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SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey
Experiments with robotic spiders and prey suggest spiders can detect differences in natural web frequencies.
Eight years later, new but familiar-looking PebbleOS watches appear
Shipping in July and December, with far more battery life and newer chips.
DOGE cuts to USDA may open door to invasive species, higher food prices
Food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog handlers remain out of work as food spoils.
New EV battery boasts 5-min charge time, adding 250 miles of range
The new batteries can charge at 10C, with fast chargers peaking at 1,000 kW.
Even the worst mass extinction had its oases
Plants thrived in present-day China throughout the End-Permian extinction.
People in this career are better at seeing through opticalillusions
Becoming an expert in medical image analysis may make you better at spotting illusions.
Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking.
New experimental AI allows no-skill photo editing, including removing watermarks. But it's not perfect.
Here’s the secret to how Firefly was able to nail its first lunar landing
Darkness fell over Mare Crisium, ending a daily dose of dazzling images from the Moon.
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
"Kennedy's war on vaccines has started," one researcher said.
Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics
A bacterial energy storage system is modified to make polymers.
“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.
Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US
Director of $42 billion broadband fund pushed out, says program is being ruined.
Sobering revenue stats of 70K mobile apps show why devs beg for subscriptions
Most apps fail to reach $1,000/month revenue within two years.
Windows 11 updates are accidentally getting rid of Copilot, at least for now
Copilot can be reinstalled from the Microsoft Store if it's something you want.
UK online safety law Musk hates kicks in today, and so far, Trump can’t stop it
UK Online Safety Act requires prompt content removals Musk's X has resisted.
Why wait? Google is already dismantling Assistant as it switches to Gemini.
Assistant is becoming less helpful as Google "prioritizes" experiences.
A tough race for the rookies as F1 starts 2025 in Australia
F1 teams show us who's fast and who's not at the start of the 2025 season.
Physicists unlock another clue to brewing the perfect espresso
"Channeling" during brewing process can lead to non-uniform filtration and lower extraction yield.
Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara
Goal is to compete with Starlink, connecting remote areas to the Internet.
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.
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