Recent stories by Ars Contributors
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How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world
1987's Acorn Archimedes was the first production RISC-based personal computer.
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As the world quieted down in 2020, Raspberry Shakes listened
Humble Raspberry Pis helped scientists track the seismic noise people stopped making in 2020.
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Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020)
Famously, Apple’s Quadra 700 once helped track dinosaurs. Is it stuck in amber nowadays?
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“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C
Today, C may be a lingua franca among programmers. This is its (abridged) history.
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The ungentle joy of spider sex
Some spiders pair puny males with gigantic females, making mating both tricky and dangerous.