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Researchers unearth malicious Google Play apps linked to active exploit hackers
Apps used a variety of tricks to covertly install well-written espionage software.
Lenovo enters the foldable PC space with new ThinkPad X1 Fold
Plus a new, dual-screen ThinkBook with an E-Ink panel on the cover.
Samsung’s $1,000 Galaxy Chromebook is the new Chrome OS standard-bearer
Samsung builds a spiritual successor to the Pixelbook.
Unpatched US government website gets pwned by pro-Iran script kiddie
Federal Deposit Library Program's server unpatched since 2012.
Fisker shows off its new $37,499 electric crossover, due in 2022
Fisker was an early Tesla rival that flamed out in 2011; now it's back.
Final reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
Enter by the end of the day and add to this year's charity haul of over $29,000.
The FTC’s 2020 COPPA rules have YouTube creators scared
YouTube creators don't have access to kids' data—but may get COPPA fines anyway.
Byton is putting a 48-inch screen in its new EV, and it has content, too
Production of the M-Byte electric SUV starts this year with US deliveries in 2021.
Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s
Long before GPS, drivers still wanted tech that could simplify the navigation process.
HP updates Elite Dragonfly laptop with 10th-gen Intel processors, Tile integration
Plus a new display and new graphics for an updated HP Spectre x360 15.
MIT scientists made a shape-shifting material that morphs into a human face
New method based on double-curvature effect described by Gauss nearly 200 years ago.
It’s the network, stupid: Study offers fresh insight into why we’re so divided
Social perception bias might simply be an emergent property of our social networks.
What’s causing Australia’s devastating fire weather?
From climate trends to Indian Ocean temperature patterns.
10 tech deals we like that are going on this weekend
The latest Dealmaster has offers on Switch Pro Controllers, iPads, and more.
How modern tech has powered our favorite superheroes through the years
We live in an era of superhero stories, but they didn't appear out of nowhere (or Krypton).
Superior pinpoints racism in science: Naive scientists plus strategic racists
Angela Saini's new book explores why science's racism issues have persisted.
Judge awards women $13 million in massive lawsuit against GirlsDoPorn
Defendants used fraud and coercion to get women to appear in porn, judge rules.
Academic paper in comic form explores ethics of treating torturer with PTSD
It's part of a growing academic movement called "graphic medicine."
China and the United States will compete for launch supremacy in 2020
Can America break China's global lead in annual orbital missions?
Apple targets jailbreaking in lawsuit against iOS virtualization company
Corellium responds, says Apple is "demonizing" jailbreaking with new DMCA claim.
Apple and GPU-maker Imagination make nice in new licensing deal
One of tech's nastiest breakups has led to an amiable reconciliation.
Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped “through the net,” docs say
The man lived in a developed country with access to free healthcare.
Oracle copied Amazon’s API—was that copyright infringement?
Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry.
Pick your poison: The potential Iranian responses to US drone strike
Killing of Quds Force commander Soleimani raises the stakes in US-Iran tensions.
To replace gas taxes, Oregon and Utah ask EVs to pay for road use
Gas taxes pay for the upkeep of our roads, but electric cars don't use gasoline.
“Cache issue” causes Xiaomi cameras to show other people’s camera feeds
Xiaomi cuts camera feed access while it ensures "such issues will not happen again."
EPA science board to EPA management: Try using some science
People who feared for the board's independence may find new reports reassuring.
Clustering pattern of Azteca ant colonies may be due to a Turing mechanism
Chalk it up to a complicated interplay of predator/prey relationships in the ecosystem.
A pre-hurricane climate change analysis gets major revision after the storm
Effort had predicted half of Hurricane Florence's rainfall was due to warming.
IRS drops longstanding promise not to compete against TurboTax
Tax-software makers can't hide free services from Google search, IRS says.
Lidar sensors are about to become a mainstream car feature
Bosch, a "tier 1" auto supplier, is entering the crowded lidar market.
Early Pixel 4a renders somehow look better than the more premium Pixel 4
Google's next midrange phone still has a headphone jack, rear fingerprint reader.
Big Pharma celebrates new year by raising prices on over 250 drugs
The rates of the price increases are well above rate of inflation.
2020 reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
Add to our current charity haul of over $23,000 and get your chance to win!
Why did the former CEO of Nissan just get smuggled out of Japan?
Interpol is after Carlos Ghosn, but he probably wasn't smuggled out in a box.
Samsung’s new Galaxy Book Flex Alpha has QLED display, costs just $829
It's the fourth Galaxy Book laptop.
Dell updates popular XPS 13 laptop with 16:10 screen, IR camera
And new Latitude laptops may entice business users.
This may be a transcendent year for SpaceX
Company may attempt 50% more launches than any previous year.
This time, for sure! Ars Technica’s 2020 Deathwatch
Sometimes, your purpose in life is to be a cautionary tale.
You can’t stop a shaken beer can from fizzing over by tapping it, study finds
The best strategy for a shaken beer can is just to wait for the fizz to settle.
Start the new year right with terrifying trailer for A Quiet Place: Part II
"The people who are left, they're not the kind of people worth saving."
No foolin‘—the 2010s were a crazy decade for tech
Spaceflight lived, software ownership died, and net neutrality lived and died.
DNA analysis revealed the identity of 19th century “Connecticut vampire”
Genetic markers were cross-referenced to a genealogy database to help ID the remains.
The 2010s: Decade of the exoplanet
Ten years can transform a discipline.
Hurricanes, climate change, and the decline of the Maya
A sinkhole near Mayan ruins contains 2000 years of data on nearby hurricanes.
Injecting the flu vaccine into a tumor gets the immune system to attack it
Activating the immune system at the site of a tumor can re-engage the immune system.
Court backs Comcast, puts Maine’s à la carte cable law on hold
Two of the three arguments probably won't fly, judge ruled, but third just might
NIST digitized the bullets that killed JFK
“The virtual artifacts are as close as possible to the real things.”
The one video game my kids played all year long
Farming never felt so good.
Team that made gene-edited babies sentenced to prison, fined
China cracks down on researchers who edited genes in fertilized human eggs.
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