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A ridiculous, performative gesture by CAH. This is just low-grade trolling and you all are cheering for it. I hope they enjoy their meagre non-victory settlement.

You didn't understand this quote from the article? "...penalties of nearly $100 million on owners of properties where cannabis had been found. About 86 percent of those property owners were of Asian descent." Eighty-six percent of anything is something we call a "pattern." It's OK to notice...

Electric cars are just really boring to drive, for the same reason that enthusiasts turn their nose up at CVTs and piped-in fake engine noise.

Taking the advice of critics like Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun that the "whole debate around [AI] existential risk is wildly overblown and highly premature” is a lot like believing the oil executives in the 1970s who made similarly self-serving assertions about climate change not being a...

Great article, this is the kind of in-depth reporting that I come to Ars Technica for! p.s. Here's a link to the scholarly report on the Active Shielding Particle Pusher.

This article reads like it was written (and researched) by a highschooler with AI assistance. Most of the inventions brought up are mentioned once briefly, then discarded without any real analysis or context. And what’s with all the sentences beginning with “And”? Overall, this article lacks a...

No, the hydrofracking water does not "have to be pumped down into a second, lower layer." In fact, that's something the industry tries to avoid in most tight-oil situations being developed by horizontal directional drilling. The entire point of fracking, no more and no less, is opening fractures...

This "old" Google Maps screenshot is an example of a great color scheme: the things you care about (ROADS) are bright and high contrast with the surroundings and with the black text labels. Shades of yellow = major roads, bright white = roads. The surrounding land is gray, a perfect background...

The modern Porsche “manual” is a clutch-by-wire, gearselect-by-wire version of their (automatic) PDK. It literally uses a PDK twin-clutch transmission that you “pretend” to shift, the only difference is that it has all the external appearance (in the cabin) of a manual. There’s no direct...

Huh. In the last couple weeks I've been having phantom, very brief but intense whiffs of kerosene (smells like traveling on a jet plane or being in an airport) while indoors at work and at home, and outside while hiking. No obvious source for the smell. Never encountered this odor previously...

This is a strong argument for a restricted character set. ASCII has been there since the beginning. Extending it for domain names has been an evident mistake for decades.

What's the long-term plan here? Is Starlink going to build and send a constant train of satellites into orbit from now till the end of mankind? How much raw material full of scarce and critical elements is being irretrievably lost by burning all these satellites up as they de-orbit after a...

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Tempted, but then I remember I went with a UX305C a couple weeks ago and I won't have to worry about that palmrest "carbon fiber" soft-touch paint rubbing off... ;P