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HBO’s The Last of Us S2E6 recap: Look who’s back!

New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday night, and Ars' Kyle Orland (who's played the games)...

Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China’s super-secret satellites?

Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some...

Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play?

Like the acorn example above, we had known what to do—we had just not done it to the game's rather exacting standards. The key...

RFK Jr’s plan to ban fluoride supplements will “hurt rural America,” dentists say

“Harmful” While fluoride can kill bacteria, particularly at high levels, it's used in oral health to inhibit the demineralization of tooth enamel while enhancing...

Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs

This week, Spotify rushed to remove hundreds of obviously fake podcasts found to be marketing prescription drugs in violation of Spotify's policies and, likely,...

The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs

In that sense, the vulgar Vader situation creates a touchy dilemma for Epic Games and Disney, which likely invested substantially in this high-profile collaboration....

The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch

This was unusual Payload fairing problems have caused a number of rocket failures, usually because they don't jettison during launch, or only partially deploy,...

FBI warns of ongoing scam that uses deepfake audio to impersonate government officials

The FBI is warning people to be vigilant of an ongoing malicious messaging campaign that uses AI-generated voice audio to impersonate government officials in...

For the first time in the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America...

xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa

Where could Grok have gotten these ideas? The treatment of white farmers in South Africa has been a hobbyhorse of South African X owner...

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