The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026
Flipping through the highlights in and around Pinball Expo 2026.
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Features
Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production
Slate’s first showroom sells the promise. Mass production will determine the rest.
Eric Bangeman
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DIY VR: How to build your own headset, and why you probably won’t want to
A primer on the joys and pains of building your own head-mounted display.
Tim Stevens
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Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
Android laptops are here, but Google has a lot of work ahead to make them good.
Ryan Whitwam
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OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.
Ashley Belanger
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Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
Jeremy Hsu
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A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she’s a Kalshi lobbyist
Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now.
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If you’re looking, here’s a “good deal” for NASA and the European Space Agency
“We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US.”
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Most Read
Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of “mechanical” switches
Ars Technica’s guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
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TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
Can it be Mini LED without a FALD backlight?
Scharon Harding
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NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?
Eric Berger
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Interview: Firefox’s chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
Mozilla’s Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.
Samuel Axon
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Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out.”
Ashley Belanger
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.”
Beth Mole
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Review: Apple’s hyper-pricey M5 Ultra Mac Studio made me into a vibe coder
Usable local AI is a lot of fun, but how much would you pay for it?
Andrew Cunningham
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A new report from Europe raises serious alarms about orbital collisions
“I think we are going to lose the ability to use certain orbits.”
Eric Berger
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Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough
The M4 Mac mini was one of Apple’s best values. The $899 M6 mini, not so much.
Andrew Cunningham
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macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review
It’s both a “Snow Leopard update” and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.
Andrew Cunningham
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Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review
Valve’s new $1,059 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR “revolution.”
Kyle Orland
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Could United Launch Alliance’s money problems finally force its owners to sell?
ULA is preparing to resume launching the Vulcan rocket in the coming weeks.
Stephen Clark
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Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
Ashley Belanger
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The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
Petala Ironcloud
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Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
Fairphone’s CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
Ryan Whitwam
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Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and “24/7″ lectures.
Jennifer Ouellette
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
Dan Goodin
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Without new landers or rovers, it’s helicopters or bust for NASA’s Mars program
NASA’s cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn’t include the helicopters.
Stephen Clark
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Pocket’s AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
Interactive mobile “gizmos” are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta’s platform.
Kyle Orland
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Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day
James Cameron’s 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
Dan Goodin
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Xtracycle’s Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes
A steel frame cargo bike with a unique twist: You can let it choose your gear.
John Timmer
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Review: Chuwi’s $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo
The Unibook is a weird entry-level laptop for people with patience.
Andrew Cunningham
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As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
Ashley Belanger
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Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?
Google’s new Pixels make some compromises but still manage to be good phones.
Ryan Whitwam
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Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis
What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?
Eric Berger
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price
Samsung didn’t have to change much this year because its hardware is just that good.
Ryan Whitwam
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
Dan Goodin
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