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by Jennifer Ouellette / 1h
No doubt buoyed by all the positive advance reviews on social media , Amazon MGM Studios has released one last trailer for Masters of the Universe , and it comes in strong with the 1980s nostalgia, chock-full of Easter eggs to delight Ars readers of a certain age. Directed by Travis Knight ( Bumblebee , Kubo and the Two Strings ), the film is a reboot of sorts of the He-Man and the Masters of the
At a star-studded event that closed Downtown Los Angeles' Sixth Street Viaduct last night, Mercedes and AMG unveiled the next generation of performance electric vehicles. The new four-door GT Coupe arrives in the midst of a pivotal period, the result of an almost experimental process that seems to take two steps forward and one step back quite regularly. In many ways, the all-electric AMG leaves
by Andrew Cunningham / 2h
It's not an ideal time to be buying a new PC or doing a major upgrade. Price crunches for RAM and storage chips are making all kinds of components more expensive, and the shift to DDR5 in modern Intel and AMD CPUs means that a lot of people would need to pay money to replace their current DDR4 kits if they wanted to step up to a significantly newer, faster CPU and motherboard. AMD may have someth
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by Dan Goodin / 2h
Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers. The proof-of-concept code exploits the Browser Fetch programming interface, a standard that allows long videos and other large files to be downloaded in the background. An attacker
President Donald Trump’s latest pitch for using taxpayer dollars to secure his White House ballroom featured a militarized building—including a rooftop hardened against drone strikes and a “drone port” that could potentially house military drones. The remarks came on May 19 as Trump gave reporters a personal tour of the ballroom project that has already involved the demolition of the White House
Disney currently has no plans to shutter Hulu as a standalone streaming service or app, according to a company representative. In a report from Variety today, the spokesperson said that Disney, which took total ownership of Hulu in June 2025 , will continue to sell subscriptions to Hulu in the US and that “there are no current plans to sunset the Hulu app.” Disney owned two-thirds of Hulu before
On Tuesday, biotech startup Colossal announced its newest development on the road to its announced goal: reversing the extinction of species, in this case, avian species. The development itself is essentially an artificial eggshell, one that allows almost the entire developmental process to occur without the shell. The company transferred the contents of eggs to their specially designed container
The Trump administration yesterday sued Minnesota in an attempt to block the first state law that prohibits prediction markets. While other states imposed restrictions on prediction markets, Minnesota banned them outright in a law signed by Gov. Tim Walz on Monday. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a lawsuit against the state, saying that Minnesota's "new legislation represent
Last year marked the beginning of Google's explicit focus on AI search, and this year's I/O solidified that shift . As Google's search VP Liz Reid said during the keynote, "Google search is AI search." This change is well underway, and the very reasonable objections to this path will not dissuade the company. All the metrics that matter to Google say this is the right move. But at the end of the
Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee cop who was jailed for 37 days for posting a Trump meme on Facebook , won an $835,000 settlement Wednesday after suing the county and sheriff that he said jailed him in order to censor him. In a press release , Bushart's legal team at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) confirmed that Bushart agreed to dismiss his lawsuit in exchange for t
by Eric Berger / 6h
It's difficult to know the true state of the Russian economy, both because the country's financial reporting is sparse and because official figures are unreliable. But things probably aren't great. This week, Sweden's minister of foreign affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, shared her country's assessment that the Russian economy has likely contracted over the last five years amid the war in Ukraine
by Scharon Harding / 6h
For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets—software that can track viewing habits, push ads, and generally shape the experience of using the device. The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a US nonprofit that promotes and provides legal support for free and open source software projects, isn't happy about that—so much so that it has spent
Beijing banned an Nvidia gaming chip while the company’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, was visiting China with Donald Trump last week, the latest salvo in the superpowers’ battle to dominate AI. The chip was added to a list of banned goods at China’s customs checkpoints last Friday, according to a copy of the document seen by the FT and two people with knowledge of the matter. The move highlight
The robotics startup Figure AI has been livestreaming humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for nearly a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern at one point. The promotional robot demo has become a viral sensation among tech enthusiasts, spurring YouTube commenters to name the robots and the company to rapidly roll out related robot me
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Volvo provided flights from Austin, Texas to Barcelona, Spain and accommodation so Ars could visit drive the EX60. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. BARCELONA, Spain—Volvo unveiled its new all-electric EX60 in January with a slew of distinctions. The EX60 is the first model on the company's all-EV SPA3 platform, a scalable base upon which Volvo plans to build a range of other vehicles.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer "near real time" information from cameras across the US. The proposed contract is for the FBI Directorate of Intelligence. "To evaluate and manage threats to personal safety, property, and law enforcement, the FBI
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