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Amazon attempts less-creepy delivery by placing packages in your garage
Amazon's still trying to get customers to open up part of their homes for deliveries.
Razer announces a gaming monitor, haptic feedback PC gaming peripherals
And did we mention RGB? So, so much RGB.
Almost $500,000 in Ethereum Classic coin stolen by forking its blockchain
Rollback attack let attackers spend 88,500 previously spent coins.
Mads Mikkelsen goes full-on John Wick in new trailer for Netflix’s Polar
He rocks a stylin' eyepatch and nifty laser gloves that control his machine guns.
Court: Politicians who block citizens on social media violate 1st Amendment
4th Circuit: County official's Facebook page is a public forum, must accept all.
Next-generation ThinkPad X1: More carbon fiber for one, aluminum for the other
The annual refresh puts the focus on building materials.
Lenovo’s Legion laptops are gaming machines you won’t be embarrassed to use
Turn off the RGB lighting and they won't look out of place at work.
Unlimited private repositories now available to free GitHub users
Previously private repos were exclusive to paid accounts.
Zeroday exploit prices are higher than ever, especially for iOS and messaging apps
As security improves, demand for hacks grows, creating a super-heated market.
Envious of 5G hype, cable cos. unveil potentially confusing “10G” trademark
But we're still waiting for 1Gbps upload speeds.
HTC’s newest VR headsets: Vive Pro Eye for PC, Vive Cosmos for untethered VR
New pair of headsets announced at HTC's Monday CES press conference.
LG introduces OLED TV that rolls up and disappears when you’re not watching it
It won't be cheap, but it's finally a real product.
“Scary” reality: Meds tainted with germs, glass, carcinogens, mystery particles
"Our drug quality is probably not what we think it is."
TIL: Firefox has a little-known feature to spare your blushes on the new-tab page
Open source browser tries to avoid publicizing your dirtier computing habits.
There’s suspense but little magic in new teasers for Amazon’s Hanna
Esme Creed-Miles of Dark River fame takes on the titular role.
The next Alien project will be a mixed-media experience in 2019 [Updated]
First up: mobile-only game Alien: Blackout. Then, a "massively multiplayer shooter."
Frontier letting its phone network fall apart, state investigation finds
State: Frontier has refused to issue refunds despite frequent, lengthy outages.
AT&T decides 4G is now “5G,” starts issuing icon-changing software updates
AT&T starts swapping out "4G" status bar icons with "5GE."
Archaeologists discover first known temple to “flayed god” Xipe Totec
It’s as macabre and as fascinating as you’d expect.
New Samsung Smart TVs will soon have iTunes built in, support AirPlay 2
Reaching more eyeballs ahead of Apple's impending streaming service debut.
These 12 FreeSync monitors will soon be compatible with Nvidia’s G-Sync
Move opens Nvidia's variable refresh rate tech to some cheaper displays.
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.
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