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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.
Corkscrew sponge sucks up carbon dioxide, ignores nitrogen
Organic crystal charge distribution sucks in CO2, but nitrogen is repulsed.
Freaky superbug poured out of NIH sinks for a decade, infecting patients
From 2006 to 2016, an aquatic bacterium creeped in clinic sinks, causing rare infections.
Nokia 9 leak shows off all five rear cameras
Crazy quintuple-camera design promises better low-light photos.
Original Star Control creators deploy nuclear option against Stardock
Steam and GOG remove Star Control: Origins from sale following DMCA takedown filing.
There is a ton of exciting space stuff on tap for 2019
New rockets, commercial crew, planetary missions, and even SpaceX's Starship.
Tesla delivered 90,700 cars in Q4, Wall Street freaks out
Tesla stock falls 8 percent on disappointing Q4 production numbers.
Roku Channel now lets users sign up for new streaming services with one click
One monthly bill from Roku will organize all of these subscription payments.
New Horizons has a successful flyby of the Kuiper Belt’s bowling pin
Ultima Thule may have two lobes or be two closely orbiting objects.
Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon—here’s what that means
The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot.
Killing in the name of: The US Army and video games
From the archives: The US Army has long used video games for training and recruitment.
Netflix welcomes 2019 with Stranger Things 3 release date: July 4
"One summer can change everything."
Let’s kick off 2019 by pondering the dismal future prospects for humanity
UK Astronomer Royal Martin Rees chats with Ars about his new book On the Future.
What could have wiped 3km of rock off the entire Earth?
Some evidence for the cause of geology’s Great Unconformity.
A bewildered, far-from-conclusive look at the state of public gaming in Tokyo
Gallery: A snapshot look at Japanese arcades, merch shops, and board game cafes.
Review: Changeling mixes the best parts of podcasts and horror novels into one
Writing a novel as if it were a podcast makes for some suspenseful storytelling.
June postscript: 5 unusual things you can make in an Internet-connected oven
The June helps you push toaster oven boundaries... with more and less success.
Report: Tesla has more than 3,300 Model 3s remaining in US inventory
Tesla pushed to sell as many vehicles as possible before full Federal Tax Credit ends.
The secret to champagne’s universal appeal is the physics of bubbles
"Come quickly brothers, I am drinking stars!" —Dom Perignon, 17-century monk.
Bikes, bowling balls, and the delicate balancing act that is modern recycling
From the archives: Ars goes inside the machines that make modern recycling work.
Offshore, Act Two: New owner repowers 20-year-old wind farm off Swedish coast
The upgrade doubled the installation's yearly output, prolonged its life by 15 years.
Book tells the inside story of how Reddit came to be the Internet’s “id”
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin dishes the dirt on Reddit's founding in We Are the Nerds.
The 2018 Cars Technica cars and SUVs of the year
More Arsians joined the reviewing fun, and the death of the sedan was prematurely announced.
Mining co. says first autonomous freight train network fully operational
The system reduces the number of times a train has to stop for engineer shift changes.
The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018
Big companies struggled but small ones moved forward.
EPA says regulation of mercury emissions not “appropriate and necessary”
Current rule will be left in place, but action could prevent more stringent regulation.
The Orville blends science fiction and science fact into a winning mix
Ars chats with writer/producer Andre Bormanis as the FOX series makes its S2 debut.
Without question, these are 2018’s best space books for kids
From Hidden Figures to Curiosity, we all can be awed by the great unknown.
Caltech scientists use DNA tiles to play tic-tac-toe at the nanoscale
Being able to switch out tiles could one day lead to reconfigurable nanomachines.
Under current policies, residential batteries increase emissions in most cases
Optimizing battery use to minimize emissions is possible, but generally overly expensive.
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