Picking the right duelist can be the key differential between an overwhelming victory and a crushing defeat in Marvel Rivals, as they are responsible for stacking eliminations and breaking the opposition either from vantage points or within their lines. True to that, knowing who the best in the class are is necessary to avoid headaches….
Speaking of things staying the same, Blu-rays and DVDs also won’t have their content altered after purchase, as we’ve seen happen to digital versions of media. While certainly in decline, the US Blu-ray and DVD disc market made $1.34 billion in the year ending in March 2023, according to market research group Circana. Data from…
Citing “years of investment in AI, AR, and VR,” Google is stepping into the augmented reality market once more with Android XR. It’s an operating system that Google says will power future headsets and glasses that “transform how you watch, work, and explore.” The first version you’ll see is Project Moohan, a mixed-reality headset built…
GPU power consumption numbers under load. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Power consumption is another place where the Battlemage GPU plays a lot of catch-up with Nvidia. With the caveat that software-measured power usage numbers like ours are less accurate than numbers captured with hardware tools, it looks like the B580’s power consumption, when fully loaded, consumes somewhere…
Phasmophobia‘s Winter’s Jest Christmas event is here! Much like the Halloween event before it, this festive celebration is a community event where players must work together to reach a common goal. One of these goals is to open Krampus Boxes. Finding these is easier than it seems – Kinetic Games has made it extremely easy…
YouTube TV, now one of the country’s leading cable (or cable-ish) television providers, is starting to act like it. The service told customers in an email this morning that prices are going up in the new year, from $73 per month for the Base Plan to $83 on January 13, 2025—just days after suggesting that…
The Early Access launch of Path of Exile 2 – a sequel that’s been several years in the making – has been met with a pretty fantastic reception. As well as a review score of “Very Positive” on Steam, Grinding Gears’ newest action RPG also pulled in over half a million players in just a…
DNT now more liability than help That moment, when every major browser had a Do Not Track option, was perhaps the height of DNT, and even then, there was a feeling that it could never work. Lorrie Faith Cranor, leader of the Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) that predated DNT, told Ars in 2012 that “every…
In a world where technology increasingly shapes how cities manage safety and security, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is leading the way with its groundbreaking “Carpet CCTV” project. This ambitious initiative has revolutionized public safety by combining a massive surveillance network with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, creating a system that shifts the focus from…
When most businesspeople think of videoconferencing software, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Microsoft Teams or Zoom, but there are many other choices, each with its own strengths. Sometimes the choice of what tool to use comes down to what’s standard corporate issue — more often than not, that’s Teams — but it’s…