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Ride-hailing will let Waymo focus on "near-term" commercial success.

It's Microsoft's first formal EU antitrust investigation in over a decade.

Nyobolt's battery tech is meant for consumer applications, as well as EVs.

Commercial space industry argues for extension to moratorium on regulations.

Cause of Guillain-Barre cases is under investigation, but gut microbe suspected.

It's still based on Chromium, but the user experience is quite different.

Study offers four-point rebuttal to 2022 claim that they're a kind of eco-Turing pattern.

"NASA is looking to go to Mars with this system."

Google's push for big screens will include a (hopefully dramatic) Play Store redesign.

Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated-and false positives abound.

The AirPods Pro "could have been easily made repairable with minimal effort."

From pens and school supplies to laptops, save on your back-to-school shopping list.

Company also expects to spend ever more money to support its ongoing AI efforts.

Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him "some merch."

"We're not really ready to talk about a launch opportunity yet."

The 24-year alliance started to fray with the arrest of Carlos Ghosn in 2019.

OpenAI brings the popular AI language model to an official Android client app.

Forget robotaxis, this is for precision and repeatability.

So, who do you tip?

The chargers will support both CCS1 and NACS, with deployment starting in 2024.

Samsung has a new fold-flat hinge, gives the Z flip a bigger screen.

Skeptics say Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI hope to avoid regulation.

A deep dive into the applications and functions that keep Ars humming along in the cloud.

Dinosaurs' hyper-efficient breathing system also evolved in two other lineages.

The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.

Apple opened up access to three ways to test apps on real hardware.

Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

Ocean stagnation, ecosystem collapses, and volcano eruptions all played a role.

Supreme Court is Musk's last option as judges uphold limits on his Tesla tweets.

With Play Services gone, it's only a matter of time before you can't log in.

"Zenbleed" bug affects all Zen 2-based Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC CPUs.

Deadly temperatures will become common unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut fast.

The much-loved affordable EV looked finished, but Chevy will build Bolt 2.0.

Vendors knew all about it, but most customers were clueless.

The second season has faster pacing, more linear storytelling, and bits of levity.

Borax is used in laundry detergent and is not safe to ingest.

"SpaceX could itself become a large commercial LEO destination."

"Every sample here has a story to tell."

Google plans to appeal.

Beta feature allows ChatGPT to remember key details with less prompt repetition.

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up.

Previous-generation macOS and iOS versions get new security updates, too.

Forget the headliners; let's talk about some less obvious stuff.

X logo looks like a Unicode symbol and the lower-case x from a Monotype font.

NHTSA wants Tesla to provide info on software and hardware for all US-made cars.

It's a powerful electric four-door GT on an all-new bonded aluminum platform.

"The US does not make or break a project like this," says OpenAI chief.

In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.

A new book tracks the human fascination with octopuses across centuries.