Feature: State of the PC in 2015: An Ars Technica Quarterly Report
Our last quarterly special report looked at the PC industry in 2011; this one jumps into the...
Feature: Lawn warfare: Light Strike brings laser tag back home
When I think of laser tag, I think of all the times as a kid I was warned about playing with the plastic guns outside for fear that the police would see the "realistic" weapon...
Hackinations: Making any OS X app full-screenable in Lion
Today, Steve Sande begged me to add a full-screen button to Colloquy. He offered me chocolate and kittens, neither of which is particularly good for me. But he's a good guy and I like him and his wife so I went ahead and figured this out. [Editor's n...
Feature: Running high-performance neural networks on a "gamer" GPU
A recent project here at the Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris (LCMCP) wants to make high-performance scientific computing cheaper by finding new ways to squeeze performance from consumer-grade "game...
Feature: The future of lighting: walls of light, LEDs, and glowing trees
Light bulbs haven't been sexy tech since Thomas Edison's day, but innovation has come to an industry that has seen relatively little of it for a century. Today, the lighting industry is in a remarkable...
5 apps for geocaching
Although I'm much more likely to spend a lovely summer day with my butt glued to the chair working on a new TUAW post, I do enjoy the sport/hobby/game of geocaching. If you're not familiar with the term, geocaching is defined as "a global treasure h...
Feature: Big Content’s latest antipiracy weapon: extradition
As major American copyright holders continue their long war on file-sharing, the focus of the debate has increasingly shifted overseas. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun seizing the domain names of so-cal...
Mac malware ‘explosion’ missing in action
The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-...
Feature: A pound of flesh: how Cisco’s "unmitigated gall" derailed one man’s life
High-tech entrepreneur Peter Adekeye's yearlong nightmare began after he dropped his wife off at the Vancouver International airport and headed downtown to The Wedgewood, a posh boutique hotel. Inside a tasteful boardroom ...
All our Lion tips in one convenient place
First, make sure you've updated your 10.6 system before installing Lion -- there's a Migration Assistant update.
While you wait for the download, here's where to see your progress.
If you wanted to do a clean install, Macworld has some info. If y...
OS X Lion Server: Making servers accessible to all
One of the amazing things about the Lion announcement a few months ago was OS X Lion Server, which Apple said would be available for $49.99. That's the lowest cost for any version of Mac OS X Server by a wide margin, and a price point that might mak...
