3+ hour, 21+ min ago  (27+ words) Sure, it's cheesy in many respects, but its central mythology still resonates even decades later. See full article... There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (597+ words) One of the first controversies of its kind. Shy Girl, a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was one of those buzzy books that leapt from self-published prominence into full-on trade publication. Until yesterday, that is, when publisher Hachette pulled the…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (67+ words) Sure they don't promise to do it; it's just built into the system and folks expect it. If they promise to cover something, and then don't, thats illegal. Or they're paying out the nose for whatever the ACA is or…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1857+ words) Ars speaks with a linguist about the ease with which Grace and Rocky communicate. The film adaptation of Andy Weir's novel Project Hail Mary hits general release today, March 20, and it's great'go see it! Though a little light on the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (54+ words) Quality Hard SF more often than not has a handwavy premise, e.g. the Epstein Drive in The Expanse, or the intensity of the dust storm in The Martian. The key is following internal logic based on that ... A Project Hail Mary…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (248+ words) For years and years mobile gaming has gotten a bad wrap, and maybe rightly so. Most games did not compare at all to what you could find on console or PC, many had ads all over, and even the more…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (229+ words) VR will be on life support while mobile remains the focus, though. The dream of the metaverse may have died for now, but Meta has decided it's not'completely giving up on the VR experience in Horizon Worlds, the virtual worlds…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (245+ words) Full-magazine reloads throw out muscle memory in favor of "higher stakes" decisions. For decades now, Counter-Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, though, Valve announced that it had…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (524+ words) Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. She has been writing professionally about... We've got…...

5+ day, 9+ min ago  (338+ words) War feeds on itself. The more I fight, the more our enemies fight back." Warner Bros. just dropped a broody and haunting extended teaser for Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part 3, the highly anticipated third film in the director's acclaimed franchise'the last…...