Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Since 2024, Microsoft has tried to sell “Copilot+ PC.” The marketing initiative was aimed at making it easy for people to know which Windows systems were approved to run AI-accelerated workloads...
View ArticleF-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app...
Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but there are other ways to get apps. F-Droid bills itself as a community-driven source for free and open source Android apps, but...
View ArticleRobots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer
Ukraine’s military robots are dropping from heavy drones in airborne assaults behind Russian lines as other robots clear mines ahead of advancing Ukrainian infantry. The wheeled ground robots are...
View ArticleReview: Apple's hyper-pricey M5 Ultra Mac Studio made me into a vibe coder
This spring, Apple made it official: The Mac Pro is dead. When Apple was using Intel processors and AMD GPUs, the idea of an expandable and upgradeable tower made sense. But Apple Silicon chips bring...
View ArticleDisney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
Disney+ got its fourth price hike in four years today. Hulu prices also went up. Disney+ and Hulu’s respective standalone, ad-free plans (which also support 4K and HDR) are each increasing 13 percent...
View ArticleXPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
Wildfire detection from space and firefighting drones featured among the finalists honored in the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition. Although no team walked away with either of the two grand...
View ArticleYouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
The annual Made on YouTube event has just wrapped up, offering an early look at the features you can expect to come to Google's dominant online streaming platform in the coming months. Yes, there's...
View ArticleOwners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update. Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea,...
View ArticleAdobe Premiere finally brings powerful video editing to Android, and it's free
Video editing has never been Android's strong suit. While Apple has long offered iMovie for iPhone and iPad, Google has never had a comparable offering. Adobe is now stepping up to fill this feature...
View ArticleDyson’s most overengineered gadget may have a waterproofing problem
There's always a danger in over-complicating products. Simple is so often best. The apocryphal story of NASA spending millions crafting a space pen while Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil is often cited...
View ArticleMilitary milestone: Ukrainian naval drone sinks Russian kamikaze drone boat
In the world’s first clash of the drone boats, a Ukrainian naval drone destroyed a Russian explosive drone boat using a remote-controlled machine gun turret. This comes as the war in Ukraine has...
View ArticleApple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough
The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts. These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re also usually...
View ArticleGooglebooks launch October 4 starting at $899—here are the five models you...
Google is ready to take a swing at laptops... again. The company has had a lot of success in phones, but it has struggled to parlay that into an effective strategy for larger screens. Chromebooks have...
View ArticleIran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United...
View ArticlemacOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review
Apple Intelligence is back, baby! That's right: Two years after its initial launch, Apple is giving its generative AI features their first significant upgrade, along with a new version of Siri that the...
View ArticleFounder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
China leads the world in churning out humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs that also happen to be the most affordable on the market—and Unitree Robotics’ founder Wang Xingxing is arguably one of...
View ArticleAI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
For years now, the major frontier AI labs have all been acting as if they're in an all-out, winner-take-all race with control of world-changing machine superintelligence (or at least market-changing...
View Article"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up
In the badlands of Chakwal, in north-central Pakistan, Bestway Cement is transforming plots of dry earth and olive and peach groves into a forest of solar panels. Its efforts will add 6.34 megawatts of...
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I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold...
There is something wrong with the tractor. The water-in-fuel sensor, a small device embedded in the John Deere machine that monitors the integrity of its diesel engine, is disconnected. And I’ve got to...
View ArticleI spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
On a sunny morning in June, I walked to work with a quadruped robot beside me. I’ve never gotten more attention from strangers. A bunch of people snapped pictures of my robot dog. Several people asked...
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