‘I never said fast or slow’: Trump has vague timeline for ‘sand and death’ Syria withdrawal

President Donald Trump told reporters that his planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria would take place over an unspecified “period of time,” adding that previous reports of a withdrawal within four months were false. The president announced the pullout from Syria on Christmas Eve, leaving Turkish forces to “eradicate whatever is left of ISIS” […]

Magic Leap finally announces a headset… but it’s vague, rendered in Photoshop

Enlarge / Say hello (or “yikes”) to Magic Leap One. (credit: Magic Leap) Fans and hopefuls in the VR and AR spaces have long wondered when Magic Leap would finally reveal anything to cash in on years of hype and $ 1.9 billion in investments. Most people who saw the company’s first product announcement on Wednesday […]

NY-DC Hyperloop tunnel? Musk tweets about vague “verbal govt approval”

Enlarge (credit: The Boring Company) Elon Musk has been talking about The Boring Company, his tunnel-digging endeavor, for months now. Today, he tweeted: “Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.” Ars has reached out to Musk directly and to The Boring Company’s media […]

Zuckerberg’s vague new mission for Facebook

Facebook had already run into rocky territory over the past year, stumbling over censoring historically-significant content and wrestling with its own role in the election, before Trump came to office. Amid an ‘America First’ administration raising uncertainty about how the US fits in with the rest of the world, the social network’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]