Space Force official: Commercial satellites can do a lot more than we thought
A generation ago, when former NASA administrator Dan Goldin promoted the mantra of a “faster, better, cheaper” approach to the agency’s science missions, critics often
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Cops pause use of flawed AI cameras secretly monitoring streets for suspects
New Orleans police have reportedly spent years scanning live feeds of city streets and secretly using facial recognition to identify suspects in real time—in seeming
Epic goes to court to force Fortnite back on US iOS
After last month’s bombshell legal ruling forcing Apple to allow the use of external payment processors for in-app purchases on iOS, Epic CEO and founder
How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future
After initially banning artificial intelligence chatbots, schools are embracing the tools. Miami, the third-largest U.S. school district, shows how.
How to Travel Without a Phone
Leaving your device at home might seem daunting, but it can result in a deeper connection to a place and more authentic interactions with locals.
HBO’s The Last of Us S2E6 recap: Look who’s back!
New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday night, and Ars’ Kyle Orland (who’s played the games) and
Drop Duchy is a deck-building, Tetris-like, Carcassonne-esque puzzler
When my colleague Kyle Orland submitted Tetrisweeper for a list of Ars’ favorite 2024 games not from 2024, I told him, essentially: “Good for you
Rocket Report: How is your payload fairing? Poland launches test rocket.
Welcome to Edition 7.44 of the Rocket Report! We had some interesting news on Thursday afternoon from Down Under. As Gilmour Space was preparing for
Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly case
Meta thinks there’s no reason to carry on with its defense after the Federal Trade Commission closed its monopoly case, and the company has moved
xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”
On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM’s sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged “white
Forgive me, Volvo, I was wrong: The 2025 V60 Cross Country review
As we often like to remind people, beware buying any car in its first model year. It takes a little while for any OEM to
Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean
How did reptilian things that looked something like crocodiles get to the Caribbean islands from South America millions of years ago? They probably walked. The
Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China’s super-secret satellites?
Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are
OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for coding
We’ve been expecting it for a while, and now it’s here: OpenAI has introduced an agentic coding tool called Codex in research preview. The tool