Based on the experience of Ars readers Chai Trakulthai and Laura Buddine, Lenovo overstated both assurances. The pair recently examined a $550 Lenovo G510 notebook purchased by a neighbor, and their experience wasn't consistent with two of Lenovo's talking points.

Researchers have demonstrated a long-lasting device for making hydrogen from sunlight and water—but funding is running out.

On January 15, 2014, Alex Honnold free-soloed El Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) in El Portrero Chico, Mexico in a little over 3 hours. The climb rises 2,500 feet to the summit of El Toro. It could be the most difficult rope-less climb in history.

An investigation is underway after a canine competitor died the day after taking part in Crufts, one of the world's most prestigious dog shows. An autopsy indicates he was poisoned. Three-year-old Irish setter Thendara Satisfaction -- known to his owners as Jagger -- took second prize in his class at the event in Birmingham, central England, on Thursday. But just a day later, after returning home to Belgium, he became ill. Owner-breeder Dee Millington-Bott told CNN Jagger...

Jenna Spesard and Guillaume Dutilh wanted to live and travel on their own terms, so they saved up some money, built a tiny house on wheels and hit the road with their dog, Salies. The couple of two-and-a-half years have now been travelling around the US for six months, funding their nomadic lifestyle through photography and writing.

An abandoned farm house in the middle of a wheat field. Photo by Jeff Edes.

A 350 square feet home with reclaimed pine interior in Niles, Michigan. Designed by Northworks Architects and Planners.

Former Kremlin insider and critic of Vladimir Putin who was due to take part in march on Sunday was reportedly killed near the Kremlin.

Actor Harrison Ford was seriously injured on Thursday in the crash of a small airplane on a Los Angeles golf course.

Researchers wanting to know more about the influences of multiple stars on exoplanets have come up with a new case study: a planet in a four-star system.

People could feel the effects of the chemical fire at Port Metro Vancouver up to 24 hours after being exposed, health officials warn.

Since it hit Tumblr yesterday, the image below has started an internet schism that may never be healed. Some maniacs, it seems, see the dress as gold and white, while other completely reasonable people see it as blue and black.

Check out the world's tiniest rodeo! Photographer captured rare footage of a frog riding a beetle.

The house stands on the island of Vega in the Norwegian archipelago not far from the polar circle.

If you live in the U.S., you don't need a passport to see what mother nature has to offer.

Nowadays Arabia is a fierce desert, but it was once densely vegetated, and could have been a home to the first humans that left Africa.

Swedish kids growing up in families that wash their dishes by hand are less likely to develop certain allergies than those in families with dishwashers, a study suggests. But there may be more to it.

Last week, the nonprofit reality-television project Mars One announced its selection of 100 volunteers who may get one-way tickets to Mars. It’s only the latest in decades of celebrated Mars colonization projects. And just like all the rest, this one is unlikely to ever happen, experts say. “It looks like a scam,” John Logsdon, a space policy expert at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., told BuzzFeed News.

A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“ has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Rober

A 204 square feet lofted tiny house on wheels in Carlsbad, California. Built by Tiny Treasure Homes.

Design office Snøhetta and the research center on zero emission buildings partnered up to realize a pilot house near the Norwegian town of Larvik.

Using other social media, snapzu seems notably lacking in the social department. Maybe I am out of the loop and haven't found the place where people discuss? Or is Snapzu simply more akin to pintrest or stumbleupon than reddit or facebook, more a place to post links than to talk? Of course people make the odd comment, but I haven't seen much in the way of conversation here.

Natalie's 260 square feet tiny home in the mountains of North Carolina.

At the highest temperature, the physics of our universe breaks down. Learn how high we can go before that happens.

Thin strips of beef cooked until crispy and coated in a sweet glaze.

By Amila Omerika.

There’s a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” in which Jack D. Ripper, an American general who’s gone rogue and ordered a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, unspools his paranoid worldview — and the explanation for why he drinks “only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol” — to Lionel Mandrake, a dizzy-with-anxiety group captain in the Royal Air Force. Ripper: “Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?”

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

This is a real video performance, a slow motion video, a sequence map with a traveling in front of 80 extras placed on 80 meters along a little road, lost in an industrial area. Filmed at 1000 frames/second with a Phantom flex 4k from a car driven at 50km/h, the shooting took 5 seconds for a 3'30 video: a living and dreamlike mural.

'Water of Life' by Daniel Kordan.