Media playback is unsupported on your device YouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos. On Thursday, a BBC report explored how YouTube had helped the Flat Earth conspiracy theory spread. But the company’s new managing director for the UK, Ben McOwen Wilson, said YouTube “does […]
[embedded content] What do the young, ultra-smart students at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) think about when they’re not hard at work? It turns out that it’s much the same stuff that similarly aged people everywhere think about: namely, the latest time-wasting viral challenge. This month, that refers to the #BottleCapChallenge, in […]
Enlarge / Android Development: It can be a messy process. Google As has become tradition for Ars at Google I/O, we recently sat down with some of the people who make Android to learn more about Google’s latest OS. For 2019, the talk was all about Android Q and this year’s big engineering effort, Project […]
The Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus top our best smartphones list right now and the Samsung Galaxy S10e is our favorite smaller smartphone. They all have top class displays, plenty of raw power under the hood, and capable camera suites. While they have failed to emerge victorious from our camera shootouts, they have usually […]
SAN FRANCISCO — When Americans fear the future, they turn to antitrust action. It happened in the 1890s, when the United States was rapidly moving from a farming economy to an industrialized one. It happened again in the late 1940s, when nuclear war seemed imminent. And it is happening now, as big technology companies work […]
[embedded content] The refreshed X1D II 50C wasn’t the only camera Hasselblad announced on Wednesday, June 19. The company also introduced the CFV II 50C digital back and 907X camera body, a modern take on one of the most iconic film cameras ever made. As part of the same V system that Hasselblad has been […]
[embedded content] It was a sad moment earlier this year when NASA officially called it quits on its 15-year-old, record-setting Mars rover Opportunity, eight months after its last contact with the lander, following an intense dust storm in 2018. While Opportunity may be gone, Mars enthusiasts can revive the legendary rover from the comfort of […]
[embedded content] NASA’s Mars Helicopter passed its latest barrage of tests and is almost ready for its trip to the Red Planet, traveling alongside the Mars 2020 rover when the mission launches next year. This will be the first heavier-than-air vehicle ever to be flown on another planet, so there are a lot of engineering […]
Previous Next Dan Baker/Digital Trends Daven Mathies/Digital Trends Looking for a drone or gimbal? DJI’s Summer Sale means up to three-figure discounts on some of the company’s most popular products, including the DJI Mavic Air, Mavic 2 Zoom, and Ronin-S gimbal. The discounts are good from June 7 through June 16. The Mavic Air’s small […]
The Matrix Released almost exactly 20 years ago, The Matrix has gone on to become a cultural phenomenon well beyond the science fiction genre. While it was generally considered science fiction at the time, it helped popularize the Simulation Hypothesis: the idea that we’re all living inside a computer simulation. Rizwan Virk is Executive Director […]
Blade Runner is one of those cultural touchstones that’s clearly made a big impact on lots of VR developers. It’s even had a few VR apps of its own. But Melbourne-based OD1N Studios seems to essentially be making its own Blade Runner VR game, and it looks great. N1NE: The Splintered Mind is heading to […]
FAST The astonishing Aperture Spherical Telescope in Guizhou, China, may not have the tourist pull it once did, after the Chinese government imposed strict new rules against carrying or using electronic equipment within a radius of five kilometres. That includes smartphones, and cameras, meaning grinning selfies are a thing of the past. If you can’t […]
[embedded content] With its six engines, twin fuselage, and the world’s longest wingspan, the giant Stratolaunch jet took off from a California runway on Saturday as it embarked on its maiden flight. The Stratolaunch was the brainchild of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and could one day be used as part of a cost-effective […]
GeoTel Like one of those comic book supervillain crossovers where The Joker meets Lex Luthor or Doctor Doom takes on Magneto, the world’s biggest tech companies are battling one another — with Earth as their ultimate prize. That might sound a bit melodramatic, but it also sums up a recent trend by Silicon Valley companies […]
Reuters Britain wants to end the internet’s days as the Wild West by taking a world-leading role in regulating the world’s biggest tech companies. The UK government said it wants to legislate for a new independent regulator that will oversee “harmful content” on social media, search engines, messaging, and file-sharing platforms. It would be the […]