A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites
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‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again
And then there were two: Of the original 11 co-founders who kickstarted xAI with Elon Musk three years ago, only…
Y Combinator-backed Random Labs launches Slate V1, claiming the first ‘swarm-native’ coding agent
Carl Franzen March 13, 2026 VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Pro ImageThe software engineering world is currently wrestling with…
Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the Department of War
AnnouncementsPolicyStatement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War Feb 26, 2026I believe deeply in the existential…
New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes
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Yep, it’s fast: Donut Lab’s solid-state battery gets its first test result
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Google Gemini 3.1 Pro first impressions: a ‘Deep Think Mini’ with adjustable reasoning on demand
Sam Witteveen February 19, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Flux 2 Pro on fal.aiFor the past three months, Google’s Gemini…
Nothing opens its first retail store in India
Nothing, the hardware company backed by Tiger Global, is opening its first retail store in India, its biggest market. The…
OpenAI’s new Codex app hits 1M+ downloads in first week — but limits may be coming to free and Go users
Carl Franzen February 9, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with GPT-Image-1.5 on fal.aiIn a major milestone for the “AI coding wars,”…
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
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Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product
Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of my First Hardware ProductBuilding in consumer hardware as a software engineerSimonFeb 01, 202665Share1 year…
Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User2026.01.26.Tags: programming, guix Table of Contents 1. My Journey to Guix System 2….
The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K
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First, make me care
Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material….
BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
BlogBirdyChat becomes the first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsAppNovember 14, 2025Today we are excited to share a big…
One-time hot insurance tech Ethos poised to be first tech IPO of the year
In Brief Posted: 3:36 PM PST · January 20, 2026 Image Credits:Getty Images Julie Bort One-time hot insurance tech Ethos…
UTF-8 why specify length in the first byte?
I've stumbled across this video which explains how UTF-8 encoding works really well but there is one thing I don't…
BMW’s first electric M car is coming in 2027—with one motor per wheel
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Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, made using its long-awaited 18A process
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Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High
20FacebookEmailPinterestRedditShare20SHARES I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first…