“Bouncing” winds damaged Houston skyscrapers in 2024

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-02-21 15:32:00 arstechnica.com “Bouncing” winds Damage sustained by the Chevron Building Auditorium during the derecho: a) damaged side ...

Asus’ new “Fragrance Mouse” is a wireless mouse that also smells

Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-21 15:42:00 arstechnica.com Aside from the customizable stink, the Fragrance Mouse is a reasonably full-featured functional PC accessory. ...

Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

Benj Edwards 2025-02-21 16:17:00 arstechnica.com Plans for 279 robots to start While the Protoclone is a twitching, dangling robotic prototype ...

This EV could reboot medium-duty trucking by not reinventing the wheel

Tim Stevens 2025-02-22 06:00:00 arstechnica.com It's not the most stylish cabin we've sat in. Credit: Tim Stevens In motion, though, ...

Researchers figure out how to get fresh lithium into batteries

John Timmer 2025-02-21 16:33:00 arstechnica.com In their testing, they use a couple of unusual electrode materials, such as a chromium ...

Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group

Dan Goodin 2025-02-21 16:47:00 arstechnica.com Researchers who have read the Russian-language texts said they exposed internal rifts in the secretive ...

German startup to attempt the first orbital launch from Western Europe

Stephen Clark 2025-02-21 18:38:00 arstechnica.com The nine-engine first stage for Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket lights up on the launch pad ...

Under new bill, Bigfoot could become California’s “official cryptid”

Nate Anderson 2025-02-21 17:01:00 arstechnica.com You might suspect that a one-line bill about Bigfoot that bears the number "666" is ...

Notorious crooks broke into a company network in 48 minutes. Here’s how.

Dan Goodin 2025-02-21 13:17:00 arstechnica.com In December, roughly a dozen employees inside a manufacturing company received a tsunami of phishing ...

More than 376,000 Tesla Model Y, Model 3s have faulty steering

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-02-21 10:10:00 arstechnica.com According to the NHTSA Part 573 Safety Recall Report, NHTSA and Tesla discussed the ...

Lamborghini catapults into the electrified supercar age with the Revuelto

Bradley Iger 2025-02-20 11:39:00 arstechnica.com Much more drivable Around town, the Revuelto is a quantum leap ahead of the Aventador ...

It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite

Mere weeks after Starship’s breakup, the vehicle may soon fly again

Eric Berger 2025-02-20 11:52:00 arstechnica.com A little over a month after SpaceX's large Starship launch ended in an explosion over ...

FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal

Jon Brodkin 2025-02-20 16:20:00 arstechnica.com The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it ...

See a garbage truck’s CNG cylinders explode after lithium-ion battery fire

Nate Anderson 2025-02-20 17:21:00 arstechnica.com When firefighters arrived on scene, they asked the driver to dump his load in the ...

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: An RTX 4080 for $749, at least in theory

Andrew Cunningham 2025-02-20 15:57:00 arstechnica.com Though we've tested and re-tested multiple cards with recent drivers in our updated testbed, we ...

Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it

Ryan Whitwam 2025-02-20 12:35:00 arstechnica.com As a result of its loss in that case, Google may be forced to open ...

Microsoft demonstrates working qubits based on exotic physics

John Timmer 2025-02-19 11:32:00 arstechnica.com Microsoft's first entry into quantum hardware comes in the form of Majorana 1, a processor ...

AI making up cases can get lawyers fired, scandalized law firm warns

Ashley Belanger 2025-02-19 13:06:00 arstechnica.com "As all lawyers know (or should know), it has been documented that AI sometimes invents ...

Microsoft shows progress toward real-time AI-generated game worlds

Kyle Orland 2025-02-19 13:40:00 arstechnica.com That demonstrator currently generates the resulting video based on pre-recorded inputs, at a rate much ...

“Truly a middle finger”: Humane bricking $700 AI Pins with limited refunds

Scharon Harding 2025-02-19 13:48:00 arstechnica.com After launching its AI Pin in April 2024 and reportedly seeking a buyout by May ...

Google’s new AI generates hypotheses for researchers

Ryan Whitwam 2025-02-19 14:20:00 arstechnica.com Over the past few years, Google has embarked on a quest to jam generative AI ...

Scientists unlock vital clue to strange quirk of static electricity

Jennifer Ouellette 2025-02-19 14:47:00 arstechnica.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbPSP5gQaZ0 Scientists can now explain the prevailing unpredictability of contact electrification, unveiling order from what ...

The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5: The best all-around EV just got better

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-02-19 06:00:00 arstechnica.com For the all-wheel-drive SE ($50,500) and SEL ($53,000) trims—probably the ones most people will ...

Our favorite EV goes Mad Max: The 2025 Ioniq 5 XRT

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2025-02-19 06:00:00 arstechnica.com This was as fun as it looks. Sam Abuelsamid This was as fun as ...

OpenAI board considers special voting powers to prevent Elon Musk takeover

Jon Brodkin 2025-02-18 12:31:00 arstechnica.com Poison pill another option OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit in 2015 and created an ...

Microsoft warns that the powerful XCSSET macOS malware is back with new tricks

Dan Goodin 2025-02-18 16:04:00 arstechnica.com “These enhanced features add to this malware family’s previously known capabilities, like targeting digital wallets, ...

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