Beats’ new Studio Pros are its first flagship headphones since 2017
You can order the Studio Pros beginning today. | Image: Beats For the first time since 2017, Beats is announcing a brand-new pair of flagship headphones. Today, the Apple-owned company…
How Tesla almost went out of business — and then broke the auto industry
Image: Vox Media During the development of the Tesla Model S, one top engineer would tick off certain milestones in his mind whenever the tiny, almost bankrupt startup would hit…
Pikmin 4 embraces the series’ hidden horror roots
Image: Nintendo If you haven’t played a Pikmin game before, you might be surprised to learn that the series can get quite dark. Sure, it stars a bunch of adorable…
Nothing CEO Carl Pei on the Phone 2, AI, and the future of gadgets
Nothing CEO Carl Pei knows better than most how hard it is to make a dent in the hardware world. | Image: Nothing Nothing wants to invent the future. But…
Netflix just axed its basic ad-free plan in the US and UK
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge After Netflix dropped its cheapest ad-free plan in Canada last month, it’s now doing the same in the US and UK, as first…
The best entertainment of 2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. | Image: Nintendo Right now, we are absolutely spoiled for choice when it comes to entertainment. TV shows, movies, and games all…
Behind the scenes: How we host Ars Technica, part 1
Enlarge / Take a peek inside the Ars vault with us! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A bit over three years ago, just before COVID hit, we ran a…
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon
Enlarge (credit: Jacqui VanLiew/Wired) Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month, a software engineer at the company named Ben Savage introduced himself to a developer group at…
A Community of 3D Printed Homes Is Being Built for Oregon Wildfire Survivors
In September 2020, the Almeda fire swept across Oregon’s Rogue Valley, destroying more than 2,600 homes. It was the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history, and almost three years…
The self-transforming Optimus Prime now has a $1,700 dinobot friend
ME GRIMLOCK. How much would fans pay for the ultimate action figure? A company named Robosen seems determined to find out — with Transformers toys that transform themselves like they…