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Details on AMD’s $549 and $599 Radeon RX 9070 GPUs, which aim at Nvidia and 4K

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 02/28/2025 10:00 EDT

New GPUs launch March 6, targeting upper-midrange 1440p and 4K gaming PCs. Read more ›

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US Antarctic Program disrupted by DOGE-induced chaos

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Leah Feiger, wired.com @ Ars Technica · 02/28/2025 09:31 EDT

Long-term impacts will affect not only research but also geopolitics. Read more ›

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On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 02/28/2025 09:00 EDT

Skype users will be able to move into Teams with their existing accounts. Read more ›

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Did the snowball Earth give complex life a boost?

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Hannah Richter @ Ars Technica · 02/28/2025 07:30 EDT

Planet-wide glaciers may have filled the oceans with mineral nutrients. Read more ›

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Rocket Report: Rocket Lab’s news blitz; Starship mishap blamed on vibrations

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 02/28/2025 07:00 EDT

One Falcon 9 launched an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, an asteroid prospector, and a NASA science probe. Read more ›

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Elon Musk fans truly believe he can make Dogecoin the currency of Earth

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 02/28/2025 07:00 EDT

Dogecoin Foundation strikes deals to mainstream the popular memecoin. Read more ›

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Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 20:06 EDT

This success lays the foundation for future missions to dock with out-of-control satellites. Read more ›

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Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 18:43 EDT

Repositories once set to public and later to private, still accessible through Copilot. Read more ›

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Microsoft brings an official Copilot app to macOS for the first time

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 16:24 EDT

It looks and works just like similar apps from OpenAI and Anthropic. Read more ›

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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise

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Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 16:14 EDT

New diffusion models borrow technique from AI image synthesis for 10x speed boost. Read more ›

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Google will finally fix awesome (but broken) song detection feature for Pixels

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 15:56 EDT

Google broke the feature last year, and it's taken months of complaints to get this far. Read more ›

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The PlayStation VR2 will get a drastic price cut, but that might not be enough

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 14:10 EDT

This could revitalize the platform—or demonstrate that things aren't going well. Read more ›

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Now the overclock-curious can buy a delidded AMD 9800X3D, with a warranty

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Kevin Purdy @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 13:51 EDT

CPUs ready to blast past their limits can be had with a warranty, for a premium. Read more ›

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Doctors report upticks in severe brain dysfunction among kids with flu

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 13:00 EDT

CDC data is limited but hints it could be one of the more severe seasons. Read more ›

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Portal Randomized feels like playing Portal again for the first time

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 12:34 EDT

Small gameplay tweaks make for a completely fresh take on old challenges. Read more ›

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Trump should block Biden’s AI “gift” to China, Microsoft argues

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Ashley Belanger @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 12:16 EDT

Microsoft: If US cuts off “friends” from AI chips, China will win AI race. Read more ›

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Max is pulling CNN and sports from some US subscribers starting on March 30

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 11:56 EDT

People who pay for ad-free Max will still have access to CNN Max and B/R Sports. Read more ›

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What we know about Waymo’s 2025 expansion plans

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Sharon Feldman @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 11:18 EDT

The public has a long way to go before it trusts autonomous vehicles. Read more ›

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Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 11:00 EDT

Fresh analysis with calorimetry, X-rays, electron microscopy lend support to hotly debated theory. Read more ›

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There’s a battery bigger than in most BEVs inside the Ramcharger hybrid

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 02/27/2025 10:43 EDT

Why 22 kWh of the Ramcharger's 92 kWh battery is not useable. Read more ›

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