Someone made a CAPTCHA where you play Doom on Nightmare difficulty

Samuel Axon 2025-01-02 15:05:00 arstechnica.com It's a WebAssembly application, but it was made via a human language, prompt-driven web development ...

Using 2D materials on chips without destroying the wiring

Jacek Krywko 2025-01-02 11:05:00 arstechnica.com Getting the temperature of TMDs growth down enough to make large-scale manufacturing feasible could be ...

Manta rays inspire faster swimming robots and better water filters

Elizabeth Rayne 2024-12-31 06:50:00 arstechnica.com This robot can also dive and come back to the surface. Faster flapping results in ...

Trump told SCOTUS he plans to make a deal to save TikTok

Ashley Belanger 2024-12-30 11:31:00 arstechnica.com Several members of Congress— Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Representative ...

Evolution journal editors resign en masse

Jennifer Ouellette 2024-12-30 13:45:00 arstechnica.com Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier's Journal ...

Power company hid illegal crypto mine that may have caused outages

Ashley Belanger 2024-12-30 13:55:00 arstechnica.com But Russia presumably gets no taxes on illegal crypto mining, and power outages can be ...

You can love or hate AI, but it’s killed crappy 8GB versions of pricey PCs and Macs

Andrew Cunningham 2024-12-30 07:35:00 arstechnica.com I'd describe myself as a skeptic of the generative AI revolution—I think the technology as ...

When does your brain think something is worth the wait?

Elizabeth Rayne 2024-12-30 08:15:00 arstechnica.com Whether it’s braving the long line at a trendy new restaurant or hanging on just ...

After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly

Eric Berger 2024-12-27 21:20:00 arstechnica.com After a long day of stops and starts that stretched well into the evening, and ...

OpenAI defends for-profit shift as critical to sustain humanitarian mission

Ashley Belanger 2024-12-27 11:58:00 arstechnica.com OpenAI has finally shared details about its plans to shake up its core business by ...

Magnetic shape-shifting surface can move stuff without grasping it

Jacek Krywko 2024-12-27 08:45:00 arstechnica.com A kirigami design where the cuts’ length-to-width ratio was six was way more responsive to ...

Craving carbs? Blame an ancient gene.

Elizabeth Rayne 2024-12-27 07:25:00 arstechnica.com “This observation is concordant with the recent evidence of Neanderthal starch consumption, and perhaps the ...

The 20 most-read stories of 2024 on Ars Technica

Eric Bangeman 2024-12-25 07:00:00 arstechnica.com The Raspberry Pi 5 inside its official case. Credit: Andrew Cunningham The Raspberry Pi 5 ...

How might NASA change under Trump? Here’s what is being discussed

Eric Berger 2024-12-23 10:09:00 arstechnica.com Although the details remain in flux, the transition team reviewing NASA and its activities has ...

$2,100 mechanical keyboard has 800 holes, NYC skyscraper looks

Scharon Harding 2024-12-23 13:09:00 arstechnica.com What's interesting about the typing feel of this keyboard is the use of low-profile keycaps ...

The quest to save the world’s largest CRT TV from destruction

Kyle Orland 2024-12-23 14:48:00 arstechnica.com At this point, any serious retro gamer knows that a bulky cathode ray tube (CRT) ...

Honda and Nissan plan to merge in 2026

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2024-12-23 10:18:00 arstechnica.com In 2019, then-head of the alliance Carlos Ghosn was arrested by Japanese police on ...

Film Technica: Our favorite movies of 2024

Jennifer Ouellette 2024-12-23 07:00:00 arstechnica.com Editor's note: Warning: Although we’ve done our best to avoid spoiling anything too major, please ...

Ars Technica’s top 20 video games of 2024

Kyle Orland 2024-12-22 07:00:00 arstechnica.com -Kevin Purdy Sixty Four Oleg Danilov; Windows, Mac I try not to think about, or ...

Man versus autonomous car race ends before it begins

Roberto Baldwin 2024-12-22 07:05:00 arstechnica.com The “race” On the Saturday of the race weekend, a demonstration of two A2RL vehicles ...

Why AI language models choke on too much text

Timothy B. Lee 2024-12-20 08:00:00 arstechnica.com This means that the total computing power required for attention grows quadratically with the ...

VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

Matt Burgess, wired.com 2024-12-20 10:01:00 arstechnica.com For proxy networks, Hinderer says, one end of the spectrum is where networks could ...

Automakers excoriated by Senators for fighting right-to-repair

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2024-12-20 11:09:00 arstechnica.com Yesterday, US Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Joshua Hawley (R-MO) sent ...

Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-20 13:46:00 arstechnica.com Wright's lawsuit names a defendant he calls "BTC Core," which apparently doesn't exist. Wright alleges ...