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Competing Starliner's first crewed docking to ISS accomplished "more than expected?" Did they not expect to safely delive those two astronauts to the ISS when they rocketed them to space?

This headline is why I love Ars. Bravo!

It's not Star Trek, that universal translator works by magic and even makes the aliens' lips move in English. This sits inside your ear and translates words on the fly. It's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

Did you have this obituary article pre-written like the New York Times does for aging celebrities? This looks way too detailed to be thrown together in a rush when the news broke!

I'm a fan of the first two movies so I'm definitely looking forward to this. The first is still a showcase for what you can pull off with not-even-HD consumer digital video cameras (with upgraded lenses), a lot of ingenuity to take advantage of the format in ways that would be prohibitive with...

Will there be a “dumb” commercial monitor version of the G5 / C5 with the same brightness and size options? To be fair I never use the TV’s own input menu anyway except to watch OTC content (and that’s been a no-go where I now live anyway). Everything‘s switched on the stereo receiver, and the...

This is the same company, at least in name, that built the Saturn V that sent humans a thousand times farther than the ISS to the Moon. Still the most powerful rocket to ever fly, and it retired with a flawless record. And the same company that had a reputation for the most reliable commercial...

If there were update vaccines twice a year to keep up with the latest strains, I'd get them. The minor inconvenience of getting my arm pricked with a needle is better than the week-long annoyance of dealing with a COVID infection only partially covered by last year's vaccine.

This post made my day!

I read R.U.R. in high school, and the "robots" in it really are much more in line with Bladerunner's "replicants." If I remember right, it even had some similar themes: humanity using robots as a slave labor force, and the robots demanding human rights.

To anyone who’s actually watched his fake-CEO videos, did he ever actually introduce himself as CEO, or did he just say the keynote presenter type stuff as any PR spokesperson might, and someone added a caption later saying “CEO”?

That must be a California law, because other states regularly put gas stations, commercial charging facilities, Starbucks, and fast food restaurants at interstate highway rest areas. Only in California have I seen rest areas that are barren except for a public restroom and some vending machines.

There's a difference between "penalizing" and "not subsidizing." If part of the goal of this money is to promote American manufacturing, then it's legitimate for rules to be in place about where the cars' components need to come from.

You can't short sell your own company, or someone else's company that's been taken private. It involves borrowing someone else's stock and selling it the open market, on the promise that you'll buy back and return the same number of shares after x days (backed by an exorbitant collateral in case...

The Apple TV works so well at what it does, I’m a little relieved that they don’t change it too much every year. The killer features as far as I’m concerned: HomeKit. If you buy it for video streaming, you get a hardwired smart home base station for free. If I forgot I left my living room TV...

The most recent bivalent vaccine was found to still be around 50-62% effective against getting any detectable infection at all even among the then-latest COVID variants, according to two studies published in January 2023. That's not the 95% the original vaccines had against the original strain...

Don't mix up sci-fi with reality; AI really is a complex algorithm that does what it's programmed to, and is no more a person than an NPC in an Xbox game. That's also the point of Terminator: it wasn't "be nice to Skynet and give it human rights," it was "don't create a Skynet, and if you do...

The takeaway for me is the parasite was successfully removed and now her brain is free of that icky monster. Thank the stars for modern medicine!

While Fox News (the cable channel) and Fox broadcast channels are different entities under the same corporate umbrella, and while this case is about a Fox broadcast station, many Fox broadcast stations do in fact air content from Fox News. My local Fox broadcast channel has a weekly Fox News...