Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025
When we put together our top 20 games of last year, we specifically called out Civilization 7, Avowed, Doom: The...
The Splay is a subpar monitor but an exciting portable projector
Since I’m fascinated by new display technologies and by improving image quality, I’ve never been a fan of home projectors....
FCC’s import ban on the best new drones starts today
Americans will be unable to buy the latest and greatest drones because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has banned foreign-made...
Safety panel says NASA should have taken Starliner incident more seriously
For the better part of two months last year, most of us had no idea how serious the problems were...
World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs
The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed...
NASA rewraps Boeing Starliner Astrovan II for Artemis II ride to launch pad
Artemis II, meet Astrovan II. NASA’s first astronauts who will fly by the moon in more than 50 years participated...
Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
Apple was hit with a $115 million fine Monday after Italy’s competition authority alleged the tech giant was abusing its...
How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade
For people living in the European Union, the price of their next car, home renovation, and even local produce may...
LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems
Online fury erupted this week after an LG TV owner claimed that a firmware update installed unremovable generative AI software...
The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers
The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers...