Screenless GPS: Slate Auto says, "Remember the road atlas"

Screenless GPS: Slate Auto says, "Remember the road atlas"

fivenewscrypto    novembre 15, 2026   

Whether it's nostalgia or a sense that technology has gotten a bit too pervasive, there’s no denying that Slate Auto appears to be tuned into the particular moment. The startup has a simple pitch: an affordable electric truck with just the basics, leaving owners to DIY and BYOD for everything else, all for a sub-$25,000 starting price.

Among the things Slate does without is an embedded infotainment system. The small digital display on the dashboard that shows your speed and range is also where the backup camera appears if you engage reverse, and there are two USB-C ports that provide power but not connectivity, and that’s that. But there is a solution to getting lost, and it's called “Screenless GPS.” Even though we don’t have a Slate truck to test it with, the OEM sent us a unit to review.

That’s right, it’s a good old spiral-bound road atlas! “We believe you should use the devices you know and love,” Slate says, and it reckons that maps worked just fine for past generations, so they should still work now.

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Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029

Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029

fivenewscrypto    novembre 15, 2026   

ANTALYA, Turkey—Amid upbeat green-tech pep talks and notices for happy hours at the annual United Nations COP31 climate change conference on Thursday, two new reports offered a stark reminder of how far the world remains from containing global warming.

Climate Action Tracker, a nonprofit group that analyzes climate policies, found that the planet is still on track to warm nearly 5° Fahrenheit by 2100, a rise that would devastate coral reefs, disrupt agriculture and forests and melt most of the world’s ice. In a separate bulletin, the European Union’s Copernicus climate change service reported that global warming has accelerated significantly since the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

When the Paris agreement was adopted, the average global temperature was projected to surpass the pact’s long-term threshold of 2.7° Fahrenheit above the preindustrial average around 2045. After another decade of global climate summits, warming is now projected to cross that benchmark as soon as 2029, according to Copernicus.

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Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron

Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron

fivenewscrypto    novembre 14, 2026   

Welcome to Edition 9.19 of the Rocket Report! Will something historic happen this weekend? No orbital rocket has ever been fully recovered with the intent of reusing all of its components. But that's just what SpaceX is going to try to do with a Starship launch on Friday, and an upper stage landing attempt 22.5 hours later on Saturday afternoon, local time. Ars will be on hand in Starbase, Texas, to provide coverage of it all.

As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Electron set for milestone launch. The next launch of Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle is due to lift off from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand on November 14 at 5:30 UTC. This mission will serve as Electron’s 100th overall mission—a notable milestone for the small rocket that first flew in 2017, NASASpaceflight.com reports.

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Specialized’s Tarmac SL9 S-Level is built to wreck your Zone 2 ride

Specialized’s Tarmac SL9 S-Level is built to wreck your Zone 2 ride

fivenewscrypto    novembre 14, 2026   

I love a good Zone 2 ride. There’s nothing like getting on the bike, settling into a groove, and letting the miles (and hours) flow by. But sometimes when I hopped on the Specialized Tarmac SL9 S-Level, Zone 2 would turn into a tempo ride. It was like having a little imp—the stereotype dressed in red with the pitchfork—on my left shoulder whispering into my ear: “Go fast. This bike was built to go fast. Speed is good. You can do a Zone 2 ride tomorrow.” Normally, I'd count on the good imp—the dude with the harp and wings—on my right shoulder to restrain these urges. But the Tarmac is so seductive that he would just shrug and say “he’s got a point.” And in a moment of weakness, I would drop the hammer and head into the red, just because the SL9 makes that so rewarding.

The Tarmac SL9 is Specialized’s aero road bike, with the S-Level sitting just below the S-Works in Specialized’s top tier of carbon, aero road bikes, where it replaced the Tarmac SL8 Pro. After it got an update this year, I spent several weeks riding it, putting nearly 1,000 miles on it

Specialized offers the Tarmac SL9 in four models, all available with SRAM and Shimano drivetrains (Ars tested the SRAM version). Notably, you don't need to buy the top-of-the-line bike to get the top-of-the-line groupset. Here's the breakdown of the Tarmac SL9 lineup (note that the Shimano versions of the Expert is 20 g lighter and Comp is 70 grams heavier than the SRAM versions):

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In reversal, American Cancer Society urges routine prostate cancer screening

In reversal, American Cancer Society urges routine prostate cancer screening

fivenewscrypto    novembre 14, 2026   

In a significant update to its guidelines for prostate cancer screening, the American Cancer Society is now recommending that men get routinely screened for prostate cancer with a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test.

Men at average risk should get a PSA test every two years from age 50 to 69, according to the new guidelines released Thursday.

Men considered at high risk due to race and family history should start testing earlier, at 45, and most are recommended to get tested every year. Specifically, yearly testing starting at age 45 is recommended for all Black men, who have higher rates of prostate cancer. Non-Black men should also get yearly testing starting at 45 if a close relative was diagnosed with prostate cancer before age 65, or if more than one of their relatives has had prostate cancer. On the other hand, if only one close relative was diagnosed with prostate cancer and it was diagnosed at age 65 or older, non-Black men in this case should start PSA screening at 45, but are recommended to get testing only every two years.

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Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud

Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud

fivenewscrypto    novembre 14, 2026   

Drone and missile strikes have inflicted unprecedented damage on data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East this year, disrupting cloud services for millions of people and permanently deleting some Amazon Web Services customer data. This trend represents a new concern for Big Tech companies—but also for governments and everyone else who depends on common digital services in modern life.

To explore what this all means for modern society’s reliance on cloud resilience, I will be hosting a live conversation titled "Drone attacks and data centers: New Risks for Big Tech" on Tuesday, November 17 at 1 pm ET with Joseph Jarnecki, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a UK defense and security think tank. He leads RUSI’s work on how cloud services factor into national security and defense, along with tech sovereignty efforts.

Jarnecki has done extensive research on how Ukraine strengthened its cloud resilience with Western partners despite facing both cyberattacks and kinetic attacks at the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, and explored what that means for NATO and European governments’ cloud adoption plans.

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The Elder Scrolls' most obscure adventure gets a 4K PC makeover

The Elder Scrolls' most obscure adventure gets a 4K PC makeover

fivenewscrypto    novembre 14, 2026   

So, you think you're an Elder Scrolls superfan? You say you've been there since The Elder Scrolls Arena on MS-DOS and have logged hundreds of hours in The Elder Scrolls Online? You say you've bought all of the roughly 5,000 re-releases and remasters of Skyrim that have been made available in the last 15 years?

Tell me, then: What do you think of The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey?

What's that? You've never played Shadowkey? You weren't there day one back in 2004, Nokia N-Gage in hand, ready to experience the game's 176 x 208 resolution mobile hack-and-slash RPG combat for yourself? And you call yourself a real Elder Scrolls fan?

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