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Millions of people across the US South have gone without power or have been forced to evacuate following days of extreme downpours brought on by Hurricane Helene. North Carolina has borne the brunt of the devastation, with the state accounting…
This morning, Tesla posted its sales and production numbers for the third quarter of 2024. While not spectacular when compared to Q3 2023, the numbers do show modest growth, unlike the rather disappointing Q2 2024. However, the production and sales…
Greetings from the Orbiting HQ! As you can see, we’ve refreshed the site design. We hope you’ll come to love it. Ars Technica is a little more than 26 years old, yet this is only our ninth site relaunch (number…
Owners of the popular home EV chargers made by Juicebox are about to lose a whole lot of features. Its owner, the energy company Enel X, has just announced that it is leaving the North American market entirely as of…
Sonos’ controversial app update in May was “obviously a failure,” Sonos CEO Patrick Spence told Reuters today. When the update launched in May, customers revolted over missing features, like the ability to search music libraries, edit song and playlist queues,…
Astrophysicists estimate that any exponentially growing technological civilization has only 1,000 years until its planet will be too hot to support life.
The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on an ancient supernova, revealing fresh evidence that a crisis in cosmology called the Hubble tension isn’t going anywhere soon.
A longitudinal study in Australia found that children of mothers with asthma who had increased expression of specific inflammatory genes were more likely to show autism-related behaviors at 12 months. The genes in question were CYSLTR2, NOX1, C1QA, CXCL10, C8A,…
By tracing every single connection between nerve cells in a single fruit fly’s brain, scientists have created the “connectome,” a tool that could help reveal how brains work.
A thunderstorm seen in gamma-ray vision is a complex, frenetic lightshow when viewed from above the clouds.
