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Updated 2025-07-07 23:00
iOS 12.0.1 arrives with fixes for a couple of early user complaints
It's a minor one, but it's the first update to iOS 12.
Hubble Space Telescope taken offline after gyroscope failure
The instrument has literally discovered the age, size, and fate of our Universe.
Intel goes up to 8 cores for mainstream chips, with a 28 core overclockable Xeon
The new array of desktop processors will arrive over the next few months.
Microsoft announces Project Xcloud—Xbox game streaming for myriad devices
The service is intended to reach not just PC and console gamers but mobile, too.
Limo firm to judge: Tell us whether Uber drivers are employees
"Is providing rides an integral part of Uber's business?"
Hurricane Michael is a rare, but not unprecedented, October storm
Florida is a hurricane magnet in October.
Google+ shutting down after data leak affecting 500,000 users
Citing "significant challenges," failed social network will be put out to pasture.
Dealmaster: Take 25% off a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon and more Columbus Day deals
Plus deals on the Amazon Echo, Nokia 6.1, smart home gear, and much more.
Apple to Congress: Chinese spy-chip story is “simply wrong”
"Our internal investigations directly contradict every consequential assertion."
Next generation of body cams for cops can livestream, detect gunshots
Company formerly known as Taser also announces new energy weapon, new training.
Here’s what it would take to stop climate change sooner
New IPCC report explains value and difficulty of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
After throttling firefighters, Verizon praises itself for “sav[ing] lives”
Verizon tries to repair reputation after throttling firefighters during wildfire.
Groundbreaking maker of gentle factory robots shuts down
Friendly Baxter faced strong competition from smaller, lighter rivals.
Beautiful 3D model of stars explains changes in brightness
Helium absorbs light, heats star. Star expands, blows off material, collapses.
Hands-on: Fallout 76 lets you bring some company to the Apocalypse
A fun few hours wandering the wasteland with teammates.
Are super-cheap solar fields in the Middle East just loss-leaders?
Recent solar projects have offered solar energy for less than 3 cents/kWh. Is that right?
Facebook unveils smart displays, promises not to snoop on your video calls
Both Portal devices technically rival Amazon's Echo Show, but they have Alexa built in.
A rocket goes up, a rocket comes down. The photos are something else
Skies at the notoriously fogged-in California launch site were clear.
Echo Show 2018 review: Seeing is believing, and there’s a lot more to see
Even YouTube makes an appearance on the new $229 Echo Show.
Physics holds the key to performing the flipping water bottle trick
Viral craze makes ideal classroom demo of conservation of angular momentum.
SpaceX has landed on the West Coast for the first time [Updated]
This was SpaceX's 17th launch this year.
Coming soon from Google: The Pixel 3, Google Home Hub, Pixel Slate, and more
Also a Google Home Hub, a new Chromecast, and maybe some more Pixel Buds.
The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists”
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive.
Wind power makes the ground warmer even as it cools the planet
So if US switched entirely to wind turbines, what is the trade-off?
Data-deletion bug forces Microsoft to suspend rollout of Windows 10 update
The bug had been reported by insiders, but it looks like nothing was done about it.
The first trailer for Good Omens will make you long for the end of times
A demon (David Tennant) and an angel (Michael Sheen) team up as unlikely allies.
Energy Department proposes funding for Ohio’s first offshore wind project
20 megawatt Lake Erie project won't significantly impact the environment, DOE says.
Feds to judge: We still think we can put GPS trackers on cars entering US
Top HSI official makes assertion after judge already ruled against this legal position.
Cody Wilson was Defense Distributed—so who is the organization’s new leader?
New DefDist leader Paloma Heindorff: a much lower profile, similar beliefs to Cody Wilson.
Century: Eastern Wonders makes cardboard spice trading fun again
Sequel to Century: Spice Road is even better when the two games are combined.
The warring old and new gods are back in American Gods S2 teaser trailer
Roiled by rumors of production woes, set tensions, the series returns to Starz in 2019
Silk Road admin could face up to 20 years after pleading guilty to drug charge
Gary Davis, of Ireland, previously told Ars that he vowed to appeal extradition.
Lucasfilm releases an image, title, and more for its live-action Star Wars series
Fans of Boba Fett will be pleased, though it involves a different bounty hunter.
Lawyers for Vizio Smart TV owners propose final deal, around $20 per person
Years after ProPublica exposed TV maker, lawyers will make millions from lawsuit.
Ajit Pai faces rare criticism from GOP senator on rural broadband failures
Pai promised economic analysis of funding cuts but didn't deliver, Thune says.
Fitbit data used to charge 90-year-old man in gruesome hacking murder case
Her heart rate spiked, then vanished moments before suspect’s car left her driveway.
How to get that great “hoppy” beer taste without the exploding bottles
Hops are not the chemically inert ingredient many brewers assumed, study finds.
Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
It's clear someone isn't telling the truth, but we don't know who.
Samsung’s obscenely expensive 85-inch 8K TV ships later this month
8K TVs are here, but there's virtually no content, so what's the point?
ICESat-2 successfully starts lasering Earth, telling us about it
Satellite tracks glaciers and sea ice by measuring surface height.
Qubits kept together by shouting at them with microwaves
Microwaves plus clever tricks make qubits more immune to noise.
An insider’s perspective on Fukushima and everything that came after
Ars chats with Naomi Hirose, who became TEPCO's CEO after the Fukushima meltdown.
Rocket Report: SpaceX targeted, Chinese rocket scientist goes viral, SLS slips?
Zhang was "most crucial to the development process," had "irreplaceable" talents.
Hate your Comcast broadband? Verizon might sell you 5G home Internet
Verizon targets cities dominated by cable, citing customer demand for competition.
Venom film review: Stupid, but still good enough to bite your head off
Genuine fun and laughs await—once the titular anti-hero arrives.
Twitter-inspired You Might Be the Killer is coming to Syfy this weekend
Chuck Wendig and Sam Sykes' viral Twitter tale makes for a surprisingly good film.
Elon Musk isn’t on his Twitter leash yet, so he’s taunting the SEC
Tesla stock falls as Musk tweets sarcastically about the securities law agency.
Company that sucks CO2 from air announces a new methane-producing plant
Company says net negative emissions need to start now to limit global warming.
There’s new evidence confirming bias of the “father of scientific racism”
Paper bolsters Samuel Morton's science, affirms his unconscious racial bias.
The 2019 Jetta review: A quintessentially American Volkswagen
Bigger and cheaper than ever, but the interior tech is where it shines.
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