Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the new Supersports and ride in a preproduction Torcal EV, which we wrote about last week.…
While we were there, we went for a ride in something quite old.
FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon yesterday, alleging that it has conducted a secret scheme to overcharge advertisers for seven years.…
"Since 2019, Amazon.
has secretly and systematically overcharged its approximately 1.
2 million advertising customers by manipulating the 'auctions' that it…
New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
Let's be frank: Some of Google's recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions.…
The new September Drop does have some Gemini flavor, but there are non…
Your messaging threads are getting prettier and more useful, and those…
And even the Gemini expansion is not without utility.
CDC reported then deleted two measles deaths that were questioned by RFK Jr.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials last week from its latest update of national measles data.…
The move publicly challenges the accuracy of the state's death determi…
The New York Times reported Monday that the CDC's new director, Erica …
Schwartz—less than a month into the job—reportedly ordered CDC staff t…
John Ternus sends first memo as Apple CEO teasing a ‘huge launch next week’
New Apple CEO John Ternus sent out his first staff memo, thanking his predecessor Tim Cook, and quickly turning to what the company will do next, reports Bloomberg.…
"We have a huge launch next week that's going to be phenomenal.
Thanks for everything you've all done to make it possible," writes Ter…
Ternus also hints at "incredible products already in the works and the…
It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed really well
Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through Earth's atmosphere.…
The ablative heat shield, designed to char upon reentry while keeping …
After much deliberation, and not without controversy, NASA decided to …