F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now

Also, F1’s final sprint saw our first real wet racing of the year.
Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air

The Fitbit Edge offers more than the Air, but it’s not a real smartwatch.
Inside Amazon’s robotic arms race and what it means for the future of human work

The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US and Chin…
Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind

Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags. Now it’s a sprint to the…
The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests

In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-like canopies of mature growth. Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a se…
Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films

Alex Gibney’s provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there’s not much new here for Ars readers.
Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC

Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One
One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.

Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone

Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.