How many Radeon RX 6700XT graphics cards did AMD produce? Well, at least one. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] Look, I’ll level with you: reviewing a GPU amidst a global chip shortage is ludicrous enough to count as dark comedy. Your ability to buy new, higher-end GPUs from either Nvidia or AMD has been hamstrung for […]
Enlarge / The Snyder cut of Justice League is easily the most surprising comic book film adaptation I’ve seen in years. (credit: Warner Bros.) I knew I’d have a lot to say about Zach Snyder’s Justice League, a director’s cut released this week that went from hearsay to industry buzz to a full-blown production in […]
Enlarge / Our two hands-on gaming rigs are the Lenovo Legion 5i (left, currently connected to the monitor) and HP Omen 30L (right). (credit: Jim Salter) If you’re planning to build a new gaming rig in 2021, we have bad news for you—that’s going to be difficult to impossible, due to supply chain constraints imposed […]
Enlarge We’re roughly at the one-year point of the global COVID-2 pandemic—Ars’ initial explainer on the virus first published on March 8, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, and the US declared a national emergency on March 13. As we all grapple with the realization 12 months have passed, various anniversaries […]
Enlarge / Frederick Patterson standing beside a bare Patterson-Greenfield automobile chassis, probably for a larger touring car body. (credit: Courtesy of The Historical Society of Greenfield, Ohio: www.greenfieldhistoricalsociety.org) It’s September 1915 in Greenfield, Ohio, a small town located on the Paint Creek between Columbus and Cincinnati. At a time of year when summer’s warmth gives […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) The new Google Pay app came out of beta this week, and it marks the first step in a major upheaval in the Google Pay service. Existing Google Pay users are about to go through a transition reminiscent of the recent move from Google Music to YouTube Music: […]
It’s a beauty: The Drop CTRL keyboard [credit: Iljitsch van Beijnum ] The keyboard is one of the two parts of a computer setup where flesh and blood meet plastic and metal. (The other being the mouse or trackpad.) Using a keyboard effectively means moving fingers with the precision a computer can understand, often doing […]
Enlarge / San Diego Superior Court (credit: sdcourt.ca.gov) When she flew to San Diego in October 2013 with her friend who found a modeling ad on Craigslist, Jane Doe 7 believed she’d be paid $2,000 to do a nude photo shoot. And that photo shoot would only be released in Australia. Instead, she found a […]
Enlarge / The launch of Flight Three of the Falcon 1 rocket looked promising at the beginning. (credit: Chris Thompson/SpaceX) This is an excerpt from chapter eight of the book LIFTOFF: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by our own Eric Berger. The book will be published on March 2, 2021. […]
Volkswagen says the ID.4 is as important to its future as the Beetle was to its past. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] The Volkswagen ID.4 is a big deal for its manufacturer. After getting busted six years ago for fibbing about diesel emissions, VW underwent a corporate transformation, throwing all its chips into electrification. As a […]