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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.
GM’s self-driving deal with Honda is a wakeup call for Waymo
GM deal with Honda shows how Waymo could lose early self-driving lead.
Dealmaster: Buy an Nvidia Shield and get a free Google Home Mini
Plus deals on lightning cables, Kindle Unlimited, Dell laptops, and more.
The $349 Nokia 7.1 brings a low price, flagship-style design to the US
HMD brings the flagship design (glass back, notched displays) to a cheap phone.
Bloomberg: Super Micro motherboards used by Apple, Amazon contained Chinese spy chips
Super Micro, Amazon, and Apple deny everything in the report.
Ars on your lunch break: The oddly divisible nature of consciousness
Our talk with Don Hoffman concludes with panpsychism and brain-splitting surgery.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is big, beautiful, and shallow
Come for the scenery, stay for the ridiculous amount of stuff to do.
Russian spies hacked officials to protect doping athletes, US charges
Russian hackers allegedly distributed stolen and doctored doping records.
LG’s Watch W7 looks like the dumbest smartwatch of the year
Obscuring the display with physical watch hands sounds like a great idea, right?
The deserts of Titan have organic dust storms
Cassini after death: spectral evidence for dust storms on Titan.
2017 earthquake off Mexico broke through an entire tectonic plate
Magnitude 8.2 in Mexico involved more fault movement than thought possible.
Consumer Reports agrees with Ars: GM Super Cruise beats Tesla Autopilot
Proper driver monitoring and a geofence make Super Cruise best in class.
The Orion spacecraft may carry more than NASA missions to the Moon
"I've long argued that capitalism should not stop at low-Earth orbit."
Here are the top ways people die while taking selfies and “being cool”
Researchers tallied 259 deaths worldwide, with US leading for most firearm-related ones.
A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
"Commercial space companies like SpaceX play by different rules," the op-ed states.
TiVo Bolt OTA review: For would-be cord-cutters with great antenna reception
How useful is DVR when you're not paying for some sort of cable service?
Alienware m15 laptop sports thinnest Dell gaming design, Nvidia Max-Q GPUs
It may be a gaming notebook you want to use for things other than games.
Report: A new Nintendo Switch model will arrive in 2019
WSJ cites "suppliers," admits most hardware specifics have not yet been locked down.
Review: Civilization VI on the iPhone is the full experience
The game translates to the small screen better than you might expect.
It’s been 5 years since Elon Musk proposed a Hyperloop design
Dayton to Chicago? Philly to Pittsburgh? Pune to Mumbai? Everyone has a feasibility study.
Do we have evidence for an exomoon? Ask again in a year.
If it exists, the bizarre moon is Neptune-sized, orbits a super-Jupiter.
Nobel-prize winning physicist who coined “god particle” dead at 96
Physicist coined the controversial term "the god particle" to describe the Higgs boson.
Spotify is now available on Garmin Fenix 5 Plus smartwatches
Offline music just got better for owners of Garmin's elite smartwatches.
Car crashes killed 37,133 people in the US in 2017
US roads are almost three times safer than they were 40 years ago.
Nintendo president: “I compete for time,” not against Xbox, PlayStation
NoA leader emphasizes "intellectual property" in 20-minute Seattle Q&A.
Don’t want New Zealand officials to get into your phone? Pay up to NZ$5,000
New law requires customs officials to have "reasonable cause" to force you to open it.
Nobel awarded for using Darwin’s ideas to make antibodies and catalysts
Multiple rounds of selection can get us things nature never produced.
Wi-Fi branding to get a lot simpler with upcoming “Wi-Fi 6”
New naming scheme should make it much easier to remember which one is better.
Entire broadband industry sues California to stop net neutrality law
Top broadband lobby groups sue California, claim net neutrality law is illegal.
The 2018 Kia Stinger review: Four cylinders good, six cylinders better
Starting at just $32,900, can the 255hp version compare to the more expensive V6?
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is out now
You can force it to install immediately or wait for Windows Update.
Ars on your lunch break: Nothing is real except for object impermanence
UC Irvine psychologist Dan Hoffman explains how there really is no spoon.
A little radiation may be good for you, EPA witness argues for rule change
A vaguely worded proposal could change regulations for low-dose exposures.
Cities will sue FCC to stop $2 billion giveaway to wireless carriers
After FCC vote, cities try to restore local control over 5G fees and equipment.
After more speculation about cause of ISS leak, NASA issues another statement
The ISS program is tentatively planning a spacewalk next month to get more information.
Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invest $2.75 billion
Honda will work with Cruise on a new design for a self-driving car.
Amazon’s Kindle Oasis has a new competitor: The waterproof Kobo Forma
Kobo and Walmart teamed up recently in attempts to grab some of the US e-book market.
Baby gravitational wave detector could find a home at the LHC
Gravitational wave detector directly measures force imparted by collisions.
Lockheed Martin proposes a mega-lunar lander: 62 tons and an elevator
"What we chose to do is jump to the end game."
CEO who sold phones with “totally unbreakable encryption” takes plea deal
Phantom Secure's Vincent Ramos to be sentenced soon; colleagues remain at large.
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