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Please don’t repeat these things WikiLeaks says you can’t say about Assange (updated)
Confidential memo promptly leaked.
Samsung sticks Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU inside new Odyssey gaming notebook
Yet another competitor for Acer, Alienware, Razer, and others to watch.
SpaceX demo flight a month away, will be “especially dangerous,” Musk says
"Early flights are especially dangerous, as there’s a lot of new hardware."
Garmin’s Vivoactive 3 Music smartwatch gets LTE (but no music streaming—yet)
New "incident detection" senses when you wipe out on the running trail, too.
Google boasts 1 billion Assistant devices—10x Amazon Alexa’s install base
The power of Android gives Google 10x more assistant devices than Amazon.
Huawei debuts yet another MacBook-looking laptop: The $999 Matebook 13
It's less powerful but more portable and affordable than the Matebook X Pro.
Even KitchenAid is making a Google Smart Display—and it’s water resistant
Thanks to an IPX-5 rating, you can just rinse it off after a messy cooking session.
Withings undercuts Apple Watch, debuts $129 ECG monitoring smartwatch
The analog-faced smartwatch uses three electrodes to measure ECGs.
HP adds Core i9 CPUs, Nvidia RTX graphics to elite Omen Obelisk desktop
Remember HP's massive, 65-inch Emperium gaming display? It's getting a soundbar.
HP’s new Chromebook x360 14 brings business style to Chrome OS
HP also adds AMD processors to one of its existing affordable Chromebooks.
Quantum physicists in the 1920s helped found field of quantum biology
Niels Bohr, Erwin Schroedinger, and others pondered link between life and physics.
Want Lewis or Rowling-like worlds but more nightmarish? Snag In an Absent Dream
If you found a door to another world, would you open it? Find out via author Seanan McGuire.
They’re dead to us: The Ars Technica 2019 Deathwatch
Companies, tech, and trends least likely to succeed in 2019, as chosen by Ars editors.
Milky Way to face a one-two punch of galaxy collisions
The Large Magellanic Cloud will hit us before Andromeda can get here.
New Windows 10 build silences Cortana, brings passwordless accounts
Though as ever, Home users are special.
After puking blood and sparking global freakout, man tests negative for Ebola
Man with recent travel to Africa gave Swedish authorities quite a fright Friday.
Hobbyists resurrect Kojima’s “lost” game P.T. as a free PC download
Includes optional VR mode—for now, that mode is broken, so your pants are safe.
“Carculator” tells you how much money you can make renting out your car
Data from 6 million days of rentals powers the carculator.
Lose yourself in this highly addictive “murder map” of medieval London
14th century Clue: It was the priest with the long knife in the garden.
“Security researcher” dumps files of German chancellor, legislators, bloggers
German government acknowledges breach of hundreds of documents dating back to 2017.
Lawsuit: Weather Channel illegally shared user location data with advertisers
IBM-owned company accused of tricking app users with false disclosures.
Report: Huawei punishes employees behind embarrassing iPhone tweet
Two Huawei staffers faced pay cuts and demotions over embarrassing tweet.
Qualcomm forces Apple to stop selling iPhone 7 and 8 in Germany
A US antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm over patent licensing starts Friday.
Supersonic passenger jet firm raises $100 million, aims for 2019 test flights
Company says it remains on track for mid-2020s delivery of new planes.
Bandersnatch: The spoiler-filled, choose-your-own-opinion review
This review's structure was inspired by Netflix's solid rewind-and-try-again film.
LG’s new OLED TVs: True 4K/120Hz, variable refresh rates, HDMI 2.1, more
It's the most notable update to the lineup since 2016.
Machine learning can offer new tools, fresh insights for the humanities
From the French Revolution to the history of the novel, Big Data makes its mark.
Renewables, led by wind, provided more power than coal in Germany in 2018
This comes after the country shuttered its last coal mine.
The Kia Niro PHEV is a perfect plug-in for urban life
It's even better than the last Niro we tested, thanks to 26 miles of battery range.
Fixing photosynthesis by engineering it to recycle a toxic mistake
The worst, most important enzyme often uses the wrong chemical. We fixed that.
FCC gets a new Democrat, is back to full slate of five commissioners
Senate approves Democrat Geoffrey Starks for open FCC seat.
Chrome is getting a dark mode on Windows to match the one for macOS
Preliminary work is already done, with a look akin to incognito mode.
Dealmaster: Get a Samsung 860 EVO SSD for $68
Plus $18 off a bunch of Switch games, $50 off the Google Home Hub, and more.
The lies Comcast allegedly told customers to hide full cost of service
Minnesota AG seeks refunds, saying thousands of Comcast customers were harmed.
Bay Area: Join us 1/9 to talk about personal data security in 2019
Researcher Ashkan Soltani will discuss what happens when companies sell your data.
Texas indicts Cody Wilson on multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor
Advocate of 3D printed guns faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Wild monkeys with killer herpes are breeding like crazy in Florida
Florida man’s got nothin’ on these dirty primates.
Valve data shows PC VR ownership rose steadily in 2018
But headset owners are still less than one percent of platform's user base
Apple stock plummets 8% on news of grim Q1 2019 outlook
CEO Tim Cook's letter to investors attempts to explain problems and quell fears.
China makes history by landing on the far side of the Moon
Soon—if not already—the lander will deploy a rover named Yutu II.
Tales of an aging gamer: Why don’t I pick up a controller as often as I used to?
We keep getting older, the games stay the same (and science backs that up).
GM’s 200,000th vehicle sold triggers Federal Tax Credit phase out, Reuters says
Right behind Tesla, US automaker also faces an effective price hike for customers.
NASA probe finds a snowman-shaped relic of the early Solar System
"This may be the most primitive object seen by any spacecraft."
Netflix delivers a blow to Apple’s services story by ending in-app subscriptions
Apple is pushing services with in-app subs, but it just lost one of the biggest.
Windows 10 creeps past Windows 7 usage, latest update barely used
Windows 7 has just one more year of standard support to go.
Big Pharma ushers in new year with price hikes on hundreds of drugs
Experts expect price hikes to surge this year, with average increases of 6.5% so far.
Google’s “Project Soli” radar gesture chip isn’t dead, gets FCC approval
Soli could enable smartwatches to detect hand gestures, if it ever launches.
Ajit Pai thanks Congress for helping him kill net neutrality rules
Democratic effort to reverse repeal fell short as Congressional session ended.
A game studio with zero hardware experience is building a VR-ready console
"The most powerful console ever built" promises a confusing "VR at 60fps."
Study: Famed Domesday Book was completed later than historians thought
New analysis of surviving satellite documents puts the date between 1098 and 1114.
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