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Review: Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 is a powerful laptop with heat problems
Laptop’s performance improves quite a bit if you’re willing to let it run hot.
Holiday reading: 19 book recommendations from the Ars staff
From new to old, nonfiction to coffee-table books—we give some recs for your TBR list.
The hand-cranked calculator invented by a Nazi concentration camp prisoner
For two decades, the Curta was the best portable calculator in the world.
Review: Halo Infinite’s campaign finishes the fight—but arrives in tatters
Great balance between classic and new ideas marred by serious technical issues.
Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential
“It could provide a revolutionary new way of exploring these worlds.”
Why the [expletive] can’t we travel back in time?
If the inability to time travel were a fundamental part of our Universe, you’d expect equally fundamental physics behind that rule.
All the best Cyber Monday 2021 deals we can find so far [Updated]
We’re sifting through the Cyber Monday junk to find the deals that are actually deals.
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We’ve cut through the Black Friday noise to find the deals worth your time.
HP Chromebook x2 review: A price cut away from great
Chrome OS in a sensible form factor.