An AI program enters the real world in TRON: Ares. It’s difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney’s 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film...

Road trips with just two people always have their awkward silences. In Dustland Delivery, my character, a sharpshooter, has tried to break the ice with the blacksmith he hired a few...

Anti-extinction vs. de-extinction Ecosystems are inconveniently complex, and elephants won’t make good surrogates. Are we ready for mammoths when we can’t handle existing human-pachyderm conflicts? Credit: chuchart duangdaw The start-up...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin. We have known what...

Further observation of the nest revealed that the female hummingbird had added to its hatchling’s caterpillar camouflage by lining the nest with hairy-looking material from the seeds of balsa trees....

At lower speeds, I found the Silverado EV a little more cumbersome. As noted, it’s a very long vehicle, and you need the more expensive RST version if you want...

Nintendo Switch 2 preorders, which were due to begin on April 9, are being delayed indefinitely amid the financial uncertainty surrounding Donald Trump’s recent announcement of massive tariffs on most...

Outside of several mentions in the Rocket Report newsletter dating back to 2018, Ars Technica has not devoted too much attention to covering a novel California space company named SpinLaunch....

For decades, environmental and farm groups pushed Congress, the USDA and farmers to adopt new conservation programs, but progress came in incremental steps. With each Farm Bill, some lawmakers threaten...

Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s Wheel of Time books, and they previously brought that knowledge to bear as...

The military’s stable of certified rockets will include Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Vulcan, and New Glenn. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off on June 25, 2024, with a GOES...

AI image generator Midjourney released its first new model in quite some time today; dubbed V7, it’s a ground-up rework that is available in alpha to users now. There are...

“Taken as true, these facts give rise to a plausible inference that defendants at a minimum had reason to investigate and uncover end-user infringement,” Stein wrote. To Stein, the fact...

This morning’s announcement that Nintendo is delaying US preorders for the Switch 2 immediately increased the salience of President Trump’s proposed wide-reaching import tariffs for millions of American Nintendo fans....

A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has...

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the...

Google’s Tulsee Doshi talks vibes and efficiency in Gemini 2.5 Pro. Google was caught flat-footed by the sudden skyrocketing interest in generative AI despite its role in developing the underlying...

European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a New York Times report yesterday. The European Commission determined last...

Here’s how one teen plans to fix schools failing kids affected by nudify apps. When Francesca Mani was 14 years old, boys at her New Jersey high school used nudify...

Placko called the new policy “not just a policy change” but “a seismic shift.” Rob Daviau, who helps run Restoration Games and designed hit games like Pandemic Legacy, has been...