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Dropbox silently installs new file manager app on users’ systems [Updated]
Dropbox ambushes its users with a radically different version of its sync app.
Warming climate likely leading to larger California fires
Warmer temperatures mean drier fuels and more fire for much of the state.
More on DataSpii: How extensions hide their data grabs—and how they’re discovered
Is your browser extension tracking your every move online?
My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users
Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public?
Microsoft warns 10,000 customers they’re targeted by nation-sponsored hackers
Hacking remains a tool of choice for influencing elections, company warns.
Zombifying fungus bypasses the brain to make ants its puppets, study finds
SEM images showed strange bead-like particles that could also play a role.
WHO declares Ebola outbreak an international emergency
"It is time for the world to take notice and redouble our efforts."
Painted-on salt provides glowing thermometer for tiny things
Fast and tiny temperature changes visible in the glow of a 2D salt.
DEA tracked every opioid pill sold in the US. The data is out—and it’s horrific
Just three drug makers and six distributors were behind the flood.
Turkey crosses “red line,” gets booted from F-35 partnership
ErdoÄŸan's welcome of Russian missiles puts nail in coffin of F-35 buy.
Xiaomi’s Mi A3 brings stock Android, OLED display for€249
It seems like a solid midranger, but we worry about the 720p display.
Censored Chinese search project is “terminated,” Google rep testifies
The project drew criticism from elected officials and Google employees.
New archaeological layer discovered at L’Anse aux Meadows
The story of the only undisputed Norse site in the Americas just got more complicated.
The Greatest Leap, part 2: The 50/50 bet that won the Space Race for America
If Apollo 8 failed, NASA's Moon dreams would crumble.
OneWeb’s low-Earth satellites hit 400Mbps and 32ms latency in new test
OneWeb's first six satellites pass test as company moves closer to real service.
NASA’s large SLS rocket unlikely to fly before at least late 2021
"NASA has not been good at setting realistic budget and schedules."
War Stories: Designing Dead Cells was a marriage of man and machine
Finding a balance between hand-made creations and algorithmic variation.
Ford designs a pickup truck emoji, petitions Unicode Consortium
The best-selling vehicle in the US might become an actual emoji.
New standard Switch model will improve battery life 40 to 80 percent
Minor revision coming to US/Japan in August, UK in September.
New research on Tunguska finds such events happen less often than we thought
Eyewitness: "Suddenly the sky appeared like it was split in two, high above the forest."
Losing yourself in virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects
Psychologist Pete Etchells chats with Ars about his first book, Lost in a Good Game.
Justice John Paul Stevens, dead at 99, promoted the Internet revolution
He was one of the most pragmatic and tech-savvy justices in court history.
Apple is planning to buy up original podcasts with exclusivity in mind
Apple already has original content in music and TV; are podcasts next?
Musk’s newest startup is venturing into a series of hard problems
Elon Musk will describe his plans for Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company.
Apple celebrates Apollo 11 anniversary with a new peek at For All Mankind
Ronald D. Moore, Michael Okuda, Maril Davis, and more discuss the new show.
The first all-new Lotus in years will be a 1,971hp electric car
Flush with Geely's funding, this hypercar marks the start of a new chapter.
We’re getting a fourth Thor film, and Taika Waititi is directing it
But it means the director's anticipated adaptation of Akira is delayed indefinitely.
Nintendo deletes popular Mario Maker 2 level for unexplained reasons
GrandPooBear says he'd "rather make a ROM hack" than go on under SMM2's unclear rules.
Formula E racing tech will improve the charger for your electric car
ABB and Enel X provide modified production fast chargers used at each ePrix.
The $139 Nokia 2.2 brings back the removable battery
It has a notched camera design, a plastic body, and a removable battery.
FCC gives ISPs another $563 million to build rural-broadband networks
Tens of millions of Americans still don't have broadband Internet.
The Greatest Leap, part 1:How the Apollo fire propelled NASA to the Moon
“The conquest of space is worth the risk of life,” said Gus Grissom.
Dealmaster: Amazon Prime Day deals you can snag for under $50
Here's the TL;DR version of the best affordable Prime Day deals.
Brains scale better than CPUs. So Intel is building brains
The new Pohoiki Beach builds on the 2017 success of Intel's Loihi NPU.
Elon Musk announces another price hike for “full self-driving” package
Musk says full autonomy is 18 months away, but past predictions haven't held up.
No exomoons yet, but we may have spotted a disk that will form them
Plus there's a weird feature that we can't explain at this point.
Minecraft Earth’s closed beta: This augmented reality needs more augmenting
Microsoft's cute, polished answer to Pokemon Go is interesting but unfinished.
Tesla cuts prices and simplifies its product line
The federal tax credit for Tesla vehicles declined by $1,875 on July 1.
Dealmaster: The best Prime Day tech deals from retailers besides Amazon
Including deals on Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon, a Switch bundle, and more.
American kids would much rather be YouTubers than astronauts
Becoming an astronaut ranked last among five professions.
Measles is killing more people in the DRC than Ebola—and faster
"Frankly, I am embarrassed to talk only about Ebola," WHO director-general says.
SpaceX nears completion of Dragon investigation, has a “good path forward”
"Through this process, we will continue to learn things that will help us fly safer.”
Ajit Pai’s new gift to cable companies would kill local fees and rules
Cities can't use cable authority to charge broadband fees, Pai says.
Twitter is changing Twitter.com to be more like mobile app
One site to rule mobile and desktop, with modular code that adapts to client.
Lawrence of Arabia takes on Rasputin in first trailer for The King’s Man
Director Matthew Vaughan explores early 20th-century origins of fictional spy agency.
Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile [Updated]
Back from fighting in Donbass, group hoped to sell Qatari missile to "foreign government."
Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks
Microsoft's future in Germany is in question again.
Why is there no smoking in Gears 5? It depends on who you ask
Either way, you won't see cigars dangling from COG mouths any time soon.
Flay your mind: Stranger Things S3 just might be the show’s best season yet
The Duffer Brothers raise the bar yet again with deft plotting, strong cast.
The Snapdragon 855 is getting an upgrade to the Snapdragon 855+
Devices ship soon, starting with the Asus ROG Phone 2 later this month.
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