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Enlarge / A click-wheel video iPod, perhaps the most iconic iPod model. This one went away a long time ago, but its last living relative’s days have come to an end, too. (credit: Aurich Lawson) One of the most popular and iconic gadget brands in history is taking its last breath today. Apple has announced […]
Enlarge / The Sharp Aquos R7. (credit: Sharp) The latest entry in our ongoing coverage of “cool phones you can’t buy within the US” is the Sharp Aquos R7 . This phone hits Japan in July, and it’s proof that you can make a differentiated smartphone in this day and age. Sharp is no stranger […]
Enlarge / Western Digital’s new 26 and 22TB hard drives. (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital announced a raft of new products yesterday aimed at both regular consumer PCs and big businesses with storage-hungry servers. The headliners are two new difficult drives with huge capacities —one 26TB and one 22TB—as well as high-capacity SSDs for servers, […]
Enlarge / US President Joe Joe biden at an event on broadband discounts for low-income Americans, in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 9, 2022. (credit: Getty Images | Drew Angerer ) Consumer advocates are not impressed by President Biden’s announcement that Internet service providers have agreed to provide cheap broadband to […]
Enlarge If you’re a potential PlayStation 5 owner who has been unable to find the console on store shelves over the last 18 months, Sony has good news and bad news for you. The good news is that the company now expects to produce 18 million PlayStation 5 units worldwide for the current fiscal year, which […]
Enlarge / Razer Viper V2 Pro. (credit: Razer) If you prefer a mouse that glides across a mousepad—or a glass surface, in this case—with minimal effort, finding a lightweight, cordless one is a good move. Lightweight mice are often LED-laden or hole-riddled pieces that look odd in most settings outside of a gaming den. But Razer’s […]
Enlarge / An artist’s rendering of Star Harbor Academy in Colorado. (credit: Star Harbor) A group of astronauts, engineers, and business executives is betting on a vibrant space economy by launching a new initiative called “Star Harbor.” Among several planned activities, this spaceflight campus would train future astronauts and make facilities such as a neutral […]
Enlarge / Three new, yet largely familiar, GPUs are now available from AMD. (credit: AMD) Starting today, AMD and a number of GPU makers will begin rolling out three new graphics cards in the Radeon 6000-series lineup. These new products add a “50” suffix to existing model numbers, and if you’ve followed AMD over the past […]
Enlarge (credit: W.W. Norton) This is an excerpt from the new book In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, by Ars Technica’s Deputy Editor, Nate Anderson. The book “adapts Friedrich Nietzsche’s passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by ‘content.’ Written long before the advent […]
James Cameron is finally bringing a sequel to 2009’s Avatar to theaters with Avatar: The Way of Water. If you ventured into the theater to watch Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness this weekend, you probably got to see the first teaser for Avatar: The Way of Water, the long-awaited sequel to the 2009 science-fiction blockbuster […]