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Google inks $32 billion deal to buy security firm Wiz even as DOJ seeks breakup

Samara March 18, 2025

"While a tough regulatory climate in 2024 had hampered such large-scale deals, Wall Street is…

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SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey

Samara March 18, 2025

It's well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their…

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Eight years later, new but familiar-looking PebbleOS watches appear

Samara March 18, 2025

Certain watches can stay just as they are and people will keep buying them. The…

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DOGE cuts to USDA may open door to invasive species, higher food prices

Samara March 18, 2025

Two federal judges and an independent agency that assesses government personnel decisions have already ordered…

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New EV battery boasts 5-min charge time, adding 250 miles of range

Samara March 18, 2025

"Our goal is to make EV charging as fast as refueling a gasoline car," said…

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Even the worst mass extinction had its oases

Samara March 18, 2025

Some earlier plants might not have made it through the extinction since rock layers from…

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People in this career are better at seeing through optical illusions

Samara March 18, 2025

A hint came from our previous work comparing mathematical and social scientists’ judgements of illusions…

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Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking

Samara March 18, 2025

Multimodal output opens up new possibilities Having true multimodal output opens up interesting new possibilities…

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Here’s the secret to how Firefly was able to nail its first lunar landing

Samara March 18, 2025

"You want to avoid that," Coogan told Ars before Blue Ghost's launch. "What you can…

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Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question

Samara March 17, 2025

Ars Technica has reached out to the NIH and HHS for comment and will update…

Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars

Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts

Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”

Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems

Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives

Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars

Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts

Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”

Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars

Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts

Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”

Google inks $32 billion deal to buy security firm Wiz even as DOJ seeks breakup

SpiderBot experiments hint at “echolocation” to locate prey

Eight years later, new but familiar-looking PebbleOS watches appear

DOGE cuts to USDA may open door to invasive species, higher food prices

New EV battery boasts 5-min charge time, adding 250 miles of range

Even the worst mass extinction had its oases

People in this career are better at seeing through optical illusions

Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking

Here’s the secret to how Firefly was able to nail its first lunar landing

Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question

Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars

Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts

Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”