But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Is anti-Semitism in American political discourse actually just a carefully cultivated deception? Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X revealed the location of every account on the site, and the results ...

The Washington Wizards’ painfully slow start to the season has exposed many fundamental issues within the team. While their defensive breakdowns have grabbed much of the attention, their offense is ...

PHILADELPHIA - When asked about Saquon Barkley’s illegal shift penalty on a key fourth-down conversion attempt in the fourth quarter of a disappointing 21-17 collapse against the Denver Broncos, ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

On Wednesday reports emerged that the NCAA has eliminated the spring transfer portal period and is moving to a single window in the winter. Precise dates will be formalized in October but the proposed ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

The Trump administration and its allies are upending American higher education: freezing funding, launching investigations, ratcheting up taxes, and threatening to do much more. Not so long ago this ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Malik Beasley thrived on the basketball court last season for the Detroit Pistons while coping with a federal gambling investigation and more than $8 million worth of financial problems that include ...