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Over three decades later, Nintendo remembers the Virtual Boy exists

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 09/12/2025 11:46 EDT

A $100 replica Switch dock or $25 cardboard sleeve is needed to play the 3D re-releases. Read more ›

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New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 09/12/2025 11:09 EDT

Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways. Read more ›

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Small, affordable, efficient: A lot to like about the 2026 Nissan Leaf

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 09/12/2025 11:00 EDT

Smaller on the outside, bigger on the inside, and it goes farther on a single charge. Read more ›

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Ex-DVD company employee gets 4 years for leaking Spider-Man Blu-ray

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 09/12/2025 10:44 EDT

Man agreed to return more than 1,000 stolen DVDs to his former employer. Read more ›

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Microsoft dodges EU fine by unbundling Teams from Office

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Barbara Moens, Financial Times @ Ars Technica · 09/12/2025 09:02 EDT

EU probe came after complaint by Slack in 2020. Read more ›

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Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 09/12/2025 08:29 EDT

North Korea test-fired a powerful new solid rocket motor for its next-generation ICBM. Read more ›

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Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer

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Cameron Kaiser @ Ars Technica · 09/12/2025 07:00 EDT

“He wanted to make [computers] more usable and friendly to people who weren't geeks.” Read more ›

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OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 18:27 EDT

Companies work to finalize terms as OpenAI pursues for-profit restructuring. Read more ›

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Child dies of horrifying measles complication in Los Angeles

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 17:58 EDT

SSPE is a rare but always fatal disease that destroys a child's brain. Read more ›

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NASA found intriguing rocks on Mars, so where does that leave Mars Sample Return?

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Eric Berger @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 17:21 EDT

"I have to look at dollars, and I have to look at time, and I have to look at return." Read more ›

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Latest TRON: Ares trailer takes us back to 1982

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 15:02 EDT

"Our worlds are more connected than anyone knows." Read more ›

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New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 14:41 EDT

Physicists spliced merger's gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface areas. Read more ›

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Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 14:21 EDT

Ted Cruz won’t give up fight to block states from regulating AI. Read more ›

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35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 13:56 EDT

“We are all addicted to hypervisors, and that needs to change." Read more ›

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Is Hollow Knight: Silksong too hard? Well, it depends on what you mean by “hard.”

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 13:45 EDT

The Ars Difficulty Matrix™ helps us analyze the many dimensions of Silksong's challenges. Read more ›

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Gmail gets a dedicated place to track all your purchases

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 09/11/2025 12:01 EDT

Gmail reorganizes its order-tracking and promotion filters ahead of the holiday season. Read more ›

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The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware

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Vas Panagiotopoulos, wired.com @ Ars Technica 3 place · 09/11/2025 09:22 EDT

And new countries are linked to the dangerous software. Read more ›

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Pentagon begins deploying new satellite network to link sensors with shooters

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 09/10/2025 22:01 EDT

"This is the first time we'll have a space layer fully integrated into our warfighting operations." Read more ›

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Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 09/10/2025 17:28 EDT

Verizon and T-Mobile lost but AT&T beat the FCC. SCOTUS may have to step in. Read more ›

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After Ukrainian testing, drone detection radar doubles range with simple software patch

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 09/10/2025 17:16 EDT

Even mobile radars are now software upgradeable. Read more ›

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