Paul Sutter    Need a pick me up Consider these cheery possibilities.

Scharon Harding    Here are upcoming computer screens with features that weren’t around last year.

Stephen Clark    Starship will test its payload deployment mechanism on its seventh test flight.

David Crawshaw    Generative models can be powerfully useful if you’re willing to adapt your approach.

Eric Berger    No. should come as no surprise, but we bet you won’t guess no. .

Tim Stevens    Steve Young’s passion built a business that keeps historic tables running.

Jennifer Ouellette    Beyond flint knapping and tossing spears with atlatls, Kent State University’s Metin Eren has a vision for his field’s future.

Dan Goodin    Just in time for holiday tech support sessions, here’s what to know about passkeys.

Ashley Belanger    Advocates say tech workers movements got too big to ignore in .

Kevin Purdy    The games that found us in , from space sims to backyard survival.

Kevin Purdy    How I tackled takeout, spices, and meal ideas with spreadsheets and Glide.

Benj Edwards    What do eating rocks, rat genitals, and Willy Wonka have in common AI, of course.

Eric Bangeman    Ars looks back at the top stories of the year.

Jennifer Ouellette    From wacky crime capers and dystopian video game adaptions to sweeping historical epics, had a little of everything

Jennifer Ouellette    This year’s list features quite a bit of horror mixed in with the usual blockbuster fare plus smaller hidden gems.

Kyle Orland    A relatively light year still had its fair share of interactive standouts.

Timothy B. Lee    Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That’s not great.

Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine    When the Sun doesn’t shine and the wind is calm, humankind still needs power.

Jon Brodkin    Brendan Carr backs Trump’s war against media, but revoking licenses won’t be easy.

Scharon Harding    I do fear that the pressure to make better TVs will be lost...