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We’ve all had a good seven years to figure out why our interconnected devices refused to work properly with the HDMI 2.1 specification. The HDMI Forum announced at CES today that it’s time to start considering new headaches. HDMI 2.2…
More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off.
Record-breaking Wolf 907F, the alpha of the Junction Butte pack, died after a confrontation with a rival pack at Yellowstone River on Christmas Day.
Last month, we asked readers to donate to a couple of good causes in our 2024 Charity Drive sweepstakes. And boy, did you deliver. With the drive now complete and the donations all tallied, we can report that Ars Technica…
After a long career as a politician from Florida, former astronaut Bill Nelson has served as NASA’s administrator for the last three and a half years. He intends to resign from this position in about two weeks when President Joe…
Narratives of adversity differ significantly across cultures in their themes and relationship to well-being, according to a study published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. Ariana F. Turner and colleagues investigated how cultural contexts influence the way adults…
Andrew Garberson has a message for drivers in cold-climate states like Minnesota: Yes, you can still drive an electric car. Public scrutiny over how well EVs perform in cold weather has grown in recent years following high-profile incidents, like one…
The latest rage in automotive vehicle design is the so-called “software-defined vehicle.” Instead of dozens and dozens of discrete black boxes, each with its own legacy cruft, an SDV is a clean-sheet approach with a handful of powerful computers, each…
A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.
When Pluto met Charon, there was an instant connection, new simulations suggest.
