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The best cars, SUVs, and crossovers we drove in 2020
The Civic Type-R brought the most smiles and a pair of hybrid SUVs surprised me.
Rising to meet the tide against the threat of coastal flooding
Faster and more accurate forecasts can save lives and property.
Scientists ID potential biomarkers to peg time of death for submerged corpses
The levels of certain proteins in bones can reveal how long a body has been in water.
“Rudderless” QAnon may reinvent itself after US election, warn experts
Trump’s defeat hurts movement, but influencers continue to hype conspiracy theory.
Parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce without males
Some species experience spontaneous parthenogenesis, best documented in zoo settings.
Want to really understand how bitcoin works? Here’s a gentle primer
Ars goes deep on the breakthrough online payment network.
Best new board game apps of 2020
The best board gaming action... on your phone or computer.
TV Technica 2020: Our favorite shows and binges in a year of living distantly
With most major movie releases sidelined until 2021, TV stepped in to fill the gap.
Wonder Woman 1984 is fun, but doesn’t quite capture magic of its predecessor
Patty Jenkins' sequel is hampered by nonsensical plot, heavy-handed moralizing
Study: children’s belief in Santa Claus is more nuanced than you think
Santa falls into an ambiguous category between "real" and "nonreal" for many children
2020’s 20 most-commented stories
Yesterday we brought you the most popular stories of 2020. These are the most talked-about.
Nikola stock craters after cancellation of major garbage truck order
Nikola has been on the defensive since fraud allegations surfaced in September.
Poignant The Midnight Sky wrestles with whether humankind is worth saving
George Clooney directed and stars in adaptation of the Lily Brooks-Dalton novel
2020’s 20 most-read stories on Ars Technica
It's our annual rundown of the most-read stories.
Google develops an AI that can learn both chess and Pac-Man
MuZero handles both rules-based and open-ended games.
Trump vetoes $740B defense bill, citing “failure to terminate” Section 230
Congress already scheduled veto override votes for after Christmas.
Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR: A turbulent start for wide-open skies
Basic impressions of what to expect—and hopes for patches to come.
Trump admin. agrees to pay Pfizer $1.95B for 100M more vaccine doses
Agreement means Pfizer will provide a total of 200M doses, with option for 400M more.
Musk says Apple passed on Tesla acquisition three years ago
Tesla got near bankruptcy as it ramped up Model 3 production in 2017 and 2018.
Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra hits the FCC, confirms S-Pen and Wi-Fi 6E support
The phone is due out earlier than ever, in mid-January.
For Biden administration, Fauci’s in, but Birx is not
Birx was widely seen as too accommodating to Trump but got sidelined anyway.
Rocket Report: SN9 rolls to the launch pad, SLS “wet dress” test ends early
"It has surely been a year of challenges."
The omnibus bill was packed with energy and environment policy
DOE gets a long list of clean energy R&D projects.
Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
When you haven't been updated since 2016, expiring certificates are a problem.
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings have unique microbiomes, study finds
Research could help slow down deterioration of aging artwork, unmask counterfeits.
Congress creates new copyright court that could make trolling easier
Congress also made streaming pirated works a felony.
Firefox continues cracking down on tracking with cache partitioning
Mozilla follows Apple's and Google's leads on partitioning, then one-ups them.
Google, Facebook reportedly agreed to work together to fight antitrust probes
The law doesn't love it when competitors promise to cooperate in certain ways.
The 911 Carrera S: Two pedals good, three pedals better
Porsche designed the 992 around the PDK gearbox; why is the manual so darn good?
The Apple Watch Series 6 is $60 off at Amazon today
Dealmaster also has deals on tons of video games, wireless headphones, and more.
SARS-CoV-2’s spread to wild mink not yet a reason to panic
A monitoring program picked up a single case and no indications of wider spread.
“America’s doctor,” Anthony Fauci, gets Moderna vaccine
Fauci was vaccinated alongside NIH director and HHS secretary.
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Help us set a new giving record by adding to our $35,000+ charity haul so far.
Ars Technica’s best games of 2020
These 20 titles helped a quarantined 2020 pass by that much more quickly.
$50-per-month emergency broadband subsidies approved in pandemic stimulus
Congress creates $3.2 billion fund for people with low incomes or who have lost jobs.
Russia’s space chief is hopping mad over most recent US restrictions
"The first thing they did is spit into the Samara well."
Yukon gold miner unearths a mummified Ice Age wolf pup
Look upon the face of an Ice Age predator, and say "Aww."
Apple is allegedly working on a passenger car, breakthrough battery tech
Reuters cites several anonymous sources in this update to Project Titan
Pornhub squarely targeted in bipartisan bill to regulate sex work online
The bill would cause more harms to sex workers than it would fix, critics argue.
Zero-click iMessage zero-day used to hack the iPhones of 36 journalists
Malicious messages installed spyware that recorded audio and pics and stole passwords.
What we know about the new SARS strain that’s shutting down the UK
Policy is to treat it like a potential threat, but the emphasis is on "potential."
After riots, iPhone manufacturer says it “deeply regrets” exploiting workers
Apple flags Wistron for "violations of our Supplier Code of Conduct."
AT&T reportedly struggling to sell DirecTV at anything but a huge loss
AT&T told bidders it may cancel auction if offers don't improve, NY Post reports.
These tires work better in snow thanks to 3D printing
Additive manufacturing helps create 3D "sipes" that open and close as you drive.
Lost Sega arcade classics born anew in cute, $130 Astro City Mini [Updated]
Fun, clicky buttons, Sega rarities, and solid emulation—albeit with some issues.
Russia’s space chief cannot seem to get “gentle” SpaceX out of his mind
"I wonder if gentle SpaceX is able to work in such conditions?"
Review: Alice in Borderland takes us down a deliciously bonkers rabbit hole
Alice in Wonderland and Ready Player One meet Lord of the Flies and Cube.
Humanity is in danger of becoming obsolete technology in LX 2048
Director Guy Moshe chats with Ars about his ambitious sci-fi film.
How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world
1987's Acorn Archimedes was the first production RISC-based personal computer.
Russia’s hacking frenzy is a reckoning
US still has no good answer for "supply chain" attacks that let Russia run wild.
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