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Vitamin E acetate found in all lung fluid samples tested from injured vapers
For the first time, a potentially toxic substance is found at the site of lung injury.
Review: Doctor Sleep joins IT as one of the best Stephen King adaptations yet
Haunting of Hill House's Mike Flanagan was the perfect choice to adapt King's novel.
Microsoft HoloLens 2 offers trippy, eyeball-tracking augmented reality
Ergonomics, eyeball tracking, and hand tracking add up to a futuristic experience.
Black Friday Pixel 4 deals are already discounting the phone by $400
The Pixel 4 is just two weeks old, and already we're hearing about price cuts.
Evolution, not revolution, for the new 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S
It's a bit more powerful, a bit heavier, and a bit faster but also less efficient.
Search warrant overrides 1M users’ choice not to share DNA with cops
Most users opted not to share data with police, who still got it all anyway.
Ring-a-ding: IoT doorbell exposed customer Wi-Fi passwords to eavesdroppers
Bitdefender report in July led to patch of code that sent credentials in plaintext.
What caused 11,000 scientists to declare a climate emergency?
This isn't a scientific analysis like the IPCC reports provide.
Silicon’s magnetic properties test quantum mechanics to its limits
Spiraling ion probed for months, revealed g-factor not quite as predicted.
NASA does not deny the “over $2 billion” cost of a single SLS launch
"NASA is working to bring down the cost of a single SLS launch."
Guidemaster: Picking the right Thunderbolt 3 or USB-C dock for your desk
Ars tests a bunch of docks and hubs to see which are worthy of a spot on your desk.
Rocket Report: Aloha to Hawaii launch site, China tests grid fins
"Use of a commercial launch vehicle would provide over $1.5 billion in cost savings."
Members of violent white supremacist website exposed in massive data dump
Iron March went dark two years ago. Now a 1GB file exposes its dirty laundry.
Elisabeth Moss gets the gaslighting treatment in Invisible Man trailer
The Universal Pictures reboot deviates quite a bit from H.G. Wells' original novel.
Sacklers get extra bankruptcy protections as legal experts call for probe
Legal scholars say a special examiner could bring transparency to the Sacklers.
Apple fixes background app bug with iOS and iPadOS 13.2.2
The update addresses cellular data issues in addition to the background app bug.
Netflix CEO defends censoring anti-government video in Saudi Arabia
"We're not in the news business," Reed Hastings said. "We're trying to entertain."
It keeps going: 1 meter sea-level rise by 2300 is now inevitable
Analyzing a longer timeline, even if we ceased emissions in 2030.
Massive Facebook document leak gives ammunition to investigators
7,000 pages of internal documents are great for investigators, bad for Facebook.
These electric hot rods point the way to future restomods
Mustang Lithium has 900hp, and the E-10 paves the way for electric crate motors.
Meet MLPerf, a benchmark for measuring machine-learning performance
MLPerf benches both training and inference workloads across a wide ML spectrum.
AT&T switches customers to more expensive plans without asking them first
AT&T adds 15GB "bonus" to older plans but raises price $10.
Dealmaster: Get 3 months of Audible for just $6.95 per month
New users can save on Audible, plus deals on smart TVs, wireless headphones, and more.
Pistol Whip review: The year’s freshest VR game—and oh-so close to greatness
This rhythm game is one patch away from becoming the ultimate VR John Wick simulator.
Penis-and-scrotum transplant patient reports near-normal erections, orgasms
The update is good news for others in need of sensitive transplants.
The Pixel 4’s latest battery compromise? Artificially capped display brightness
Hidden feature allows the Pixel 4 to approach semi-competitive display brightness.
Valve appears to be working on a “Steam Cloud Gaming” service
Sounds like a natural expansion of Valve's current "home PC" streaming offerings.
Uber still using Waymo-derived self-driving technology, expert says
Uber may be forced to redesign some parts of its autonomy stack.
Video: A chat with Mac Walters on the unsolved mysteries of the Mass Effect universe
We trek to the frozen north and pry into the true fate of Commander Shepard.
Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage
Project Silica extends storage reliability goals from "decades" to "centuries."
Land-speed car begins testing, beats 500mph with just one engine
It's a few years behind schedule, but the 1,000mph car is now testing in Africa.
Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller review: For $180, it better be this good
Everything cool about 2015's Elite returns, plus Bluetooth, built-in battery, more.
Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis
Indictment accuses two of passing data about people critical of Saudi royals, government.
Recycling cars’ lithium batteries is more complicated than you might think
First step: find some other way to use the batteries before taking them apart.
How Arcade1Up found a sweet spot for scaled-down home game cabinets
CEO discusses challenges getting TMNT released, possibilities for the future.
Tech-support scammers used data stolen by Trend Micro employee
Support-scam callers used leaked data about Trend Micro customers handed over by insider.
How terrible software design decisions led to Uber’s deadly 2018 crash
NTSB says the system "did not include consideration for jaywalking pedestrians."
Cattle eyeball worms found in second human, raising worry of wriggly uprising
Cattle eyeball parasites, part deux: The wrath of flies that will drink your tears.
A young couple might regret their choice of nanny in creepy new Servant trailer
M. Night Shyamalan makes a rare foray into television with new Apple TV+ series.
A bipartisan group of Senators wants to extend the space station to 2030
"This legislation will help grow our already burgeoning space economy."
Scientists unlock the chemical secrets of a 19th-century photography technique
Mordançage, or "etch-bleaching," creates ethereal veiling effects in B&W photographs.
AT&T makes customers work to get refunds they should get automatically
AT&T gives refunds for blacked-out sports channel—but only if you complain.
Facebook Groups API flaw exposed data to 100 developers, company says
"Developers had access to data they shouldn't" is becoming a familiar refrain.
Xiaomi’s Apple Watch clone removes everything good about the Apple Watch
The Xiaomi Mi Watch combines Apple design with Wear OS and a CPU from 2011.
The White House puts a price on the SLS rocket—and it’s a lot
Again, Congress is urged to allow a commercial launch of the Europa Clipper.
Here’s how measles wipes out the immune system’s memory
The virus blanks out immune system’s memory cells and up to 73% of antibodies.
Breaking the law: How 8chan (or “8kun”) got (briefly) back online
Russian "bulletproof" host advertised stolen IP address to take site live.
Customers rave about Model 3 in new Bloomberg survey
More than 90% of customers say Autopilot makes them safer.
New bill would create Digital Privacy Agency to enforce privacy rights
The bill proposes sweeping reforms to privacy rights and enforcement.
AT&T users whose “unlimited data” was throttled get $60 million in refunds
AT&T dragged case out for 5 years before finally agreeing to refunds.
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