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Light, shadow, reflections, and terror: How a scary game does scary lighting
Our behind-the-scenes look at Callisto Protocol continues with a look at terrifying visuals.
Network-crashing leap seconds to be abandoned by 2035, for at least a century
Our 50-year chronological rounding-error nightmare will soon be over.
Ubisoft comes crawling back to Steam after years on Epic Games Store
In 2019, company said Valve's 30 percent commissions were "unrealistic."
Musk: Paid checkmarks won’t return until Twitter can stop impersonation
Signal contradicts Musk, says it’s not helping to encrypt Twitter DMs.
How Cupra made an electric hot hatch alternative to the Volkswagen ID.3
Cupras drive very differently from VWs; Cupra's head of R&D explains how.
NASA’s new rocket blows the doors off its mobile launch tower
"This is a dream for many of us who work at NASA."
Nintendo goes after fan-made custom Steam “icons” with DMCA takedowns
SteamGridDB images for five Switch games could "lead to consumer confusion."
Meta cracks down on teen “sextortion” on Facebook, Instagram
Teens will finally have a way to proactively stop the spread of intimate images.
Calling all space nerds: New documentary Good Night Oppy will give you all the feels
Ars chats with director Ryan White about recreating Mars from rover's perspective, and more.
Pfizer CEO claims 400% price hike on COVID vaccines will be “free”
Insurance companies will pay more, potentially leading to higher premiums.
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser.
Google’s Black Friday deals: It’s hard to say no to a $300 Pixel 6a
Google's Black Friday deals start a week early, with some tantalizing discounts.
3D for everyone? Nvidia’s Magic3D can generate 3D models from text
New AI aims to democratize 3D content creation, no modeling skills required.
LG reveals vibrating speakers as ultra-thin alternative to traditional car audio
Is 10 percent the thickness of a traditional car speaker, LG says.
Twitter reverses Trump ban; Trump refuses to return
Musk relies on poll result—not content moderation council—to make the decision.
Domino’s buys 800 Chevrolet Bolt EVs as pizza delivery vehicles
After experimenting with sidewalk robot deliveries, the pizza giant is getting EVs.
Orion soars around the Moon with a lonely Earth in the distance
The silvery spacecraft is on its way to an elongated orbit around the Moon.
A history of ARM, part 2: Everything starts to come together
What had started as twelve people and a dream was now a billion-dollar company.
“Just a bunch of idiots having fun”—a photo history of the LAN party
An interview with Merritt K, chronicler of a crucial, awkward time in PC gaming.
The World Cup ball has the aerodynamics of a champion
A sports physicist breaks down the Al Rihla, the official ball of the World Cup.
Binance has a plan to save crypto—if it’s not too late
Crypto exchanges want to prove that the market can thrive after the FTX collapse.
The road to low-carbon concrete
Humanity's love affair with cement and concrete results in massive CO emissions.
New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled
Galactica language model generated convincing text about fact and nonsense alike.
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11.25 years in prison for Theranos fraud
Holmes is expected to appeal.
ID.me lied to IRS about unemployment fraud, average wait times, House Dems say
ID.me said $414 billion was lost—10 times higher than feds' estimate.
Researchers build a working camera out of atomically thin semiconductors
Sheet of atoms works similarly to silicon but has some unique properties.
Nvidia releases RTX 4090 and 4080 firmware update to fix display output bug
Update can be installed on both Founders Edition and third-party GeForce GPUs.
Musk emails remaining Twitter staff to find “anyone who actually writes software”
Musk email: "Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor."
Sony’s Miles Morales was at least as good as Spider-Man, and now it’s on PC, too
Graphical enhancements and a focus on varied input methods headline the port.
FCC unveils big update to broadband map—and wants you to help correct errors
Map is better but not perfect—look up your address to see if there are mistakes.
There’s a “new” Atari arcade game, and I can’t put it down
Atari 50's "Vctr Sctr" is an addictive love letter to a long-lost arcade era.
The 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6’s interior lighting might cheer you up
Hyundai's UX team studied the effect lighting color combinations have on mood.
We now have a pretty good idea what the “Connecticut vampire” looked like
Targeted whole genome analysis strengthens case that he was a man named John Barber.
Twitter mayhem, staff cuts have advertisers bailing on the platform
Twitter advertisers pausing ads over brand safety, cybersecurity concerns.
Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs
Musk jokes through crisis, says record numbers "logging in to see if Twitter is dead."
Eli Lilly CEO says insulin tweet flap “probably” signals need to bring down cost
"We’re obviously not the only insulin company. But the tropes go on," he said.
Twitter’s moderation system is in tatters
After Elon Musk’s staff cuts, there are hardly any moderators left to talk to.
10 years later, the Wii U is still deeply weird—and we love it
Oddly named console made up for its mistakes with infinite quirky charm.
Rocket Report: Long March 6A breaks apart after launch; SLS soars in debut
"The relevant incident will not affect the Chinese space station..."
Lost 8th-century Japanese medical text by Buddhist monk has been found
The surviving 766 prescriptions include recipes for soups, powders, pills, and ointments.
Meta keeps booting small-business owners for being hacked on Facebook
Sophisticated hack hits small-business owners ahead of the holidays.
Strange black hole merger may have been a rare random encounter
Instead of an orbiting binary, two black holes may have met by chance.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet deliver a fully open world beset by technical problems
Choppy frame rates and animations distract from an entertaining entry.
Waymo shows off its next truly driverless prototype car
The Waymo and Geely collaboration features four sliding doors and no controls.
SpaceX faces labor charges after firing employees who criticized Elon Musk
Employees wrote letter calling Musk a "source of distraction and embarrassment."
Study: AirPods Pro are this close to being full-fledged hearing aids
Apple's social isolation sticks are useful for low to moderate hearing loss.
Feds arrest Russians accused of running the largest pirated e-book library
Textbook piracy platform Z-Library sunk by popular TikTok hashtag.
The next Toyota Prius has been revealed, and it’s even more efficient
It's quicker and slightly more economical, but we're still waiting on pricing.
Cable company’s accidental email to rival discusses plan to block competition
Cable One: Fighting publicly funded rivals one of our "most important tasks."
Is Ubisoft thwarting cheaters with “100 versions” of Rainbow Six Siege?
New versions "every two hours" could feature small, obfuscating code changes.
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