Many companies, Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm included, like to rely on their own custom ARM CPU architectures for their chips, but the CPUs and GPUs that ARM itself designs for other companies to use are still important. They let commodity chipmakers like MediaTek and Rockchip offer chips with good performance for less money, and they serve as a sort of pace car for the...
ARM’s newest CPU design wants to make throttling a thing of the past
The Arcimoto SRK electric vehicle is the most fun thing we did at CES
Meet the Arcimoto SRK, the most surprisingly fun EV we've driven in ages. Video shot/edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)
LAS VEGAS—Electric vehicles were a big thing at CES this year. Even before the show officially kicked off, Faraday Future introduced the world to its FF Zero 1 concept car, and Chevrolet let journalists (including us) get behind the wheel of its new Bolt EV....
Microsoft Selfie: Latest iOS app from Redmond does only one thing, but it does it pretty well
Microsoft has been on a roll this year with its iOS and Android development game, and is finishing the year out with an iOS-only app that does just one thing: take selfies. Microsoft Selfie, released this week, snaps, enhances and saves selfies...
A brief chat with XKCD’s Randall Munroe—the Thing Explainer explainer
The cover of the book. (credit: XKCD)
HOUSTON—I'd guess that the majority of Ars readers are familiar with XKCD, the stick-figure Web comic drawn by former NASA contractor and engineer (and now Hugo award winner) Randall Munroe. It's rare for Ars to stop by a workplace to interview a source where there aren't XKCD comic strips festooning...