Game Console Architecture In-Depth
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Ars takes you back in time and deep inside the inner workings of three popular game consoles: the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.Read More...
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Ars takes you back in time and deep inside the inner workings of three popular game consoles: the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.Read More...
The week in Kit: Netbooks über alles, with chips on the side
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Netbooks, gadgets, and gizmos abound this week on Kit, along with price cuts from AMD and new chips from Intel. Samsung displays were hot news, but OLED technology, unfortunately, remains tantalizingly out of reach.Read More...
Journals week in review: gaming from Opposable Thumbs
Saturday, September 6th, 2008PAX may be over, but the stories are still coming in. Our hands-on time with the promising Wii title The Conduit, as well as an argument over the 360's price cut and a mountain of content from PAX round out this week in game coverage. Read More... ...
Journals week in review: news from One Microsoft Way
Saturday, September 6th, 2008In this week's top Microsoft news on Ars, we cover the Gates-Seinfeld ad, The Ultimate Steal, Internet Explorer 8, the Zune, a new non-laser mouse, SkyMarket, and OneCare. See inside for details on what's new with these products.Read More...
Week in review: top news stories on Ars Technica
Saturday, September 6th, 2008It was a shiny, happy week in the world of tech news with the launch of Google Chrome and all the hype that surrounded it. We recap the week's most important stories.Read More...
Journals week in review: science from Nobel Intent
Saturday, September 6th, 2008The plans of flies, the evolution of flightlessness, and aluminum foam sandwiches all made the headlines in our little corner of the world of science.Read More...
Journals week in review: Countdown begins to Sept iPod event
Saturday, September 6th, 2008This week in the world of Apple, iPod fans got geared up after Apple sent out invites to its special event next week. Further iPod leaks, rumors about an iPhone gamepad, and an AT&T data service outage also got people fired up, among other interesting tidbits. Come check it out ...
First look: Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 officially released
Friday, September 5th, 2008Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3.1 alpha 2. This version adds support for the HTML 5 "video" element, better tab dragging, and other new features.Read More...
The CPUs of the future? Alleged Intel roadmaps leaked
Friday, September 5th, 2008Unofficial roadmaps are always fun, especially when the company is Intel, and the roadmaps in question cover quite a bit of ground. Educated guesses inside, for your Friday reading pleasure.Read More...
Consumers dig mobile broadband: 3G device ownership up 80%
Friday, September 5th, 2008Adoption of 3G in the US has surged in the past year. Thanks to more and cheaper devices, the US now has more 3G customers than Western Europe.Read More...
Michael Moore skips box office, film heads straight to ‘Net
Friday, September 5th, 2008Filmmaker Michael Moore plans to bypass movie theaters with the debut of his new film, Slacker Uprising. The movie will instead be offered online as a free thank-you to his fans, after which it will be sold on DVD. With more filmmakers experimenting with online distribution lately, major studios may ...
The Sims goes to the boardroom
Friday, September 5th, 2008Video games have come to the classroom—even to the venerable Harvard Business School. Instead of case studies, students are entering business simulations—with mixed results for the real world.Read More...
This is war: insider describes how devs punish game journos
Friday, September 5th, 2008It's not rare to hear talk about the pressure developers put on game writers for favorable coverage. What is unusual is hearing someone from the other side describe how he or she can break game writers... and why they think it's perfectly ok to do so. Read More... ...
Red Hat acquires Qumranet, will embrace KVM
Friday, September 5th, 2008Linux distributor Red Hat has acquired Qumranet, the company behind the Kernel Virtual Machine. This marks a change of strategy for Red Hat, which previously aligned itself with Xen.Read More...
NebuAd loses CEO, business model in wake of tracking furor
Friday, September 5th, 2008With the loss of its CEO and the end of most of its ISP trials, web tracking company NebuAd hopes to retool itself as a more traditional advertising company.Read More...