging a requirement for smartphones. On Tuesday, Anatel, Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency, announced a public consultation for a proposal to make USB-C charging a requirement for…
Ron Amadeo 2022-06-28 16:35:40 arstechnica.com Enlarge / HTC's metaverse phone. HTC HTC is somehow still making smartphones. The latest from the company is the HTC Desire 22 Pro, a 399 British pound (~$486) mid-ranger that represents the company's first smartphone…
Andrew Cunningham 2022-06-28 11:19:09 arstechnica.com Enlarge / MNT's "Pocket Reform" is the same open hardware in a smaller enclosure. MNT A few months ago, we reviewed the MNT Reform, which attempts to bring the dream of entirely open source hardware…
Eric Berger 2022-06-27 10:26:12 arstechnica.com Enlarge / NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a closeup taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover.NASA/JPL-Caltech This week, the US House of Representatives will release a…
The Conversation 2022-06-27 13:07:31 arstechnica.com Getty Images When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these…
Andrew Cunningham 2022-06-27 13:08:45 arstechnica.com Enlarge / This is the 2022 13-inch MacBook Pro.Samuel Axon The use of the M2 chip is the new 13-inch MacBook Pro's biggest change compared to the M1 version Apple launched in 2020, but…
John Timmer 2022-06-27 17:22:46 arstechnica.com Last week, Tesla announced a program for California-based owners of its home battery products. Sign up with the company, and you'd become part of what the company calls a "virtual power plant." You would…
Ron Amadeo 2022-06-27 15:27:52 arstechnica.com Google It sounds like Google is finally getting ready to move on from Google Hangouts, the company's most successful messaging app to date. A new blog post from the company is finally giving consumer…
Scharon Harding 2022-06-27 12:18:00 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Apple's discontinued HomePod smart speaker.Jeff Dunn After officially killing off the HomePod last year, Apple will soon release a new version of the smart speaker, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported in a Sunday newsletter. The…
Eric Berger 2022-06-24 09:49:09 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy rocket are seen in February, 2022, during fit checks on the orbital launch tower.Trevor Mahlmann It has been a long time since SpaceX launched a…
John Timmer 2022-06-24 15:27:43 arstechnica.com Enlarge / One of two solar arrays on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is successfully deployed in JPL’s storied High Bay 2 clean room. The twin arrays will power the spacecraft and its science instruments during…
Samuel Axon 2022-06-24 17:04:16 arstechnica.com Enlarge / An early augmented reality demo by Apple, using a smartphone instead of a headset. Tech industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has offered the most specific prediction about a release date for an Apple…