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The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ first drive: 460 miles on a single charge
The Escalade embodies the American luxury car ideal, and now it's gone electric.
Old Bolt, new tricks: Making an EV into a backup power station with an inverter
Using a custom kit to make a budget EV offer some emergency power.
Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets
tj-actions/changed-files corrupted to run credential-stealing memory scraper.
Behind the scenes of The Electric State
Production designer Dennis Gassner: "I have one fallback position: when in doubt, make it beautiful."
A “biohybrid” robotic hand built using real human muscle cells
A real bit of cyborg hardware highlights the technology's current limitations.
The Wheel of Time is back for season three, and so are our weekly recaps
Two WoT book readers dive back into Amazon's increasingly divergent adaptation.
For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations.
Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem
Cheap, unreliable ceramic APU resonators lead to "constant, pervasive, unavoidable" issues.
Crew-10 launches, finally clearing the way for Butch and Suni to fly home
Crew 9 could return as early as next Wednesday.
2025 iPad Air hands-on: Why mess with a good thing?
Apple's annual refresh is a minor one, but not much needed to change anyway.
US measles cases reach 5-year high; 15 states report cases, Texas outbreak grows
Since 2000, when measles was eliminated from US, only three years had higher cases.
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives
Anthropic trains AI to hide motives, but different "personas" betray their secrets.
End of Life: Gemini will completely replace Google Assistant later this year
Google promises more details on the move to Gemini in the coming months.
I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks
Stream your DRM-free audiobooks to devices yourselves, without the cloud's chains.
RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats
Lack of encryption was one SMS shortcoming that RCS was created to solve.
Small charges in water spray can trigger the formation of key biochemicals
Charges cause water droplets in an early-Earth atmosphere to build up pre-life chemicals.
The same day Trump bought a Tesla, automaker moved to disrupt trade war
Tesla hopes to slow down Trump's tit-for-tat tariffs amid financial woes.
To avoid the Panama Canal, Relativity Space may move some operations to Texas
"We are exploring options to expand our manufacturing capabilities."
Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sell
Some owners would rather sell their car than be associated with Tesla now.
Google agrees with OpenAI that copyright has no place in AI development
Google says regulators are too worried about risk.
Scoop: Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell
The curious case of the missing Kickstarter spoons.
New Reddit controls let you block your most-hated advertisers for a year
Reddit will likely continue increasing the amount of ads users see.
Rocket Report: ULA confirms cause of booster anomaly; Crew-10 launch on tap
The head of Poland's space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory.
Outbreak turns 30
Ars chats with epidemiologist Tara Smith about the film's scientific accuracy and impact over 3 decades.
Apple’s $349 iPad 11 is missing a lot, but it’s still all the iPad most people need
Other iPads are nicer and faster, but I end up using all of them the same way.
UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos
Schools across the country are cutting back as US research takes "severe blow."
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was minus 280° F
"You lose it, and then what do you do? You don't give up. You go back in."
What happens when DEI becomes DOA in the aerospace industry?
"Ten years ago this was embraced by everyone, and seen as a win-win for all."
Google has a fix for your broken Chromecast V2 unless you factory reset
Just keep your Chromecast plugged in, and it should come back to life.
Meta plans to test and tinker with X’s community notes algorithm
X algorithm will link community notes across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
In one dog breed, selection for utility may have selected for obesity
Selecting trainable dogs may have gotten us dogs that would do anything for a treat.
Google’s Gemini AI can now see your search history
Gemini can do more with your data if you let it.
OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use
National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.
Google is bringing every Android game to Windows in big gaming update
Google has big plans for gaming in 2025.
AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
Cursor AI tells user, "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work."
Microsoft’s new AI “Copilot for Gaming” struggles to justify its existence
We're still a ways off from the conversational AI "partner" teased last year.
Epic Games is addressing one of Windows-on-Arm’s last big app compatibility gaps
Drivers and kernel-level software can't be translated automatically by Windows.
Trump’s EPA clearly shows it doesn’t understand the assignment
31 separate actions roll back restrictions on air and water pollution.
The EPA is scrapping fuel economy regs, claiming it will bring back US jobs
EPA Administrator Zeldin says it is necessary "to protect consumer choice."
Civilization VII, one month later: The community and developers chime in
Executive Producer Dennis Shirk talks with Ars about the state of the game.
Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
"Probably the craziest thing I've said so far," he admitted during an interview.
What is space war-fighting? The Space Force’s top general has some thoughts.
Controlling space means "employing kinetic and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities."
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
"SPHEREx is going to produce an enormous three-dimensional map of the entire night sky."
Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels
There are many risks from drinking, but high cholesterol doesn't seem to be one.
Sonos’ streaming box is reportedly canceled. Good riddance.
Opinion: The long-rumored Sonos streaming box wasn't a good idea anyway.
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off
Tan will start as CEO on March 18, taking over from interim co-CEOs.
Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play
Google's Firebase platform also hosted configuration settings used by the apps.
Cockpit voice recorder survived fiery Philly crash—but stopped taping years ago
Heroic work to recover and repair a CVR.
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