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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.
Employee error to blame for massive data leak, Wyze says
Yet another cloud-based service left a big pile of data sitting around unlocked.
Wired for sound: How SIP won the VoIP protocol wars
From the archives: An in-depth look at VoIP, specifically its past.
The 2010s were a veritable golden age of opening credits in television
Game of Thrones helped drive a wave of cinematic quality in main title sequences.
“Loonshots” and phase transitions are the key to innovation, physicist argues
Ars chats with physicist and biotech guru Safi Bahcall about his book Loonshots.
Ars To-Be-Read: Five books we’re most excited to read in 2020
Start 2020 off right by reading these intriguing sci-fi, fantasy, and nonfiction books.
Meta-analysis study indicates we publish more positive results
Meta-analyses will only produce more reliable results if the studies are good.
How much of a genius-level move was using binary space partitioning in Doom?
E1M1, the first level of Doom, was actually brought to you by the US Air Force.
Ars Technica’s favorite cars and SUVs of 2019
The Ars cars guys reveal the best and worst of 2019.
The global soda tax experiment
Can these taxes really make a dent in obesity, diabetes, and other ailments?
Scientists model dynamic feedback loop that fuels the spread of wildfires
Interaction between rising air, ambient winds determines how quickly a fire spreads.
TV Technica 2019: These were our favorite shows and binges this year
From sitcoms and sci-fi to prestige drama, it was a banner year for peak TV.
Forecasting El Niño with entropy—a year in advance
This would beat 6-month limit of current forecasts.
VW is really optimistic about electric vehicle sales
German automaker to hit BEV production milestones a couple of years early.
Attack of the terrifying robot vacuum
Ho-ho-how did this intruder break in?
“They’re abysmal students”: Are cell phones destroying the college classroom?
A cri de coeur from a philosophy professor.
Plant-based burgers will make men grow boobs, Livestock News reports
There's still no evidence to support this claim.
DNA points to humans as killers of the northern version of the penguin
DNA from old bones provides a glimpse into the auk population's history.
New York Governor vetoes bill that would have made electric scooters legal
Scooter startups, public safety, and food delivery make for a complicated mix.
A “Cybertruck” goes on sale for $10,800—in Russia
In case you can't wait for Tesla to put it into production.
How AI helps unlock the secrets of Old Master and modernist paintings
Two recent papers offer innovative twists on machine learning as applied to art.
After an amazing decade in space, these are humanity’s top achievements
Can you guess number one?
Trump could mandate free access to federally funded research papers
Publishers warn the change could "jeopardize the IP of American organizations."
Ars Technica’s best films of 2019
Superheroes, documentaries, and perspective-bending terror abound this year.
FAA announces new system for remotely identifying and tracking drones
The new system will help enable large-scale commercial use of drones.
Driver training was reportedly too much of “a bottleneck” for Amazon
Time you use to train thousands of drivers is time they aren't making deliveries.
88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV. Why?
Second screens and the sickness unto death.
Galactic cosmic ray model works without physics, and that is bad
Cosmic ray statistical model removes dark matter, even when present.
Travis Kalanick quits Uber’s board, sells off all his Uber stock
A series of scandals led to Kalanick's ouster in 2017.
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