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Musk: New Tesla summon feature will “follow you like a pet”
"Car will drive to your phone location" thanks to a forthcoming software update.
Dramatic footage of Soyuz accident shows rocket booster collision
For the second human launch in a row, there's a likely quality-control issue.
Notorious patent enforcement entity values its entire portfolio at $2, folds
Shipping & Transit LLC targeted companies including Radio Shack and JetBlue.
Danish physicists claim to cast doubt on detection of gravitational waves
LIGO responds: "There is absolutely no validity to their claims."
Hawaiian Supreme Court gives go-ahead to giant telescope
State land board's approval of construction plans survives legal challenges.
Tesla’s profitable quarter didn’t translate for Panasonic
But Panasonic's CEO is not letting Elon Musk's behavior get to him.
Spinal-cord stimulation allows three paralyzed men to walk with assistance
The technique represents huge progress, but there's still plenty of work to be done.
Verizon won’t speed up 5G buildout despite FCC preempting local fees
Verizon also lowering capital investment in 2018 despite net neutrality repeal.
Neanderthal teeth reveal lead exposure and difficult winters
Winters were hard on young Neanderthals, reports a new study.
Helium implicated in weird iPhone malfunctions
This is one of the stranger stories we've heard of smartphones malfunctioning.
Nintendo recommits to “keep the business going” for 3DS
The low-cost alternative to the Switch still sells one million in six months.
Elon Musk went on firing spree over slow satellite broadband progress
Musk fired SpaceX managers, aims to stay on schedule for mid-2019 launch.
Ars Lunch Break: Spying out ancient ruins on Earth from space
Astroarchaeologist Sarah Parcak on using futuristic tools to peer into the past.
Geoengineering could stop warming but comes with side of sea-level rise
Simulation of one way of shading the planet has some surprising side-effects.
Researchers propose a cheap nickel-hydrogen battery for grid storage
Substitute out some of the platinum catalyst, and the battery gets much cheaper.
Russian official says Soyuz rocket failure caused by an errant sensor
The Russians plan to put people back on the Soyuz rocket in about a month.
Apple to offer MacBook Pros with AMD Vega graphics starting in November
Plus, Thunderbolt 3-equipped Macs can make use of a new Blackmagic eGPU Pro.
Waymo’s excruciatingly gradual launch process, explained
Waymo began commercial service recently, and hardly anyone noticed.
Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated massive hack that stole aviation secrets
Feds say campaign hacked 13 firms in bid to help Chinese state-owned aerospace company.
“He never paid us a cent”—man suing Tesla has his own lawsuit-filled past
Researching man who sued Tesla yields unresponsive tipsters, $660k in unpaid wages.
Feds took woman’s iPhone at border, she sued, now they agree to delete data
CAIR lawyer pleasantly surprised: "We were prepared for much more pushback."
Google CEO: We need to “take a much harder line on inappropriate behavior”
Meanwhile, head of Alphabet's X suddenly resigns after being similarly accused.
New study sheds more light on what caused Millennium Bridge to wobble
Pedestrians don't necessarily need to synchronize their gaits to cause shaking.
2018 iPad Pro hands-on: Improving on the world’s best tablet
It's a new design, but the improvements that count are on the inside.
Waymo gets green light from California DMV: AVs in some cities are ok
What will cars do if they don't know what to do? Apparently, stop until they do.
Eye doctors find that WebMD symptom checker was wrong more than half the time
Symptom checkers didn't always catch cases that needed emergency care.
New MacBook Air, Mac mini hands-on: Making old favorites new again
They're (finally) updated for 2018, but they still feel pleasantly familiar.
Another Tesla with Autopilot crashed into a stationary object—the driver is suing
Florida man says Tesla oversold Autopilot's capabilities.
NASA is about to turn off the Kepler spacecraft, and it will drift away
Kepler will live on in troves of data that scientists have yet to process.
Russia’s only aircraft carrier damaged as its floating dry dock sinks
One worker missing, four injured; Admiral Kuznetsov's hull gashed by crane.
Windows 10 October 2018 Update still not released, running out of October
Latest fixes address an issue with extracting files from ZIP archives.
FCC Republican claims municipal broadband is threat to First Amendment
O'Rielly faults city-run ISPs' terms of service—but they're the same as Comcast's.
Dealmaster: Take up to 25% off an Amazon Fire HD tablet
Plus $600 off a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon or get a 128GB microSD card for $25.
Video: How do we figure out that rocks are billions of years old?
Radiometric dating tells us everything from the age of wood to the age of the Earth.
Apple confirms iOS 12.1 shipping today with 32-person Group Facetime
Dual-SIM support for iPhone XS and XR, 70 new emoji.
Before crucial holiday season, Nintendo struggles as Sony shines
Quarterly earnings show resilience for the PS4, underperformance for Switch.
Adieu, home button—Apple’s new iPad Pros have nearly edge-to-edge screens, FaceID
Apple's first USB-C iDevices, these new iPads start at $799 and ship November 7.
Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini
The machine has beefier specs and a higher price point than its predecessor.
Apple updates MacBook Air with Retina display, Touch ID
The entry-level MacBook starts at $1,199, gets a few needed updates for 2018.
Puppy Cube mini-review: 720p limits the potential, but it works surprisingly well
This projector would be great for camping trips, but it won't replace your TV at home.
Liveblog: All the news from Apple’s “more in the making” Brooklyn event
Everything that happened at Apple's event in Brooklyn.
There’s a new record-holder for closest human object to the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe gets to within 42.7 million km, and it's just getting warm.
Power sector CO2 emissions are lower than they have been since 1987
But save self-congratulation: A big part of reductions came from lower demand growth.
Feds: 4 ex-Genentech scientists stole from biotech giant to help startup
Taiwan's JHL Biotech makes "biosimilar" drugs to treat various diseases.
New Signal privacy feature removes sender ID from metadata
Just-announced beta seals sender details inside encrypted envelope.
UK set to impose new “tech tax” on Silicon Valley giants
London wants Google, Amazon, and others to "shoulder the burden of this new tax."
Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia
At the time, the Arabian Peninsula was a grassland dotted with lakes.
Big transistor senses the arrival of a single molecule
Single molecule’s one-part-in-a-trillion effect amplified to one part in five.
This is fine: IBM acquires Red Hat
Deal makes IBM the keeper of the world's largest open source software portfolio.
Researchers can now legally restore “abandoned” online game servers
Limited exemption requires original server code; games must be played on premises.
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