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Locked Phones > Report: Verizon’s goal is “immediate unlock for all payment methods really soon.” Following our report last weekhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Overview 2026 is shaping up to be a strong year for affordable electric vehicles. A new Nissan Leaf starts just under $30,000 excluding destination charge see...
“Deadly Serious” EPA sued for abandoning its mission to protect public health In a lawsuithttps://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/American-Publi...
Clear as Glass Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium. > Note: Right now, Silica hardware isn’t quite ready for commercialization. Credit: Micr...
Anti-vaccine agenda Agency insiders told reporters that a team of career scientists was ready to review the vaccine and held an hour‑long meeting with Prasad t...
'markdown Rage Against the Machine Learning > “With a simple prompt, you can generate 30 seconds of something like music.” Credit: Google
It’s that time of year—a new budget Pixel phone is about to hit virtual shelves. The Pixel 10a will be available on March 5, and pre‑orders go live today. The 9...
A spongy nanostructure The Northwestern team started looking at kingfisher feathers in tian‑tsui objects via postdoc Madeline Meier, who has a background in ch...
Reasons for worry In a recent interview with The Memory Core newsletterhttps://www.thememorycore.com/gamehub-feb-11-2026/, GameSir admitted that its primary mo...
We contacted CBS and its owner Paramount today and have not received a response. CBS denied prohibiting an interview with Talarico in a statement reported by Va...
Migrations are ongoing Broadcom introduced changes to VMware that are especially unfriendly to small- and medium-sized businesses SMBs, and Gartner previously...
> Connected car servers won’t be online indefinitely, and startups often go bust. > Fisker managed to deliver some Oceans before it sank. But are those owners b...
Background Earlier this month, Valve announcedhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/ram-shortage-delays-valves-steam-machine-desktop-and-steam-frame-headset/...
Warner Bros. seeks higher offer, new terms Paramount is offering $31 per share, but it wants to buy the entire Warner Bros. Discovery company, while Netflix’s...
Ford’s New Universal EV Platform – A $30 k Midsize Truck !Early design concepts for the midsize electric truck on Ford’s Universal Electric Vehicle Platformhtt...
Background X’s offices in Paris were raided by French and European investigators at the beginning of February as part of a wide‑ranging investigation into X’s...
Event Details Apple has announced an event for March 4, branded a “Special Apple Experience.” The event will kick off at 9 AM ET, and Ars will be on the ground...
Misstep or Marketing Tactic? Hollywood Backlash Puts Spotlight on ByteDance’s Sketchy Launch of Seedance 2.0 ByteDance says it is rushing to add safeguards tha...
Keeping the Heat > Sunlight can cause a molecule to change structure, and then release heat later. The system works a bit like existing solar water heaters, bu...
brrr so cold To test stability control, it helps to have a wide‑open space with very low grip. !A blue McLaren Artura drifting on a frozen lakehttps://cdn.arst...
Running solo After these astronauts departed on January 15, just a single NASA astronaut, Chris Williams, remained in orbit. He had reached space on board a Ru...
Findings The rocks studied were less likely to have been altered in a hydrothermal environment, where scalding hot water was temporarily released by melting ic...
Retraction On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did n...
It was the image that launched a cultural icon. In 1967, in the Northern California woods, a 7‑foot‑tall, ape‑like creature covered in black fur and walking upr...
Background John Honeycutt, chair of NASA’s Artemis II mission management team, said the decision to relax the safety limit between Artemis I and Artemis II was...
Overview This spring, a Southern California beach town will become the first city in the country where municipal parking‑enforcement vehicles use an AI system...
Verizon Unlocks Now Have a 35‑Day Waiting Period After Paying Off a Device Plan Online Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Verizon this week imposed a new roa...
Background Both statements verified that the integration never launched and that no Ring customers’ videos were ever sent to Flock. Ring’s response Ring did no...
In short, the first Android 17 beta is chock‑full of things that may interest developers and modders, but there’s little in the way of user‑facing changes right...
The Ariane 64 flew with an extended payload shroud to fit all 32 Amazon Leo satellites. Combined, the payload totaled around 20 metric tons ≈ 44 000 lb, accordi...
But 1,000 tokens per second is actually modest by Cerebras standards. The company has measuredhttps://www.cerebras.ai/blog/cerebras-inference-3x-faster 2,100 to...
Not a gem Vulcan’s Blue Origin‑made BE‑4 engines appear to have saved the rocket from failure Image: Fiery plume near the bottom of one of the Vulcan rocket's...
'Tim Apple Gets a Stern Letter
Industry context AI-driven memory and storage price hikeshttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/high-ram-prices-mean-record-setting-profits-for-samsung-and-ot...
Background When Apple’s Vision Pro mixed‑reality headset launched in February 2024, users were frustrated by the lack of a proper YouTube app—a significant dis...
Adventures in copy protection Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost. Image: Google Gemini logo Credit: Google...
Restoration > Wiped out in its native range by invasive pathogens, the trees may make a comeback. Very few people alive today have seen the Appalachian forests...
Elephant trunk whiskers and sensory intelligence An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous organ: flexible enough to bend and stretch while foraging, yet stiff enough...
Years before the Chevrolet Bolt or Tesla Model 3, the Nissan Leaf was a good‑faith attempt by a major automaker to bring electric vehicles to the mass market. E...
Findings US businesses and consumers paid nearly 90 % of the cost of Donald Trump’s tariffs in the first 11 months of 2025, according to research from the New...
Pad 40 has been the primary Falcon 9 launch site for most of the rocket’s history, while Pad 39A provided a location for crew launches and an augmentation to su...
Executive Order Overview The executive order directs the Secretary of War, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy, to “seek to procure power from the Uni...
Cartel drones a serious threat That is not to make light of drone incursions. This is a real issue along the US border with Mexico, where cartels increasingly...
Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,0...
Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering computer magazine Bytehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte...
A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby A3 test stand after a grass fire broke...
On Wednesday, former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig publishedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/opinion/openai-ads-chatgpt.html a guest essay in The New York Time...
But for app developers, IT shops, and anyone else who needs to test things against multiple Windows versions at once, it does create an odd period of overlap wh...
