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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access "to a payroll system that processes s…

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across …

2024 was "a year of growth," according to fire-suppression company Fire Rover , but that's not an entirel…

Big brands are allocating small amounts of their advertising budget to Elon Musk’s X, seeking to avoid being seen as bo…

Late last week, President Donald Trump decided to upend the automotive industry by levying a new 25 percent import tari…

QLED TV manufacturers have dug themselves into a hole. After years of companies promising that their quantum dot light…

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersec…

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red plane…

Google acquired Nest in 2014 for a whopping $3.4 billion but seems increasingly uninterested in making smart home hardw…

More than half a year after an empty Starliner spacecraft safely landed in a New Mexico desert, NASA and Boeing still h…

Two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission who were fired by President Trump sued him today, saying their …

It's no secret that "driving while black" is a real phenomenon. Study after study has shown that minority…

After a long and gloomy winter, many people are looking forward to some summer travel. Google has some new tools to hel…

As previously rumored, Discord, a popular communications platform, is working with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase to…

An eruption of measles is spreading quickly in Kansas, with cases doubling in a week and spreading to three new countie…

The US Space Force on Wednesday announced that it has certified United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket to conduct n…

President Trump and administration officials claimed this week that no classified information about war plans was share…

People are often quite selective about the information they'll accept, seeking out sources that will confirm their …

On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for AlexNet , the convoluti…

It is an immutable law of nature that when you receive a corporate email with a subject line like "Changes coming …

A prominent journalist knew the US military would start bombing Houthi targets in Yemen two hours before it happened o…

Cadillac provided flights from Los Angeles to San Fransisco and accommodation so Ars could drive the Optiq. Ars does no…

At the beginning of November 2024, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected Amazon’s request to buy …

Over the course of his long career, magician and endurance performer David Blaine has taken on all kinds of death-defy…

Seven years ago, three classmates at the Technical University of Munich believed their student engineering project migh…

According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to r…

For many of us, memories of our childhood have become a bit hazy, if not vanishing entirely. But nobody really remember…

On Thursday, Anthropic introduced web search capabilities for its AI assistant Claude, enabling the assistant to acces…

A federal judge yesterday issued a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE's access to Social Security Administra…

Apple was slower than most Big Tech firms to jump on the generative AI hype train, but it finally got there with the re…

The parents of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who died of measles in Texas last month sat down for an interview with …

Human speech arises courtesy of some significant neural horsepower. Different areas of the brain are involved in determ…

Elon Musk and President Trump are fighting a court order to turn over information about DOGE, the US Department of Gove…

Plex is a bit hard to explain these days. Even if you don't know its roots as an outgrowth of a Mac port of the Xbo…

Sheriff John Montgomery of Baxter County, Arkansas, isn't going to take it anymore—if by "it" you mean &q…

On the heels of its release of new Gemini models last week, Google has announced a pair of new features for its flags…

Commissioner Geoffrey Starks will resign from the Federal Communications Commission this spring, he announced today. S…

Fans of Portal 2 have been waiting nearly 14 years now for another official entry in the beloved action-puzzle series…

Plastics are great, except when it comes to making or disposing of them. Production generally requires the use of chemi…

Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS are already subject to video advertisements on the home screen…

Cadillac provided flights from Los Angeles to San Fransisco and accommodation so Ars could drive the Escalade IQ. Ars d…

Back when EV enthusiasm was higher, there were fits and starts of vehicle-to-home concepts and products. If EVs and t…

Open-source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with cr…

Pour one out for Google Assistant, the sometimes helpful but often frustrating digital assistant Google launched in 201…

We’re an audiobook family at House Hutchinson, and at any given moment my wife or I are probably listening to one while…

One of the best mostly invisible updates in iOS 18 was Apple's decision to finally implement the Rich Communication…

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 bil…

The Athena spacecraft was not exactly flying blind as it approached the lunar surface one week ago. The software on bo…

Last month a nonprofit that recognizes exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities with space and aviation in…

Meta plans to test out X's algorithm for Community Notes to crowdsource fact-checks that will appear across Faceboo…

On Wednesday, a ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee accused the Environmental Protectio…

Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they'll likely be in a few years. Even wit…

On Wednesday, Google DeepMind announced two new AI models designed to control robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robot…

The Federal Trade Commission is moving to push back a trial set to determine if Amazon tricked customers into signing u…

A humpback whale urinating near Hawaii. Credit: Lars Bejder/NOAA A humpback whale urinating near Hawaii. Credit: L…

Two people in Oklahoma have likely contracted measles infections linked to a mushrooming outbreak that began in West Te…

The long-running rumors and hints that Microsoft is planning to enter the portable gaming market accelerated forward…

A document that was first issued in 2009 would seem an unlikely candidate for making news in 2025. Yet the past few wee…