TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads

Scharon Harding 2024-12-11 16:04:00 arstechnica.com Advertising has become a focal point of TV software. We’re seeing companies that sell TV ...

Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features

Benj Edwards 2024-12-11 14:23:00 arstechnica.com On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, the next generation of its AI-model family, starting with ...

The latest in poker cheats: Tiny cameras that can see cards as they’re dealt

Ben Dowsett, wired.com 2024-12-11 09:57:00 arstechnica.com “I think it’s kind of surprising that a lot of these things don’t happen ...

Micron’s $6B CHIPS funding should have more strings attached, critics say

Ashley Belanger 2024-12-10 14:54:00 arstechnica.com Advocates: Micron needs to explain what a “good job” is But while Neuffer joined Harris' ...

Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2024-12-10 14:20:00 arstechnica.com Fear not—there's no one-click option, so no one should be in any danger of ...

In a not-so-subtle signal to regulators, Blue Origin says New Glenn is ready

Eric Berger 2024-12-10 09:02:00 arstechnica.com Blue Origin said Tuesday that the test payload for the first launch of its new ...

Itch.io platform briefly goes down due to “AI-driven” anti-phishing report

Kyle Orland 2024-12-09 12:25:00 arstechnica.com The itch.io domain was back up and running by 7 am Eastern, according to media ...

Google gets an error-corrected quantum bit to be stable for an hour

John Timmer 2024-12-09 13:25:00 arstechnica.com (In addition to a standard surface code, Google includes a few qubits that handle a ...

EV charging infrastructure isn’t just for road trippers

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2024-12-09 17:44:00 arstechnica.com Although there's been a whole lot of pessimism recently, electric vehicle sales continue to ...

Ten months after first tease, OpenAI launches Sora video generation publicly

Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland 2024-12-09 14:06:00 arstechnica.com A music video by Canadian art collective Vallée Duhamel made with Sora-generated ...

Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don’t make us offer unlimited soup

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-09 14:21:00 arstechnica.com "Commenters have clearly demonstrated how fees and overage charges, unclear information about data caps, and ...

Study: Warming has accelerated due to the Earth absorbing more sunlight

John Timmer 2024-12-05 15:15:00 arstechnica.com The concept of an atmospheric energy imbalance is pretty straightforward: We can measure both the ...

Lizards and snakes are 35 million years older than we thought

Elizabeth Rayne 2024-12-06 13:16:00 arstechnica.com Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs ...

2025 Lamborghini Urus SE first drive: The total taurean package

Tim Stevens 2024-12-07 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Unfortunately, while the car is quicker than the original model, the software isn't. The overall ...

Microsoft discontinues lackadaisically updated Surface Studio all-in-one desktop

Andrew Cunningham 2024-12-06 13:38:00 arstechnica.com The longest-lived Studio desktop was the Surface Studio 2, which was released in 2018 and ...

US to start nationwide testing for H5N1 flu virus in milk supply

John Timmer 2024-12-06 16:18:00 arstechnica.com So, the ultimate goal of the USDA is to eliminate cattle as a reservoir. When ...

After critics decry Orion heat shield decision, NASA reviewer says agency is correct

Eric Berger 2024-12-06 17:29:00 arstechnica.com "Every one of our conclusions, every one of our recommendations, was unanimously agreed to by ...

Google’s Genie 2 “world model” reveal leaves more questions than answers

Kyle Orland 2024-12-06 18:09:00 arstechnica.com As podcaster Ryan Zhao put it on Bluesky, "The design process has gone wrong when ...

TikTok’s two paths to avoid US ban: Beg SCOTUS or woo Trump

Ashley Belanger 2024-12-06 14:55:00 arstechnica.com "What the Act targets is the PRC’s ability to manipulate that content covertly," the ruling ...

Lower-cost sodium-ion batteries are finally having their moment

Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News 2024-12-06 10:07:00 arstechnica.com In contrast, a sodium-ion battery relies on an element—sodium—that you can find ...

Rocket Report: NASA delays Artemis again; SpinLaunch spins a little cash

Eric Berger 2024-12-06 07:00:00 arstechnica.com China debuts a new medium-lift rocket. China's new Long March 12 rocket made a successful ...

Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations

Scharon Harding 2024-12-05 15:50:00 arstechnica.com Broadcom will no longer take VMware's biggest 2,000 customers directly. Instead, it will work with ...

New drone has legs for landing gear, enabling efficient launches

Jacek Krywko 2024-12-05 18:34:00 arstechnica.com “What we meant by energy efficiency was calculating the energy input and energy output. The ...

NASA says Orion’s heat shield is good to go for Artemis II—but does it matter?

Stephen Clark 2024-12-05 20:03:00 arstechnica.com "We have since determined that while the capsule was dipping in and out of the ...

Judge rejects Boeing plea deal that was opposed by families of crash victims

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-05 16:51:00 arstechnica.com The compliance monitor is supposed to ensure that "Boeing implements a program designed to prevent ...