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Rocket Report: Virgin Galactic delayed again, June targeted for next SLS test
"Our teams are containing the majority of these issues to minimize impact on schedules."
SpaceX caps an incredibly busy month with a NASA crew landing Friday morning
"Very quiet launches. Beautiful landings."
Pandemic killed 15M people in first 2 years, WHO excess death study finds
Total excess deaths far exceed the reported deaths directly due to COVID-19.
Doctor Strange 2 review: Let Sam Raimi take you on a romp through Madness
Shining example of why MCU should trust a singular filmmaker's vision.
Frontier lied about Internet speeds and “ripped off customers,” FTC says
Settlement requires accurate speed claims and payment of nearly $9 million.
Despite the Epic v. Apple battle, Fortnite is officially back on the iPhone
Epic changed its mind about keeping Fortnite off of Xbox Cloud Gaming.
AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks
HP, Acer announce first Chrome OS devices with up to eight x86 cores.
Major mobile publisher buys Wordle! (but not the one you’re thinking of)
2016 app with a now-popular name now belongs to multi-billion dollar AppLovin.
HBO drops official trailer for House of the Dragon prequel series
"History does not remember blood. It remembers names."
Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard
Instead of a password, devices could look for your phone over Bluetooth.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is either good or it’s just so comforting that I don’t care
The latest Trek series plays it almost too safe, but it still feels right.
Stung by 3 court losses, ISPs stop fighting California net neutrality law
Broadband lobby dismisses case after preliminary injunction was denied three times.
Volta Trucks will launch its electric Class 7 trucks in the US next year
The Volta Zero has been designed for urban logistics use.
Larry Ellison chips in a cool billion toward Musk’s Twitter takeover
Musk also hopes to get former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to pitch in.
50 years on, the lessons of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study still reverberate
For 40 years, researchers deceived test subjects about the true purpose of the study.
Lenovo’s new Slim laptops delight the digits with carbon and glass
Lenovo plays with textures and high-end parts for a new range of ultralight clamshells.
Today’s best deals: Star Wars, Chromebooks, AirTags, iPads, and more
Dealmaster also has deals on Kindles, Google Nest, Roku, and more.
This is what the Salisbury Plain looked like before Stonehenge
The monument's builders didn't have to clear dense forests after all.
Despite unknowns, FDA officials make the case for annual fall COVID shots
In JAMA viewpoint, FDA leaders say a fall booster decision should come next month.
Bungie offers strong support for abortion rights amid Supreme Court leak
Destiny developer is one of a handful of tech companies speaking out.
“Black widow” neutron star takes an hour to orbit the star it’s roasting
Once an hour, the side of a star bombarded by radiation comes into view.
TurboTax forced to stop misleading “free, free, free” ads and pay back $141M
4.4 million taxpayers to get refunds from Intuit in settlement with all 50 states.
Mozilla releases Firefox version 100 this week
The big number came with a small update on desktop, Android, and iOS.
New lawsuit calls Kotick’s handling of Activision-Microsoft merger “inexcusable”
Shareholders want more corporate books opened in light of "disturbing allegations."
Report: Sonos is launching its own voice assistant in June
Voice assistant would help Sonos be less dependent on frenemies Amazon, Google.
YouTube Go is dead, and you can probably blame YouTube Premium
YouTube Go offered free offline videos, but now you'll need YouTube Premium.
Discs vs. data: Are we helping the environment by streaming?
The number of caveats has only grown since the last few studies were done.
Razer’s 240 Hz laptop makes OLED more appealing to gamers
Highly expensive PC's display balances speed, resolution, and contrast.
Microsoft open-sourced the code for 1995’s 3D Movie Maker because someone asked [Updated]
Among other things, the software introduced us all to Comic Sans.
FAA urges airlines to replace altimeters that can’t filter out 5G signals
Better late than never: FCC asked aviation industry to fix problem in early 2020.
NY Times says Wordle drove “tens of millions” of new users, record growth
But there are already signs that the game's "audience may moderate over time."
Obi-Wan trailer released by Disney for Star Wars Day
The six-part miniseries begins on May 27 on Disney+.
VW sells out of electric cars in US and Europe
World’s second-largest EV manufacturer hit by supply chain bottlenecks.
This time, can Boeing’s Starliner finally shine?
Ten months later, another chance at a do-over for Boeing's crewed spacecraft.
Could this pottery shard be a 1,000-year-old hand grenade? Signs point to yes
Residue analysis suggests it was a grenade but can't completely rule out other uses.
BA.2.12.1 poised to become dominant in US, raising concern for future vaccines
Omicron subvariants are evading vaccines and infection-derived protections.
Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services
ISPs ordered to block the pirate websites "by any technological means available."
Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw
Vulnerability in 3rd-party libraries can send devices' users to malicious sites.
Nintendo Switch Sports review: Wii would like something better than this
Better online, but fails to exceed high bar set by popular Wii Sports originals.
US spending money to spur domestic battery production
Infrastructure funding will be used to boost full life cycle within the US.
Pixel 6 finally getting a Dirty Pipe patch, one month after the Galaxy S22
Samsung somehow shipped Google's patch a month before Google.
Twitter warns of possible employee exodus before Musk completes purchase
Twitter SEC filing cites "inability to attract and retain key personnel."
Nintendo Switch Sports players are breaking TVs like it’s 2006
Flying Joy-Cons recall the errant Wii remotes of the mid-'00s.
NASA chief says cost-plus contracts are a “plague” on the space agency
"You get it done with that competitive spirit. You get it done cheaper."
Kindle e-readers finally (kind of) support ePub books
Support relies on "Send to Kindle" file conversion, is better than nothing.
Turning waste into gold drugs
Given waste as starting material, software finds viable reaction path to drugs.
Rocket Lab catches a 1-ton booster falling back from space
"It's kind of like Ghostbusters in some way."
Ars Frontiers is next week—here’s what’s on tap at our first conference
Interested in attending? We'll tell you how to register for an invite!
Botnet that hid for 18 months boasted some of the coolest tradecraft ever
Once-unknown group uses a tunnel fetish and a chameleon's ability to blend in.
Omicron subvariants BA.4, BA.5 evade protection from earlier omicron infection
Data suggests possibility of new infection wave, though vaccination boosts protection.
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