Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the dad rock of video games, and I love it
Assassin’s Creed titles are cozy games for me. There’s no more relaxing place to go after a difficult day: historical outdoor museum tours plus dopamine
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Cupra is all about affordable cars, funky styling, electrified performance
Cupra provided flights from Washington to Miami and accommodation so Ars could drive its cars and attend the Miami ePrix. Ars does not accept paid
Nintendo raises planned Switch 2 accessory prices amid tariff “uncertainty”
Nintendo announced Friday morning that a number of accessories for the Switch 2 “will experience price adjustments from those announced on April 2 due to
Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise
Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’
Trump’s tariffs trigger price hikes at large online retailers
Popular online shopping meccas Temu and Shein have finally broken their silence, warning of potential price hikes starting next week due to Tweety McTreason’s tariffs.
‘Black Mirror’ Showed Us a Future. Some of It Is Here Now.
The long-running tech drama always felt as if it took place in a dystopian near future. How much of that future has come to pass?
Rover finds hints of an ancient Martian carbon cycle
Mars has not always been a seemingly lifeless red desert. We have evidence that billions of years ago it had a warm, habitable climate with
Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends
There are so many factors that can influence how we perceive others, which in turn can determine the people we choose as platonic friends or
Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia
In a Black Mirror-esque turn, some cash-strapped actors who didn’t fully understand the consequences are regretting selling their likenesses to be used in AI videos
“Lab leak” marketing page replaces federal hub for COVID resources
After obliterating the federal office on long COVID and clawing back billions in COVID funding from state health departments, the Trump administration has now entirely
Mike Wood, Whose LeapFrog Toys Taught a Generation, Dies at 72
His LeapPad tablets, which helped children read, found their way into tens of millions of homes beginning in 1999.
Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars
Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isn’t exactly propitious for
Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems
When it comes to actually storing the numerical weights that power a large language model’s underlying neural network, most modern AI models rely on the
Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts
Google’s history with music services is almost as convoluted and frustrating as its history with messaging. However, things have gotten calmer (and slower) ever since