Instead of paying musicians properly, the likes of Spotify have set up ‘donation’ buttons – thus passing the buck to fans, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original coun­try of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with…

Essay 17

Environmental consultancy Quiet Mark is on a mission to ensure technology is seen but barely heard.

The Dragon Go Server (DGS) is a place where you can play turn-based Go (aka Baduk or Weichi) with other players from around the world in different time zones. It functions more or less the same way as playing Go via email but just using your web browser.…

Let's focus on a factor that puts even more extreme limits on home ownership - HOAs. And more specifically why you should avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods.

After showing an impressive demo last year and unleashing recently with the UE5 preview, Nanite is all the rage these days. I just had to go in and have some fun trying to figure it out and explain…

Thoughts about a new direction for desktop UI

This article is part of a themed issue on Inflammation, Repair and Ageing. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v179.9/issuetoc.

Telling the time with a faulty digital clock and constraint propagation

How it Works. Escalator Cardboard Model.

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Network topology and the ghost of the digg homepage

Educating the TikTok generation

Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way.

Losing a billfold, or having it stolen, will never be a happy experience. What a pain. But with the advent of the “wallet PC,” which I expect to become popular

The AMD team surprised us here. What seemed like a very par-for-the-course Computex keynote turned into an incredible demonstration of what AMD is testing in the lab with TSMC’s new 3D Fabric technologies. We’ve covered 3D Fabric before, but AMD is putting…

The Belt and Road infrastructure megaproject doesn’t just include rails and highways, it’s aimed at helping nations achieve energy independence,

This blog post operates on two levels. On a very direct level, I built a desktop machine with an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card and I’ve been fighting a rather annoying interaction with dual monitors on Linux. Here’s how it goes: After some defined period…

From the archives: Ars talks to the filmmakers who collaborated with an AI for Sunspring.