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Earth's core rejects oxygen, cools slower, magnetic field harder to explain.

New zones look great, but it's new ways to play old ones that have me excited.

Gloves, sample tubes, and vials—labs produce millions of tonnes of waste each year.

More than $4 million spent opposing new rules that crack down on short-term rentals.

In its third year, hacking/coding challenge tests a range of skills.

Apes may anticipate when a person will wind up believing something in error.

Including deals on Sony and Bose headphones, microSD cards, laptops, and more.

The atmosphere of Diablo 2 meets the tight action of Diablo 3.

"I used footage of the past to create a future that reflects our present day society."

From 1971's Yip-Yips to modern pop-culture nods to GoT, Stranger Things.

New App Defense Alliance tries solving longstanding Play Store malware problem.

Owner Michael Pratt reportedly fled to New Zealand in September.

Malware hides at every step by mimicking common software in long multi-stage execution.

He went to the doctors complaining of fatigue.

Cameras and other gear were sold to military marked "Made in America." They weren't.

Thirty minutes of inside stories in Rare Replay format: Was Microsoft close to a launch?

Poor branding, lack of first-party exclusives drag down Sony's subscription service.

Vendor's text-message server failed on February 14, got reactivated yesterday.

For the first time, a potentially toxic substance is found at the site of lung injury.

Haunting of Hill House's Mike Flanagan was the perfect choice to adapt King's novel.

Ergonomics, eyeball tracking, and hand tracking add up to a futuristic experience.

The Pixel 4 is just two weeks old, and already we're hearing about price cuts.

It's a bit more powerful, a bit heavier, and a bit faster but also less efficient.

Most users opted not to share data with police, who still got it all anyway.

Bitdefender report in July led to patch of code that sent credentials in plaintext.

This isn't a scientific analysis like the IPCC reports provide.

Spiraling ion probed for months, revealed g-factor not quite as predicted.

"NASA is working to bring down the cost of a single SLS launch."

Ars tests a bunch of docks and hubs to see which are worthy of a spot on your desk.

"Use of a commercial launch vehicle would provide over $1.5 billion in cost savings."

Iron March went dark two years ago. Now a 1GB file exposes its dirty laundry.

The Universal Pictures reboot deviates quite a bit from H.G. Wells' original novel.

Legal scholars say a special examiner could bring transparency to the Sacklers.

The update addresses cellular data issues in addition to the background app bug.

"We're not in the news business," Reed Hastings said. "We're trying to entertain."

Analyzing a longer timeline, even if we ceased emissions in 2030.

7,000 pages of internal documents are great for investigators, bad for Facebook.

Mustang Lithium has 900hp, and the E-10 paves the way for electric crate motors.

MLPerf benches both training and inference workloads across a wide ML spectrum.

AT&T adds 15GB "bonus" to older plans but raises price $10.

New users can save on Audible, plus deals on smart TVs, wireless headphones, and more.

This rhythm game is one patch away from becoming the ultimate VR John Wick simulator.

The update is good news for others in need of sensitive transplants.

Hidden feature allows the Pixel 4 to approach semi-competitive display brightness.

Sounds like a natural expansion of Valve's current "home PC" streaming offerings.

Uber may be forced to redesign some parts of its autonomy stack.

We trek to the frozen north and pry into the true fate of Commander Shepard.

Project Silica extends storage reliability goals from "decades" to "centuries."

Everything cool about 2015's Elite returns, plus Bluetooth, built-in battery, more.