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Anna and the Apocalypse: A zombie-Christmas-high school musical can’t be this good
Prepare your undead emotions—2017 Fantastic Fest gem finally hits theaters this weekend.
Palm Phone Review: Fun, endearing, and bad at everything
Palm's tiny phone looks like a comedy prop, but the real joke is the battery life.
It took seven miles to pull over a Tesla with a seemingly asleep driver
The driver was arrested for drunk driving.
A time loop meets the multiverse in Happy Death Day 2U’s first trailer
A new masked maniac and physics experiment gone awry keep our heroine on edge.
Tariffs on Chinese rare-earth minerals create a sticky problem for US competitors
Rare-earth minerals mined in the US need to be sent to China for processing.
New software will let artists control how light interacts with objects
Dartmouth computer scientists teamed up with experts from Pixar and Disney.
Marriott breach leaves 500 million exposed with passport, card numbers stolen
Motivations of hackers are unclear, but proprietary Wi-Fi may have been a target.
Tesla has a problem with racism in its factory—so do many of its rivals
NYT report is the latest example of black autoworkers enduring racist acts and language.
Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection—then puts all of it on eBay
"This is the only copy!" and "I backed everything up because I knew Sierra didn't."
The fight against measles has taken a turn for the worse
An overall downward trend reversed between 2016 and 2017.
Microsoft Office has pretty new icons but they have a fatal flaw
The new icons leave me feeling blue.
Soy milk, almond milk, oat milk. Spider milk?
Wonder how the FDA is going to classify this one.
Archaeologists map centuries of history beneath world’s oldest cathedral
With lasers and radar, archaeologists map centuries of buried Roman history.
Scientists, ethicists slam decisions behind gene-edited twins
The Chinese government has already shut down any further work by He Jiankui.
Apple Music arrives on Amazon’s Echo speakers starting December 17
Subscribers can ask Alexa to play tracks, playlists, and radio stations.
Rocket Report: Russia’s nuclear rocket, airspace wars, BFR changes explained
"Musk is still trying to find the sweet spot between performance... and cost."
The bloodbath continues: Netflix cancels Daredevil after three seasons
It's the third Defenders series to find itself on the chopping block this fall.
France to retire 14 nuclear reactors while Japan restarts 5 of its reactors
Nuclear has struggled worldwide, while offshore wind could offset some retirements.
Floyd Mayweather fined $600,000 for undisclosed cryptocurrency plugs
The boxing champ endorsed Centra, whose founders now face federal fraud charges.
NASA takes a tangible step back toward the Moon with commercial program
NASA is betting that commercial companies are finally ready for Moon missions.
Nailing down the nature of ‘Oumuamua—it’s probably a comet, but…
We spoke at length with Harvard astronomy chair Avi Loeb, and there's a lot to unpack.
Congress: Amazon didn’t give “sufficient answers” about facial recognition
"Does Amazon Rekognition contain a mechanism for… deleting unused biometric data?"
How a phone app detected Sprint’s alleged throttling of Skype
User tests indicate throttling, but there's some room for doubt.
Luther is back and as broody as ever in new trailer for fifth season
"Sexiest man alive" Idris Elba reprises his role as the bane of serial killers.
The Audi A4 versus the Audi S5 reviewed—sometimes less is more
Style and a V6 are no match for the simplicity of a stick shift.
Trump tried to rescue coal. Instead, coal capacity retirements doubled in 2018
Coal consumption around the world is the next big problem to tackle.
Microsoft wins $480 million military contract to bring HoloLens to the battlefield
The contract should see the military buy more than 100,000 headsets.
Adult Swim, Crunchyroll announce first-ever co-production: A Blade Runner anime
Black Lotus "inspired" by 2049, brings back Cowboy Bebop's Watanabe as producer.
US life expectancy continues to move in reverse
Drug overdoses and suicide play an important role in the increasing death rate.
Feds: AriseBank duped investors out of over $4M in cryptocurrency scam
AriseBank had been endorsed by celebrity boxer Evander Holyfield.
Nightflyers has the blood, body count we expect from George R.R. Martin
Showrunner Jeff Buhler talks about the challenges of adapting the novella for TV.
Mass router hack exposes millions of devices to potent NSA exploit
Years-old UPnP vulnerability being used to expose ports 139 and 445.
Nintendo ends controversial YouTube revenue-sharing program
Videos with Nintendo content now need to include "creative input and commentary"
High-density lithium in graphene: An intriguing battery possibility
Bi-layer graphene creates high-density lithium, may increase battery capacity.
Starbucks will begin filtering pornography from its Wi-Fi networks
Starbucks promised to block porn in 2016 but was slow to follow through.
Pixel Slate review: Paying the “Google” premium for Chrome OS
Starting at $599, the overpriced tablet showcases Chrome OS' promising tablet future.
Good drive, good value: The Jeep Compass Latitude reviewed
Tradeoffs are minimal with this budget, subcompact SUV.
Facebook pondered, for a time, selling access to user data
Ars simply copy-pasted a 2017 court document into a text editor to reveal redactions.
Putting Nintendo Switch’s 8.2 million US Switch sales in context
First 20 months of sales data puts Nintendo's hybrid console in rarified company.
Windows 10 1809: iCloud incompatibility fixed, but other blockers remain
The most awkward of these is a video card incompatibility.
Black box data shows pilots fought control system in Indonesia crash
Flight data shows bad sensor data kept forcing nose of aircraft down.
Congress has refused to restore net neutrality as Dec. 10 deadline nears
There's almost no Republican support for forcing vote to restore net neutrality.
Dealmaster: Get a $100 Apple App Store and iTunes gift card for $85
Plus deals on Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Bose's QuietComfort 35 II, and more.
DOJ made secret arguments to break crypto, now ACLU wants to make them public
In MS-13 case, ACLU is challenging sealing of DOJ filings, judge's order.
The Boring Company won’t pursue LA tunnel under 405 freeway anymore
Wealthier neighborhoods have more resources to object to tunnels.
Plot twist: Mitochondrial DNA can come from both parents
Study confirms rare paternal mitochondrial transmission in three families.
Sennheiser discloses monumental blunder that cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs
Poorly secured certificate lets hackers impersonate any website on the Internet.
Bose Einstein condensate may reveal supersolid’s secrets
BEC droplets form crystal that may have supersolid-like properties.
Netflix’s anime announcement frenzy, capped off by live-action Cowboy Bebop
Plus, Neon Genesis Evangelion's "world streaming debut," new Ultraman.
Two weeks in, Fallout 76 is a lonely, glitchy, flawed mess
The online-only post-apocalypse has great moments overshadowed by an empty world.
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