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Samsung is starting 2025 with a fresh attempt at popularizing 3D displays. Announced today, Samsung’s Odyssey 3D is the follow-up to prototypes that Samsung demoed at last year’s CES technology trade show. This year, Samsung is showing off a final…
It’s January, and for people in the US, that means the same thing it’s meant every January since 2019: a new batch of previously copyrighted works have entered the public domain. People can publish, modify, and adapt these works and…
The solar probe came within 6.1 million kilometers of the surface of the sun and lived to tell the tale.
New research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin highlights a connection between honor culture and military service in the United States. Across three studies, researchers uncovered that honor-oriented states consistently produce higher military enlistment rates than dignity-oriented states,…
Squid Game‘s hotly anticipated second season debuted on Netflix the day after Christmas and racked up more than 68 million views in just three days. It had already been renewed for a third and final season—filmed back-to-back with S2—but Netflix…
If you’ve been too busy reading about giant old TVs to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry. You still have a little bit of time to donate to a good cause and get a…
Carbon fiber, aluminum, maybe the odd bit of titanium here or there: These are the materials we usually expect race cars to be made of. Now you can start adding thermoplastics like Utlem to the list. Addictive manufacturing has become…
An expanding polar vortex is expected to lower temperatures across the eastern half of the U.S., with the potential for record-breaking cold in January.
Researchers believe they have found the site where Alexander the Great’s troops fought the Battle of the Granicus.
Episodes of “binge drinking” can have dangerous short-term effects, while repeated binge drinking can trigger longer-term problems.
