Gecko feet inspire anti-slip shoe soles
Gecko feet have inspired many intriguing applications, including a sticky tape, adhesives, a “stickybot” climbing...
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China responds to tariffs with antitrust investigations of Google, Nvidia
China has revived antitrust investigations into Google and Nvidia, while considering a new probe against...
Boeing has now lost $2B on Starliner, but still silent on future plans
Boeing announced Monday it lost $523 million on the Starliner crew capsule program last year,...
Man indicted for two alleged DeFI hacks that stole $65 million
Federal prosecutors have indicted a man on charges he stole $65 million in cryptocurrency by...
Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting
In what is becoming a sadly regular occurrence, two popular free software projects, X.org/Freedesktop.org and...
Concern about SpaceX influence at NASA grows with new appointee
Like a lot of the rest of the federal government right now, NASA is reeling...
Anthropic dares you to jailbreak its new AI model
Even the most permissive corporate AI models have sensitive topics that their creators would prefer...
Bonobos know when you’re clueless
A lot of human society requires what’s called a “theory of mind”—the ability to infer...
YouTube briefly banned 15-year-old channel with no strikes and won’t say why
Artemiy Pavlov, the founder of a small but mighty music software brand called Sinesvibes, spent...
Let us spray: River dolphins launch pee streams into air
According to Amazonian folklore, the area’s male river dolphins are shapeshifters (encantade), transforming at night...
Tariffs on biggest US trading partners likely to spike cost of cars, tech
Over the weekend, President Trump issued executive orders heaping significant additional tariffs on America’s biggest...
Starlink profit growing rapidly as it faces a moment of promise and peril
Two new independent estimates of revenue from SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service suggest it is rapidly...
Are AIs getting dangerously good at persuasion? OpenAI says “not yet.”
At this point, anyone following artificial intelligence is familiar with the many (often flawed) benchmarks...
How Honda is incorporating EVs into the cars it builds in America
Honda provided flights from Daytona to Columbus then Washington, DC, and accommodation so Ars could...
Microsoft 365’s VPN feature will be shut off at the end of the month
Last month, Microsoft announced that it was increasing the prices for consumer Microsoft 365 plans...