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Apple’s next product event happens on May 7, and it’s probably iPads
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple is going to announce some new things on Tuesday, May 7, at 10 am Eastern, according to an invitation the company sent out to members of the press (and posted to its...
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Rumored new 4K Chromecast may fix long-standing storage issues
Enlarge / The 2020 4K Chromecast with Google TV. It comes in colors. (credit: Google) It sounds like Google is cooking up another Google TV dongle. 9to5Google's sources say a new 4K model of the...
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iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less...
Enlarge (credit: Apple/Andrew Cunningham) Last year, Apple introduced the ability to set multiple timers at once in the Clock app on its various platforms. “We truly live in an age of wonders,”...
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
Enlarge / The Thermonator robot flamethrower dog. (credit: Throwflame) If you've been wondering when you'll be able to order the flame-throwing robot that Ohio-based Throwflame first announced last...
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The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
Enlarge / I have hundreds of UUIDs and I must scream. (credit: Getty Images) The modern "smart" TV asks a lot of us. In exchange for connecting you to a few streaming services you use, a TV will...
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Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?
Enlarge (credit: Qualcomm) Signs point to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors showing up in actual, real-world, human-purchasable computers in the next couple of months after years of speculation...
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Google can’t quit third-party cookies—delays shut down for a third time
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Will Chrome, the world's most popular browser, ever kill third-party cookies? Apple and Mozilla both killed off the user-tracking technology in 2020. Google, the world's...
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A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists
The Polestar Phone. Someday it will unlock your Polestar car. [credit: Polestar ] Polestar, the Volvo offshoot EV company, has made a smartphone. It's called, predictably, the Polestar Phone, and it's...
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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Reddit has made it clear that it’s an ad-first business. Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad format that aims to sell things to Reddit users. Simultaneously,...
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Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) “Gadgets aren’t fun anymore,” sighed my wife, watching me tap away on my Palm Zire 72 as she sat on the couch with her MacBook Air, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch. And...
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Qualcomm says lower-end Snapdragon X Plus chips can still outrun Apple’s M3
Enlarge (credit: Qualcomm) Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series of chips promises to be the company’s first that can go toe-to-toe with Apple Silicon, and the PC ecosystem is reacting accordingly. Microsoft...
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Noble Numbat, overhauls its installation and app experience
Enlarge / Ubuntu has come a long way over nearly 20 years, to the point where you can now render 3D Ubuntu coffee mugs and family pictures in a video announcing the 2024 spring release. (credit:...
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HMD’s first self-branded phones are all under $200
The HMD Pulse base model. [credit: HMD ] HMD has been known as the manufacturer of Nokia-branded phones for years now, but now the company wants to start selling phones under its own brand. The first...
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Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not
Enlarge / Tech brands love hollering about the purported thrills of AI these days. (credit: Getty) Logitech announced a new mouse last week. A company rep reached out to inform Ars of Logitech’s...
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Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release
Enlarge / A DOS prompt. Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known...
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Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
Enlarge (credit: Discord) Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut...
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Android TV has access to your entire account—but Google is changing that
Enlarge (credit: Google) Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which would grant attackers with physical access to your device access to your entire...
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First post: A history of online public messaging
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) People have been leaving public messages since the first artists painted hunting scenes on cave walls. But it was the invention of electricity that...
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Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures
Enlarge / Intel's top-end i9-14900KS. (credit: Intel) Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel's recent high-end Core i9 and Core i7 processors had been crashing and exhibiting other weird...
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Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours
Enlarge / AI is here to terminate your bank account. (credit: Carolco Pictures) Give the AI access to your credit card, they said. It'll be fine, they said. Users of Meta's ad platform who followed...
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