Amazon ends free ad-supported streaming service after Prime Video with ads debuts
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service, as it heightens...
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Trump says Elon Musk will lead “DOGE,” a new Department of Government Efficiency
President-elect Donald Trump today announced that a new Department of Government Efficiency—or “DOGE”—will be led...
How Valve made Half-Life 2 and set a new standard for future games
It’s Half-Life 2 week at Ars Technica! This Saturday, November 16, is the 20th anniversary...
What did the snowball Earth look like?
By now, it has been firmly established that the Earth went through a series of...
Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history
Former US Air National Guard Jack Teixeira was sentenced to 15 years in prison for...
Tesla is recalling 2,431 Cybertrucks, and this time there’s no software fix
Tesla has issued yet another recall for the angular, unpainted Cybertruck. This is the sixth...
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment 50 years later
In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly...
Seeking favor with Musk and Trump, advertisers plot return to X
Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump is set to boost X’s flagging business, with some...
Dutch startup Sympower secures €21M to balance out the energy grid
Amsterdam-based startup Sympower has secured €21mn as it looks to scale its grid-balancing technology. Sympower...
Why learning 10 programming languages doesn’t make you a more interesting job candidate
New data from LinkedIn on the most in-demand jobs on the platform in the third...
Battery recycling startup Tozero bags €11M to boost Europe’s lithium supply
In 1991, Sony brought the first rechargeable lithium-ion battery to market. The unique chemistry proved...
New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been...
This elephant figured out how to use a hose to shower
Mary the elephant shows off her hose-showering skills. Credit: Urban et al./Current Biology Mary the...
For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce
Barely nine months after the last cut, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will again reduce its...
What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?
For years now, many AI industry watchers have looked at the quickly growing capabilities of...