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Microsoft is rolling out a new face for its AI, and its name is Mico. The company announced the new,…Rivian is settling $250 million lawsuit to focus on next year’s R2 EV
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Electric vehicle startup Rivian announced on Thursday that it has settled a lawsuit with some of its…Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing
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There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and…DNA analysis reveals likely pathogens that killed Napoleon’s army
Oct 24, 2025, 11:24 am By Jennifer Ouellette
In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led a disastrous military campaign into Moscow. The death toll was…This browser claims “perfect privacies protection,” but it acts like malware
Oct 24, 2025, 10:37 am By Matt Burgess, wired.com
The Universe Browser makes some big promises to its potential users. Its online advertisements claim…Satellite shows what’s really happening at the East Wing of the White House
Oct 24, 2025, 10:18 am By Stephen Clark
You need to go up—way up—to fully appreciate the changes underway at the White House this week.…Rocket Report: China tests Falcon 9 lookalike; NASA’s Moon rocket fully stacked
Oct 24, 2025, 7:00 am By Stephen Clark
Welcome to Edition 8.16 of the Rocket Report! The 10th anniversary of SpaceX’s first Falcon 9…With new acquisition, OpenAI signals plans to integrate deeper into the OS
Oct 23, 2025, 6:08 pm By Samuel Axon
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated (SAI), perhaps best known for the core team…Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results
Oct 23, 2025, 5:54 pm By Ashley Belanger
In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Reddit accused an AI search engine, Perplexity, of conspiring with…Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”
Oct 23, 2025, 5:20 pm By Kyle Orland
On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to…Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit
Oct 23, 2025, 4:57 pm By John Timmer
The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period…An NIH director joins MAHA, gets replaced by JD Vance’s close friend
Oct 23, 2025, 3:58 pm By Beth Mole
The director of a federal health institute that has arguably produced two of the most controversial…Microsoft makes Copilot “human-centered” with a ‘90s-style animated assistant
Oct 23, 2025, 2:48 pm By Andrew Cunningham
Microsoft said earlier this month that it wanted to add better voice controls to Copilot, Windows…The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters
Oct 23, 2025, 1:04 pm By Kiona N. Smith
Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction,…Valve upends the CS2 item marketplace with new “trade up” update
Oct 23, 2025, 12:40 pm By Kyle Orland
From the outside, Counter-Strike 2 looks a lot like a game that’s primarily about shooting people.…Great hybrid V6, lousy HMI: Three days with a Ferrari 296 GTB
Oct 23, 2025, 12:25 pm By Jonathan M. Gitlin
Ferrari provided flights from Washington, DC, to Austin, Texas, and accommodation so Ars could…Trump eyes government control of quantum computing firms with Intel-like deals
Oct 23, 2025, 11:33 am By Ashley Belanger
Donald Trump is eyeing taking equity stakes in quantum computing firms in exchange for federal…Reports suggest Apple is already pulling back on the iPhone Air
Oct 23, 2025, 11:04 am By Andrew Cunningham
Apple’s iPhone Air was the company’s most interesting new iPhone this year, at least insofar as…An outcast faces a deadly alien world in Predator: Badlands trailer
Oct 23, 2025, 9:58 am By Jennifer Ouellette
We’ve got a new international trailer for Predator: Badlands, the latest installment in a popular…Porsche does U-turn on electric vehicles, will focus on gas engines
Oct 23, 2025, 9:42 am By Sebastien Ash and Kana Inagaki, Financial Times
Porsche’s new boss was a sceptic of battery motors for luxury vehicles long before he was picked…
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