Mark Zuckerberg embraced a digital world known as the metaverse when he said in November 2021 that he would change his company’s name from Facebook… Read More »Apple steps into the metaverse. Does anyone care?
Enlarge / The Buzz is an electric interpretation of the classic 1950 T2. Volkswagen Good news everyone: it’s almost time for Volkswagen ID Buzz. The… Read More »A larger battery and three rows of seats for the VW ID Buzz in the US market
The news A Supreme Court judge on Thursday dismissed a privacy case brought against Meta by the District of Columbia, which had accused the company… Read More »Judge dismisses DC’s privacy lawsuit against Meta
Why it matters: It takes NASA two trips to get to orbit. To get to and from the space station, NASA currently relies on SpaceX,… Read More »Boeing and NASA delay Starliner launch over parachutes and wiring
Enlarge / The “Hey Google” inscription on the Google pavilion at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas in 2018. These words activate Google… Read More »Google Assistant kills support for third-party note-taking apps
When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is usually better. Large language models like ChatGPT and Bard, which generate conversational, original text, improve as… Read More »Would large language models be better if they weren’t so large?
BeeBright/Getty Images Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the entrenched code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become… Read More »Millions of PC motherboards have been sold with a firmware backdoor
Even before the recent TikTok bans and concerns about the surgeon general’s mental health, public attitudes to social media have evolved. Many people are moving… Read More »Use alternative apps and shared albums instead of regular social media
Enlarge / Samsung Display envisions the unfolding screen embodying future wearable monitors. Believe it or not, technology fairs are a thing in 2023. There are… Read More »6 monitor and TV innovations remind us that trade shows still exist
The technology can help reduce fatal accidents. Road fatalities are one of the most persistent causes of death in the United States, and they are… Read More »US will require all new cars to have automatic braking systems
The original Chromecast. Google Rest now, little Chromecast. Google has announced that the decade-old Chromecast 1 is finally reaching its end of life. A post… Read More »The original Chromecast is reaching the end of its life after ten years of service
European leaders have complained for years that the United States was not doing enough to combat climate change. Now that the Biden administration has spent… Read More »Europe worries US subsidies for battery factories will hurt, not help
Enlarge / On May 22, John Timmer (left) moderated a panel with Karin Bok (center) and Nathaniel Wang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session… Read More »mRNA technology for vaccines and more: a summary from Ars Frontiers
In the hacker houses of Silicon Valley, the latest crop of young entrepreneurs are partying, innovating – and hoping not to be crushed by the… Read More »The AI boom within Silicon Valley Start-Up Accelerators
A critical vulnerability patched 10 days ago in widely used email software from IT security firm Barracuda Networks has been actively exploited since October. The… Read More »Critical Barracuda 0-day was used for backdoor networking for 8 months
