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Feature Archive

  1. TV industry’s ads, tracking obsession is turning your living room into a store

    TV software is getting loaded with ads, changing what it means to own a TV set.

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  2. AMD Ryzen 9000 review: Impressive efficiency, with bugs and so-so speed boosts

    High prices on an already-expensive AM5 platform make them a hard sell, though.

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  3. Framework Laptop 13 reviewed, again: Meteor Lake meh, Linux upgrades good

    Intel's latest chips often fall behind Ryzen, or even older Intel CPUs.

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  4. NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation

    Three Starliner mission managers had key roles on Columbia's ill-fated final flight.

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  5. Elon Musk’s lawsuit over alleged X ad boycott “a very weak case,” professor says

    Law is unfavorable to X, but Musk filed suit in potentially friendly Texas court.

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  6. The 2024 Honda Prologue—a dependable but somewhat dull EV

    Borrowing a GM platform means being stuck with some of GM's design decisions.

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  7. All the possible ways to destroy Google’s monopoly in search

    What the future of search could look like as DOJ seeks to end Google's monopoly.

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  8. Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is.

    As Tesla's core business starts to falter, CEO Elon Musk has robot fever.

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  9. Path to precision: Targeted cancer drugs go from table to trials to bedside

    What started in a scientist's dining room is now in tissue-agnostic combo trials.

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  10. A few weeks with the Pocket 386, an early-‘90s-style, half-busted retro PC

    AliExpress retro laptop doesn't always live up to its promise.

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  11. After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers

    "I'm just shocked they don't want more coverage of these things and not less."

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  12. Hybrids between two species can produce “swarms” that flourish

    Humans may be part of a hybrid swarm. And we’re making more of them.

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  13. Synology BeeStation review: A great way to start getting real about backups

    If you're not ready for full-on NAS gear, consider this clever little drive.

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  14. The Summit 1 is not peak e-mountain bike, but it’s a great all-rounder

    Great price, a solid all-around bike, but not everything you might want from an MTB.

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  15. Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers

    Keys were labeled "DO NOT TRUST." Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.

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  16. SpaceX just stomped the competition for a new contract—that’s not great

    NASA wants a "robust" commercial space community. But it has a long way to go.

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  17. We’re building nuclear spaceships again—this time for real 

    The military and NASA seem serious about building demonstration hardware.

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  18. Gazelle Eclipse C380+ e-bike review: A smart, smooth ride at a halting price

    It's a powerful, comfortable, fun, and very smart ride. Is that enough?

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  19. The Lucid Air Pure review: Lower weight, better steering, amazing efficiency

    Less power and less weight almost always makes for a better electric vehicle.

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  20. The best summer Prime Day deals we could find for Ars readers

    On day two of Amazon's summer sale extravaganza, here are the deals we liked.

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  21. Genetic cloaking of healthy cells opens door to universal blood cancer therapy

    Blood stem cells are being engineered to protect them from lethal therapies.

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  22. Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken.

    There's no incentive to fix the system, which was never designed to catch fraud anyway.

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  23. Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.

    Scientists struggle to define consciousness, AI or otherwise.

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  24. We test the baffling hubless Verge TS Pro electric motorbike

    The Verge TS is anything but cheap, but it does feature cutting-edge technology.

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  25. The Yellowstone supervolcano destroyed an ecosystem but saved it for us

    50 years of excavation unveiled the story of a catastrophic event and its aftermath.

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  26. Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next

    Artists must wait weeks for Glaze defense against AI scraping amid TOS updates.

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  27. Surface Pro 11 and Laptop 7 review: An Apple Silicon moment for Windows

    Superfluous AI features and compatibility issues don't detract from good PCs.

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  28. 30 years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive

    Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.

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  29. The world’s toughest race starts Saturday, and it’s delightfully hard to call this year

    Setting the stage for what could be a wild ride across France.

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  30. T-Mobile users enraged as “Un-carrier” breaks promise to never raise prices

    FCC gets 1,600 complaints; users blast "deceptive advertising aimed at seniors."

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  31. Star Wars behind the scenes: Creating the unique aesthetic of The Acolyte

    Ars chats with production designer Kevin Jenkins and cinematographer Chris Teague.

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  32. Taking a closer look at AI’s supposed energy apocalypse

    AI is just one small part of data centers’ soaring energy use.

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  33. Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter

    Id Software co-founder talks to Ars about everything from Catacomb 3-D to "boomer shooters."

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  34. Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

    Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.

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  35. From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction

    MUDs, Usenet, and open source all play a part in 50 years of IF history.

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  36. MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support fades

    Sequoia is both more and less generous to Intel Macs, depending on the model.

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