The triumphant return of Ars Technica mugs, T-shirts

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Every geek needs two things to start the morning off right: a quality coffee mug and a fresh T-shirt. Fortunately, Ars Technica now sells both, so you can leap from your bed to confront the forces of file corruption, homeopathy, and state-sponsored malware in style with some sharp Ars Technica merch! […]

The 2017 Ars Technica gadget gift guide: Office and desk tech edition

Enlarge (credit: Mark Walton) It’s the holidays, which means it’s once again time to rack your brain in search of the right gifts for the right people. If someone on your list is into tech, though, we’ve got your back. For this year’s edition of the Ars Technica holiday gift guide, we’re breaking down our […]

Mug shots: How Ars Technica editors prefer to stay caffeinated

Enlarge / Everyone’s cabinets/cupboards basically look like this, right? It’s Thanksgiving in the US, and much of our staff is at work in a kitchen instead of an office space. As is becoming Ars tradition, we use such holiday times to provide a rare glimpse into life around the Orbital HQ: see prior peeks via […]

Ars Technica supports net neutrality

Enlarge (credit: Aurich / Thinkstock) You may have noticed that Ars looks a bit different today. We’re standing in solidarity with the Internet’s “Day of Action,” in which thousands of companies and websites are protesting plans by the Federal Communications Commission to dismantle Obama-era net neutrality rules. We hope it doesn’t happen—and that the FCC doesn’t give […]

How a Slack UI change sparked the Ars Technica civil war

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Something strange happened at work the other day: internecine warfare broke out over emoji use on Slack. The psycho-nerdism level was at 11, and it happened among a geeky staff that included someone who had recently merged a toy teddy bear with Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service. The things you can do with that […]

Ars Technica Live: Why it’s important to defend hackers, even the not nice ones

Ars Live #12, filmed by Chris Schodt and produced by Jennifer Hahn. (video link) On June 13, 2017, Mark Jaffe is set to appear before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to argue on behalf of his client, journalist Matthew Keys. And at the most recent Ars Live event, Jaffe spoke […]

Get 20 percent off the Audio Technica turntable, just in time for Record Store Day

In the age of digital music and online streaming, physical music seems to have been largely left by the wayside. However, that hasn’t stopped audio enthusiasts from rekindling a public interest in vinyl records, and there’s a wide variety of turntables on the market today ranging from entry-level players to advanced models that cost thousands. […]