It’s a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden pop, a gruesome spill, or sometimes a burst of flames. And it was allegedly all due to one guy who didn’t copy a stolen formula correctly. The “capacitor plague” of the early 2000s was … Read more
Price: £39.99 Developer: Milestone Publisher: Milestone Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch Version Reviewed: PC I’m bonnet-over-boot in love with Hot: Wheels Unleashed, one of the most exciting, imaginative, and hands-down fun arcade racers I’ve played in years. Milestone’s game cherry-picks all the best bits from Trackmania, Burnout, and Micro Machines, … Read more
Tools like the James Webb Space Telescope are allowing scientists to look further back into the history of the universe than ever before, discovering incredibly distant objects like a galaxies from the first few hundred million years of the universe. Now, astronomers have looked at galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant galaxy known, and found something … Read more
Highly anticipated: Sony is once again timing the re-release of a Last of Us game with a season of the popular television series. With both arriving next month, the company has published a familiar-looking list of PC features and system specifications. Hopefully, The Last of Us Part II Remastered will perform more smoothly at launch … Read more
US Justice Department The aftermath of an arson attack on a Tesla dealership in Oregon, pictured in court documents US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday that three defendants accused of vandalism targeting Elon Musk’s Tesla electric vehicle company could face up to 20 years in prison. Bondi said the damage to Tesla cars, dealerships … Read more
Hyperscale datacentres are increasing in capacity faster than number as operators push to meet the growing demand for compute capacity required by artificial intelligence (AI) workloads by building increasingly bigger facilities. Data from market watcher Synergy Research Group confirms there are now 1,136 hyperscale datacentres in operation around the globe, as of the end … Read more
The Apple TV+ streaming service “is losing more than $1 billion annually,” according to The Information today. The report also claimed that Apple TV+’s subscriber count reached “around 45 million” in 2024, citing the two anonymous sources. Ars reached out to Apple for comment on the accuracy of The Information’s report and will update you … Read more
To many people, coding is about precision. It’s about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those actions exactly, precisely, and repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, it’s now possible for someone to describe a program in English and have the AI model translate it into working code … Read more
Black versions of the Noctua NH-12A CPU cooler, and the NF-12×25 fans are now available. These ‘chromax.black’ products have been on Noctua’s roadmap for quite some time but, eagerly anticipated as they are, have only just been released to retail. On the delay, Noctua commented that changing a product colour isn’t as trivial as it … Read more
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit over allegations of false advertising and unfair competition regarding the delayed launch of some of its Apple Intelligence features. The tech company has made much of its AI-infused Apple Intelligence tools when they were first unveiled at its developer event in June 2024, and while some of the … Read more
