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The US military is starting to get really interested in Starship
"The Air Force seeks to leverage the current multi-billion dollar commercial investment."
The best Memorial Day sales we can find on laptops, video games, and more tech [Updated]
Including deals on Lenovo ThinkPads, wireless headphones, and PlayStation games.
Can we keep human inconsistency from confusing expert advice?
Human variability is great—except when it gets in the way of consistent guidance.
Genetic tricks of the longest-lived animals
By studying long-living animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.
Building a better edible
Scientists are scouring existing studies and research to learn how edibles interact with the body.
Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
From the archives: Ars talks to the filmmakers who collaborated with an AI for Sunspring.
The SolarWinds hackers aren’t back—they never went away
A new phishing campaign is less an escalation than a regression to the mean.
Deepfake maps could really mess with your sense of the world
Researchers applied AI techniques to make portions of Seattle look more like Beijing
Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes
Giraffes: Scary high blood pressure, yet few of the issues plaguing people with hypertension.
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
Amazon's experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.
Ancient cemetery tells a tale of constant, low-level warfare
Men, women, and children were repeatedly wounded in skirmishes along the Upper Nile.
Stardew Valley: The Board Game—a loving production but a mixed review from Grandpa
The beloved video game is relaxing. The board game? Not as much.
Trinitite: The radioactive rock buried in New Mexico before the Atari games
From the archives: A short story about a strange glass.
Rewilding: Four tips to let nature thrive
Comprehensive international study on rewilding has practical tips to re-establish nature.
NASA budget goes all-in on science, stays the course on Moon lander
"The goal is 2024, but I think we have to be brutally realistic."
AT&T/Verizon lobby keeps claiming that home-Internet prices are dropping
USTelecom's "Broadband Pricing Index" doesn't measure what the average user pays.
CDC loosened mask guidance to encourage vaccination—it failed spectacularly
FDA approval and paid time off would make people more likely to get a shot, poll finds.
Review: A Quiet Place Part 2 is a worthy sequel that was worth the wait
Paramount, director John Krasinski opted to shelve the movie until theaters reopened
Far Cry 6 gameplay reveal: Ride a horse, pet a dog, set lots of things on fire
Gunplay in wide-open Pseudo-Cuba: "F___ed up situations call for f___ed up solutions."
Redesigned AirPods are coming soon, report claims
AirPods would have shorter stems, and AirPods Pro might have no stems at all.
Game Builder Garage hides powerful programming tools behind a cute interface
Preview: Kids can learn to make Switch games without a single line of code.
Google Photos wants money: Stricter storage limitations kick in next week
All new photos will start counting against the 15GB storage limit on June 1.
Texas’ “failsafe” generators failed, risking weeks-long catastrophe
Black start generators—and their backups—failed en masse during deep freeze.
Engineered virus and goggles restore object recognition in a blind man
What started out as an experimental tool has evolved into a treatment.
How I learned to love the Indianapolis 500, America’s greatest race
The 105th running of the Indianapolis 500 takes place on Sunday, May 30.
Covert channel in Apple’s M1 is mostly harmless, but it sure is interesting
Technically, it's a vulnerability, but there's not much an attacker can do with it.
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and the soft, squishy science of language
A deep dive into xenolinguistics, pragmatics, the cooperative principle, and Noam Chomsky!
Rocket Report: Russia plans nuclear space tug, Falcon Heavy launch delays
"Europe really needs to build infrastructure to get to space."
SolarWinds hackers are back with a new mass campaign, Microsoft says
Kremlin-backed group uses hacked account to impersonate US aid agency.
Ohio lawmakers want to abolish vaccine requirements—all vaccine requirements
Someone would only have to verbally decline vaccination and cite "reasons of conscience."
Horizon Forbidden West gameplay reveal: Swimming with tropical robo-saurs
Gorgeous shift to tropical, flooded future San Fran—but how will it look on PS4?
More people are buying wearables than ever before—and Apple is in the lead
But the fastest-growing categories are ones Apple hasn't even touched yet.
Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition
Spectrum costs $30 for 400Mbps on one street, $50 for half the speed on another.
Sony’s “Days of Play” sale discounts a bunch of PS4 and PS5 exclusives
Dealmaster also has deals on Apple Macs, Dell monitors, and Bluetooth speakers.
PlayStation users left out of Borderlands 3 cross-platform features
Sony's recently revealed cross-platform revenue-sharing plan may be to blame.
Downloading Ubuntu via BitTorrent gets Comcast customer a DMCA warning
Put down your pitchforks—it looks like the DMCA warning was bogus.
Google’s 80-acre megacampus will take over a chunk of San Jose
Google does not yet know the cost of the 10- to 30-year construction project.
Big Oil finds it hard to ignore pollution amid investor, court pressure
Two shareholder votes and one court ruling hint at a sea change for oil and gas.
Announcement: Ars is hiring two reporters
We are seeking reporters of a most intelligent nature!
Wolves create a “landscape of fear,” slowing deer-car collisions
Wolves scare deer away from highways, a marked economic and ecological benefit.
We got our first ride in the electric Lucid Air sedan
The stylish and spacious electric sedan goes into production later this year.
Sony lists PC version of Uncharted 4 in investor report
Listed under "more PC releases planned" amid strong returns for Horizon's port.
Scientists induced hallucinations in mice to learn more about human psychosis
Study uncovered a surprising link between how human and mouse minds malfunction.
Windows 10 21H1 available now, improves document load times
The changes in 21H1 are mostly minor—much bigger things are coming in October.
These offline, disc-based games require an online check-in on Xbox Series X
One-time connection required for configuration on Xbox One and Smart Delivery discs.
No, it doesn’t just crash Safari. Apple has yet to fix exploitable flaw
WebKit bug that was fixed upstream has yet to find its way into Apple products.
Arm’s Cortex X2-based CPUs are 30 percent faster and more efficient
Arm is also floating a laptop chip design with eight Cortex X2 cores.
Russia tried to spread dangerous lies about Pfizer vaccine, France suspects
French officials likened the lies to campaigns run by Russia's Internet Research Agency.
Apple TV 4K gets 8 out of 10 repairability score in iFixit’s latest teardown
The Apple TV 4K itself is surprisingly easy to service. Its remote? Not so much.
JJ Abrams: Lack of plan in Star Wars’ latest trilogy was a “critical” flaw
Hindsight is 20/20: "There's nothing more important than knowing where you're going."
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