Enlarge / Space is mind-bogglingly big… but what happens there may not stay there. The science fiction space opera is by now a well-known genre, and yet somehow The Expanse is hard to describe. Let me try to sum it up at its most basic: The Expanse is a show about space. It is a […]
Enlarge / That’s a lot of screen. Samuel Axon Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave attackers remote access to the entire device—over Wi-Fi, with no user interaction required at all. Oh, and exploits were wormable—meaning radio-proximity exploits could […]
Apple’s M1 Macs look like they could be a real revolution, providing a huge quality-of-life boost to long-suffering Mac owners who have had to scrape by with middling performance on their expensive machines for far too long. But amid all the plaudits, there has been one complaint that just will not die: That Apple has […]
This year could have been a huge one for right-to-repair activism — and it still could be, too. Lawmakers in 20 states have introduced bills that would force manufacturers to share their manuals and diagnostic tools with electronics owners. If passed, these laws would mean that do-it-yourself dabblers and independent fix-it shops could get the […]
Enlarge / Google’s Android adoption chart. Android 10’s “300 day” mark was 10 days ago. Google Google today dropped a blog post detailing its progress on improving the Android ecosystem’s update speed. The company has been hard at work for the past few years modularizing Android, with the hope that making Android easier to update […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device The first time Steve Saylor fired up the hotly-anticipated new game The Last of Us Part II, he burst into tears. “Y’all don’t even know how much…” he says between sobs in his video of the moment, which has now had nearly half a million views. “I’m sorry. […]
Activision Blizzard announced today as part of its latest earnings report that King’s mobile games had 273 million monthly active users in Q1 2020. King is behind the hit mobile puzzle franchise Candy Crush, which debuted in 2012 with Candy Crush Saga. That free-to-play title still remains one of the most popular mobile games, and […]
Whether it’s being able to freely walk outside, shop for supplies without feeling like you’re in a scene from Mad Max, or just enjoy a booming economy, there’s plenty to miss about the pre-coronavirus world. But face-to-face communication with friends and colleagues is something a lot of us are missing out on as well. Sure, […]
The BBC’s Panorama program spoofed the UK on April 1, 1957, with a segment on the so-called “spaghetti tree hoax.” We here at Ars do not typically indulge in the online prankery that comes with April Fool’s Day and are even less inclined to do so in the current climate. But it does provide an […]
Enlarge / The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019. Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple has been fined $ 1.2 billion by a French antitrust watchdog for anticompetitive activities. It is the largest fine ever processed by France’s antitrust regulators, and it follows eight years of preparation […]
NASA’s new class of astronauts — the first to graduate since the agency announced its Artemis program — appear on stage during their graduation ceremony at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on January 10, 2020. NASA If you’ve ever fancied walking on the moon or being the first human to step on another […]
Let’s block ads! (Why?) PCMag.com Latest Articles
Let’s block ads! (Why?) PCMag.com Latest Articles
If the price tag of the GoPro Hero 7 Black gives you heartburn, but you still want a quality GoPro action camera, the Hero 7 Silver is a great alternative. You get many of the Black’s features for a fraction of the price. Right now, Amazon’s selling the Hero 7 Silver for just $ 210, […]
Let’s block ads! (Why?) PCMag.com Latest Articles