Gadget News

Another week done, another bunch of gadgets to ogle. Today's big news was the iPad Air, but that's not the only gizmo game in town. Here's what you can get your grubby, sticky-from-Halloween-candy hands on.

The Real Slim Shady's back with another album, titled The Marshall Mathers LP2. And if you're a fan of Eminem and have access to iTunes Radio, then there's a way to listen to his latest work in full without going the, we...

In a planned mission, three ISS crew members took their Soyuz out for a ride around the ISS. Why? Did they want to show Sandra Bullock's character in Gravity how it's really done? Not exactly. Instead, it's actually the ...

It has on-screen buttons, tiny bezels, KitKat, and an approximately 8" screen.     

The Microsoft Surface Pro 2 is significantly more battery-efficient than it was when it first launched on Oct. 22, thanks to a firmware update pushed by Microsoft shortly thereafter. It’s a whopping 25% more battery-ef...

Sunday morning at 6:45AM, folks on the east coast will have a chance to see a very rare hybrid solar eclipse. The last one occurred 150 years ago, and the next one won't come until the year 2172, so make sure you set you...

We hope you didn't wear out your sweet tooth this Halloween, because our host Brad Molen is joined by Android and Me's Taylor Wimberly for a big bite of Android 4.4 KitKat. A new Google OS wouldn't mean as much without a...

Big goings on this week. New gadgets, new airline laws, new mysterious barges popping up on both coasts. Here's the best things we wrote this week.

Just as we reported it vowing 16 months ago, Google today has pulled the plug on iGoogle and buried it without a funeral. The Web portal that let users customize a unique start page for the Web with RSS feeds and widgets...

Miles is a great kid fighting a courageous battle against leukemia. But for one special day in November, he'll be fighting crime as Batkid, riding alongside his hero Batman and protecting the streets of San Francisco.

AudioBox.fm, the streaming media aggregator that combines SkyDrive, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and other streaming media services under one roof–along with the files on your hard drive and those you upload to the Audi...

There goes any feeling of accomplishment us grown-ups had today. Ten-year-old Nathan Gray just discovered a supernova, unseating his own sister as the world's youngest to do so. Talk about sibling rivalries.

If your growing weariness of being constantly tethered to the internet has become overwhelming, it might be time to scrub yourself from the social media sphere altogether. Here's how you can become a ghost on the Interne...

In a report overseen by Microsoft, the Windows XP operating system was found to be more than five times as vulnerable to viruses as Windows 8 is. Out of every 1,000 computers scanned, 9.1 Windows XP SP3 systems were infe...

A rogue computer program broke loose and spread uncontrollably. By the end of its rampage, the virus conquered a full ten percent of the world's internet-connected machines. An unfathomable 6,000 computers had crashed.

Good coffee tastes amazing, can be a great comfort, and is fun and easy to make well with the right tools. Coffee is also good for you, having been shown to make you smarter, help you lose weight, keep you alive longer a...

Minecraft players who want to share their elaborate creations through internet video won't need special broadcasting tools for much longer -- Mojang and Twitch have revealed plans for native livestreaming support in Mac ...

Windows 8.1 doubled its market share among operating systems in its first half-month on the market, according to a new report by web analytics firm Net Applications. The OS rose from 0.87% market share to 1.72%, for a 0....

Also nuclear (patent) war showed up on Ars' headlines this week.     

Autumn is the best season for tech lovers. As the leaves fall off the trees, great new gadgets fall from the sky. We raked through the pile of new gadgets that came out in October. Here are our favorites.

Motorola says Android 4.4 Kit Kat is coming. If you've got a Moto X on any carrier, or a Verizon-serviced Droid Ultra, Maxx or Mini, the company says you'll get the newest Android OS soon. [Motorola via The Verge]

China Telecom's obsession with Samsung's luxury clamshells isn't dwindling any time soon. In fact, the two companies have just launched a new model, the SCH-W2014, at their annual "Heart Of The World" charity concert in ...