Not all game releases will follow Nintendo’s pricing formula. The Switch 2 release of Street Fighter 6 Year 1-2 Fighters Edition retails for $60, and Square Enix’s remastered Bravely Default...
RFK Jr.‘s bloodbath at HHS: Blowback grows as losses become clearer
Last week, Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the Trump administration would hack off nearly a quarter of employees at the Department of Health and Human...
Genres are bustin’ out all over in Strange New Worlds S3 teaser
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns this summer with ten new episodes. Paramount+ has dropped a tantalizing one-minute teaser for the upcoming third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.,...
Male fruit flies drink more alcohol to get females to like them
Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are tremendously fond of fermented foodstuffs. Technically, it’s the yeast they crave, produced by yummy rotting fruit, but they can consume quite a lot of ethanol...
Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins
On the heels of releasing its most capable AI model yet, Google is making some changes to the Gemini team. A new report from Semafor reveals that longtime Googler Sissie...
A look at the Switch 2’s initial games, both familiar and what-the-heck
You can read a lot more about original Switch games’ compatibility on the Switch 2, “Editions,” and upgrade packs elsewhere in Ars’ Switch 2 launch coverage. AAA games of recent...
More Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation
Greetings from Costa Rica! The image fun continues. Fun is being had by all, now that OpenAI has dropped its rule about not mimicking existing art styles. Sam Altman (2:...
Honda will sell off historic racing parts, including bits of Senna’s V10
Honda’s motorsport division must be doing some spring cleaning. Today, the Honda Racing Corporation announced that it’s getting into the memorabilia business, offering up parts and even whole vehicles for...
First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant
A tokamak moves forward as two companies advance plans for stellarators. There are a remarkable number of commercial fusion power startups, considering that it’s a technology that’s built a reputation...
“Chaos” at state health agencies after US illegally axed grants, lawsuit says
Nearly half of US states sued the federal government and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today in a bid to halt the termination of $11...
Apple enables RCS messaging for Google Fi subscribers at last
With RCS, iPhone users can converse with non-Apple users without losing the enhanced features to which they’ve become accustomed in iMessage. That includes longer messages, HD media, typing indicators, and...
What we’re expecting from Nintendo’s Switch 2 announcement Wednesday
Implausible: Long-suffering Earthbound fans have been hoping for a new game in the series (or even an official localization of the Japan-exclusive Mother 3) for literal decades now. Personally, though,...
The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece
Williams’ success with APX led him to create several games for Synapse Software, including the beloved Alley Cat and the incomprehensible fantasy masterpiece Necromancer, before moving to the Amiga, where...
Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines
Satisfactory starts out as a game you play, then becomes a way you think. The only way I have been able to keep the ridiculous factory simulation from eating an...
Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows
As Distractify detailed, the video in question includes Noem telling people who live outside of the US that the US government will “hunt you down” if they enter the country...
FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm’s privacy promises for genetic data
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he’s keeping an eye on 23andMe’s bankruptcy proceeding and the company’s planned sale because of privacy concerns related to genetic testing data. 23andMe...
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
“Hey, this is a very precarious situation we’re in.” NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore receives a warm welcome at Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston from NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman...
Housing Roundup #11
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it...
With new Gen-4 model, Runway claims to have finally achieved consistency in AI videos
For example, it was used in producing the sequence in the film Everything Everywhere All At Once, where two rocks with googly eyes had a conversation on a cliff, and...
Apple updates all its operating systems, brings Apple Intelligence to Vision Pro
Apple dropped a big batch of medium-size software updates for nearly all of its products this afternoon. The iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, tvOS 18.4, and visionOS 2.4 updates...