Tech In Plain Sight: Projection Clocks
You wake up in the middle of the night. Is it time to get up? Well, you can look at the nightstand clock. Unless your partner...
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New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”
Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years...
Read moreThe creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app that shares multiple predictions
Acme Weather is currently only available for iOS. | Image: Acme Weather Corporation After selling their popular weather app to Apple in March 2020, where some...
Read moreThe human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In January, Nvidia’s...
Read moreThe 2026 Mazda CX-5, driven: It got bigger; plus, radical tech upgrade
Mazda provided flights from Washington, DC, to San Diego and accommodation so Ars could drive the CX-5. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ENCINITAS, Calif.—Its...
Read moreAWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026)
Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way...
Read moreWouter Verhelst: On Free Software, Free Hardware, and the firmware in between
When the Free Software movement started in the 1980s, most of the world had just made a transition from free university-written software to non-free, proprietary, company-written...
Read moreNew Blog Post: Some Silly Z3 Scripts I Wrote
Now that I’m not spending all my time on Logic for Programmers, I have time to update my website again! So here’s the first blog post...
Read moreFirefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches
Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148...
Read moreThe US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year
Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.
Read moreLamborghini is the Latest Automaker to Pull the Plug on Luxury EVs
The CEO of the supercar company says demand for high-end full electric cars is “almost zero.” Could this mean Ferrari’s Luce will be dead on arrival?
Read moreNuclear Waste Remediation by Proton Beam
One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. However, researchers at...
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