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Keychron Q2 mechanical keyboard review: Enthusiast luxury at a decent price
An elevated typing experience for a digestible price.
The US plans to reduce roadway deaths with smarter road design
A shift in focus from drivers to the role of street layouts and local policies.
Apple now allows unlisted apps on the App Store
It's not self-serve, though; you have to fill out a request form.
Gov’t watchdog slams federal COVID response, puts HHS on “high risk” list
Of 115 recommendations for improvement, HHS has not addressed 72 of them.
Spotify support buckles under complaints from angry Neil Young fans
Young: Spotify represents 60 percent of my streams.
Seagate starts shipping enormous 22TB hard drives to “some customers”
The biggest drives most people can buy top out at 20TB.
First “OLED EX” TVs announced, promising brighter high-contrast picture
The 4K OLED807 also goes up to 120 Hz and updates AI features.
The last of Mars’ liquid waters flowed about 2 billion years ago
Salt deposits on the red planet hint at where and when Mars went dry.
Google says Android tablets are the future, starts staffing up new division
Can Google invest in Android tablets longterm, or is this another temporary interest?
Dozens of states side with Epic in Apple App Store appeal
“Apple’s conduct has harmed and is harming mobile app developers.”
Another launch tower built for the SLS rocket has “encountered some challenges”
NASA has issued a "second letter of concern" to Bechtel.
2FA app with 10,000 Google Play downloads loaded well-known banking trojan
2FA Authenticator offered real 2FA functionality, but it came with strings attached.
Rocket Report: NASA boosts commercial launch, another Chinese Falcon 9?
Also, we enjoy more renderings of Chinese rockets that look like a Falcon 9.
Exploring mind-bending questions about reality and virtual worlds via The Matrix
NYU philosopher David Chalmers chats with Ars about his new book Reality+.
Microsoft fends off record-breaking 3.47Tbps DDoS attack
While a crude brute-force attack, DDoSes are growing ever more potent.
Biologists name new species of branching worm after legendary King Ghidorah
Only two other species of these rare, curious beasts have been discovered to date.
Omicron-specific vaccine boosters are now in humans as trials begin
The boosters may be ready in March, but what comes next is anyone's guess.
Apple just had the biggest holiday quarter in its history
The one exception was the iPad, which lost 14% revenue YOY.
New Star Wars 1313 footage reveals the (canceled) Boba Fett game we always wanted
A major missing link to a canceled Star Wars TV series called Underworld.
macOS 12.3 will break cloud-storage features used by Dropbox and OneDrive
Betas add Universal Control for macOS and FaceID support for face masks in iOS.
Citizens of countries that rebate carbon taxes aren’t aware of the rebate
Intended to make carbon taxes more popular, the scheme doesn't make an impression.
FCC aims to stop broadband bill shock, reviving plan nixed by Ajit Pai
Required consumer labels to include price, fees, data caps, and performance data.
Google relents: Legacy G Suite users will be able to migrate to free accounts
Last week, Google essentially told free G Suite users "pay up or lose your account."
Plant-based diets + rewilding provides “massive opportunity” to cut CO2
This "double-dividend" can help rich nations significantly cut their emissions.
Particulate pollution is killing older Americans, even at legal levels
Small reductions in PM2.5 pollution could save over 140,000 lives.
Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III unearthed at Luxor
The sphinxes are the latest finds to emerge from a 25-year restoration project.
RGB keyboard feature renews hope for RTX Chromebooks
Hopefully, RTX on Arm isn't too far behind.
Porsche’s new hybrid Le Mans car breaks cover as testing begins
It's not due to race until 2023, but Porsche is getting an early start.
Spotify says it will remove Neil Young’s music instead of dropping Joe Rogan
Spotify "regrets Neil's decision"; Young objected to COVID misinformation.
Omicron’s wave is at least 386% taller than delta’s—and it’s crushing hospitals
Omicron wave's hospital admissions are 76% higher than delta's, CDC reports.
Android malware can factory-reset phones after draining bank accounts
First found in 2019, Brata keeps adding new forms of malice to its toolbox.
AG says he forced Amazon to shut down “unlawful price-fixing” program
Amazon suspended program amid investigation, is now forbidden from restarting it.
Valve confirms Steam Deck shipment, review dates: By the end of February
If your preorder landed in the first wave, Valve has payment instructions for you.
US Air Force spends $60 million on supersonic commercial airliner
"Overture would offer the valuable advantage of time."
Apple fixes major bugs in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS software updates
There aren't any new features, but these issues had to be addressed expediently.
Huawei manages to launch the P50 internationally—at ridiculous prices
It's 35% more than Samsung, with no Google apps and a murky update future.
Major Windows 11 update, with taskbar tweaks and Android apps, coming in February
Notepad and Media Player redesigns will also be released to the public.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a breath of fresh air for a stale franchise
Legends rethinks the series' catching and battling without throwing them out.
Amazon ends widely mocked scheme that turned workers into Twitter “ambassadors”
Amazon's paid tweeters praised company, denied that workers urinate in bottles.
Today’s best deals: Apple AirPods Pro, MacBook Air, and more
Dealmaster also has Wacom tablets, AMD Ryzen CPUs, and Amazon's Fire TV Stick.
Chromebooks may borrow the Pixel’s battery-preservation trick
Feature would extend battery life span with AI.
Meta’s cryptocurrency ploy all but dead with Libra/Diem seeking to sell assets
Stablecoin raised concerns of “excessive concentration of economic power.”
Maserati wants its new MC20 supercar to rekindle that old magic
It re-enters the fray with cutting-edge technology and head-turning design.
European court overturns 12-year-old €1.06 billion fine against Intel
It's a major victory for Intel.
Nvidia RTX 3050 review: For an overpriced 1080p GPU, this could’ve been worse
Weird GPU lands in a bonkers market on the heels of the disappointing AMD RX 6500.
Fabs stretched thin as chip shortage shrinks inventories to just 5 days
Relief appears to be months, if not years, away.
A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro
It's likely only a matter of time before PwnKit is exploited in the wild.
A rare find: Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old board game in Oman
Team also unearthed remains of several large stone towers dating back to the Bronze Age.
Neil Young tells Spotify it can’t have both him and Joe Rogan anymore
Musician wants streaming platform to address "fake information" on vaccines.
Booby-trapped sites delivered potent new backdoor trojan to macOS users
Written from scratch, DazleSpy is the latest advanced piece of Mac malware.
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