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Nintendo isn’t using anti-drift Hall effect sensors on Switch 2 joysticks

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 04/07/2025 11:48 EDT

But Nintendo promises "redesigned" Joy-Cons are "smoother" and "more reliable." Read more ›

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Our top 10 Jackie Chan movies

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 04/07/2025 09:17 EDT

Chan's distinctive style combines slapstick, acrobatics, martial arts, and astonishing stunts he performs himself. Read more ›

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DOGE gearing up for hackathon at IRS, wants easier access to taxpayer data

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Makena Kelly, wired.com @ Ars Technica · 04/07/2025 09:12 EDT

IRS worker: "an open door controlled by Musk for all Americans' most sensitive information." Read more ›

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The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policy

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 04/07/2025 07:00 EDT

FCC invokes 1960s-era policy to punish media after decades of minimal enforcement. Read more ›

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How did eastern North America form?

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Alexandra Witze, Knowable Magazine @ Ars Technica 1 place · 04/06/2025 07:11 EDT

Collisions hold lessons for how the edges of continents are built and change over time. Read more ›

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Go back to the Grid in TRON: Ares trailer

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica 2 place · 04/05/2025 14:24 EDT

It's more of a standalone reboot rather than a direct sequel to 2010's TRON: Legacy. Read more ›

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Dustland Delivery asks which is worse: Gas prices or gangs of rotting mutants

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica 2 place · 04/05/2025 07:30 EDT

Buy low, sell high, fight raiders, and fix tires in this quirky RPG. Read more ›

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Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation

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Nitin Sekar  @ Ars Technica 2 place · 04/05/2025 07:05 EDT

Ecosystems are inconveniently complex, and elephants won't make good surrogates. Read more ›

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With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military’s top launch provider

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica 2 place · 04/04/2025 23:33 EDT

The military's stable of certified rockets will include Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Vulcan, and New Glenn. Read more ›

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Midjourney introduces first new image generation model in over a year

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 18:34 EDT

The new model is now in public alpha and has personalization enabled by default. Read more ›

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Judge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 17:19 EDT

OpenAI loses bid to dismiss NYT claim that ChatGPT contributes to users’ infringement. Read more ›

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Not just Switch 2: ESA warns Trump’s tariffs will hurt the entire game industry

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 16:36 EDT

"[It's] hard to imagine a world where tariffs like these don’t impact pricing." Read more ›

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NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 16:17 EDT

Used by nation-states and crime groups, fast flux bypasses many common defenses. Read more ›

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Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 15:37 EDT

A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and a one version of MS-DOS. Read more ›

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Gemini “coming together in really awesome ways,” Googler says after 2.5 Pro release

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 15:15 EDT

Google's Tulsee Doshi talks vibes and efficiency in Gemini 2.5 Pro. Read more ›

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EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica 2 place · 04/04/2025 14:40 EDT

Regulators discuss size of penalty as X calls punishment "political censorship." Read more ›

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NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 14:19 EDT

Here's how one teen plans to fix schools failing kids affected by nudify apps. Read more ›

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“Existential crisis”: The tariff scythe takes a swing at board games

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica 2 place · 04/04/2025 13:48 EDT

Most games are made in China. They now face hefty fees. Read more ›

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We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built

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Jacek Krywko @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 13:37 EDT

Plant cells without a cell wall are fragile, so it's hard to image its construction. Read more ›

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Newly hatched hummingbird looks, acts like a toxic caterpillar

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Elizabeth Rayne @ Ars Technica · 04/04/2025 13:02 EDT

"Batesian mimicry" is when a species evolves to look like one that's inedible. Read more ›

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