MSI’s version of the AMD RX 6600XT, which is the one Ars Technica tested for this review. [credit: MSI / AMD ] In a traditional PC hardware cycle, AMD’s new RX 6600XT could have been a welcome stopgap for a budget audience. Over the years, we’ve regularly seen this kind of GPU from both major […]
Enlarge / Image of a BE-4 rocket engine on a test stand in West Texas. (credit: Blue Origin) After more than four years of frustrating delays, Blue Origin is finally making significant progress toward completing development of its powerful BE-4 rocket engine. At present, engineers and technicians with the company are assembling the first two […]
[credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] It’s been almost two years since I first met the Porsche Taycan, the stylish and swift electric vehicle that ticks all the right boxes. Since then, withdrawal has set in. I’ve been desperate for another fix of this EV that still feels like the happy result of a transporter accident involving […]
This is Cadillac’s final generation of internal combustion-powered sports sedans, and the company is going out on a high with the 472-hp CT4-V Blackwing. In fact, this might be my new favorite performance sedan. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] Cadillac provided flights to Raleigh-Durham and two nights at Virginia International Raceway so we could drive its […]
Enlarge / This sketch is all we’ve seen of Porsche’s forthcoming LMDh hybrid racer. But now we know that when it starts racing in 2023, it will be run by Team Penske. (credit: Porsche) In 2021, there is a real buzz building in the world of sports car racing. After many years of running incompatible […]
I mean, all the packaging required for a game spanning three CDs might help inspire some environmental mindfulness on its own. In September of 1997, Final Fantasy VII was released for the original Playstation in North America. The watershed game swapped the series’ swords-and-sorcery-and-sun-dappled-forests motif for bombs and machine guns in a dark, rainy futuristic […]
Enlarge / Framework promised a modular, lightweight, ultraslim 13-inch laptop with a 3: 2 display at a competitive price—and that’s exactly what it delivered. (credit: Jim Salter) When we originally covered startup Framework’s ambitious plans for a fully repairable, modular laptop aiming to compete on even ground with industry champions like Dell’s XPS 13, it […]
“Discovery” flights, a brand-new MSFS feature in its console version, begin in mid-air in scenic locales with pre-populated weather and lighting settings. All of them are a visual treat. The following gallery was captured within real-time on Xbox Series X. When I think of the history of game consoles, I think of flight simulators. Nintendo […]
Trailer for Silk Road . In the last decade or so of Ars, two pre-COVID news stories stand out to me as the “biggest”—the kind of stuff that captivates a general audience in the moment and will attract the eyes of Hollywood eventually. The first one happened back in 2013, when former NSA contractor Edward […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was trying to do with Ars headlines, the first thing he thought was that we had chosen a deceptively hard problem. He warned that I needed […]