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Political ads on Twitter will now be labeled with lots of spending data
Follows mounting congressional pressure about social media ads and disclosure.
The LA Metro wants tech firms to help it launch a new kind of transit
MicroTransit would involve virtual stops and routes that change based on demand.
Dealmaster: Grab a Dell desktop PC with 16GB of RAM for $620
Plus deals on Amazon Kindle devices, Vizio 4K TVs, and more.
Congress opens probe into FBI’s handling of Clinton e-mail investigation
“Congress has a constitutional duty to preserve the integrity of our justice system.”
The latest Pixel 2 issues: A high-pitched whine and clicking noises
Some users are told a software fix is in the works.
New wave of data-encrypting malware hits Russia and Ukraine
Highly advanced "Bad Rabbit" hits train stations, airport, and media.
Jails pocket up to 60 percent of what inmates pay for phone calls
"Site commissions" raise prices by sending up to 60 percent of revenue to jails.
Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors
Despite egregious ethics, law enforcement can do nothing. Families left aghast.
Singapore freezes private car ownership to fight congestion
The city-state says 12 percent of its land is already devoted to roads.
Your old GameCube controllers now work with the Nintendo Switch
Stealth update could pave the way for Virtual Console, new Smash Bros..
Self-driving startup nuTonomy bought by Delphi for $400 million
The self-driving dominoes continue to fall.
New York City’s future storm risk dominated by sea level rise
New analysis says hurricanes will mostly pass offshore as oceans keep rising.
TiVo embraces voice controls in new Bolt Vox, Mini Vox, and Vox Remote
The rumored voice-control remote with Netflix button is now a reality.
Real-life zombies tend to be the fast ones, neuroscience study suggests
Those who wander in their sleep beat controls at distracted movement tests.
Balloon navigation breakthrough helps extend cell service in Puerto Rico
Alphabet's Project Loon is providing connectivity to hard-hit areas of the island.
Engare review: The geometry of Islamic art becomes a treasure of a game
Delightful math-art puzzle game for adults and children alike.
DOJ changes “gag order” policy, Microsoft to drop lawsuit
Brad Smith, Microsoft's attorney: "It is an unequivocal win for our customers."
Korean banks sue Newegg, allege online retailer aided massive fraud
Both Newegg, ASI will "vigorously defend" their companies and deny wrongdoing.
Canadian regulators have blocked Soylent, producers say
Soylent reportedly doesn't meet the CFIA's requirement for "meal replacement."
We need to talk about “Lethe,” last night’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery
The show has come into its own with an intense, addictive Klingon conspiracy theory
FBI Director: unbreakable encryption is a “huge, huge problem”
“I get it, there’s a balance that needs to be struck,” Christopher Wray said.
Now we know why Xbox One backward compatibility took so long
Response to "always on" Internet fiasco put "back compat" on the backburner.
Crippling crypto weakness opens millions of smartcards to cloning
Gemalto IDPrime.NET almost certainly isn't the only smartcard vulnerable to ROCA.
New teardown brings more smoke to reports of a touchscreen Google Home
This could explain why Google pulled YouTube from Amazon’s touchscreen speaker.
After Supreme Court detour, Apple v. Samsung goes to a fourth jury trial
Apple wields design as a weapon, a strategy that has led to judicial paralysis.
Of course Star Trek: Discovery will come back for Season 2
You didn’t think this was the last you’d see of the spore drive, did you?
Police body cams had no “statistically significant effect” in DC
"There was no indication that the cameras changed behavior at all."
Kaspersky pledges independent code review to cast off spying suspicions
After accusations by DHS of ties to Russian intel, company seeks to reassure customers.
Cray supercomputers coming to Azure cloud
New offering is aimed at simulation, modeling, and other HPC tasks.
Returning to Second Life
Long after its grandest ambitions have faded, the platform still boasts people and profit.
The Essential Phone gets a $200 price drop, now $499
The Essential Phone is a lot more competitive with the lower price.
Unreleased Super NES game to come packed with every Analogue Super Nt
Super Turrican: Director's Cut unearths the uncut 6 Mbit version of the game.
Proposed law would regulate online ads to hinder Russian election influence
Honest Ads Act requires Google, Twitter, Facebook to open ads to public review.
Two-week-old Pixel 2 XL displays are already showing burn-in
LG's terrible OLED panels have yet another issue.
Taikonaut seeks to fly again, pledges “absolute loyalty” as CPC member
"Let the vastness of space witness the absolute loyalty of a revolutionary soldier."
Mercedes handles the competition because it knows how to handle data, too
Ahead of (another) Mercedes win, Ars gets a look at the team's network stack.
Tesla strikes a deal to open a factory in Shanghai, WSJ sources say
Electric car maker would likely still pay the nation’s 25 percent tariff.
You’ll never see a more touching film about a 72-year-old alien experiencer
Love & Saucers: David Huggins has an unremarkable life—well, minus lifelong alien affairs.
Nintendo Switch’s first portable dock offers freedom, but with new shackles
Nyko dock delivers a much-needed option—but it comes with serious dealbreakers.
How Jane Goodall became Jane Goodall
New documentary is based on footage from the man who would become Goodall's ex-husband.
Evolution experiment has now followed 68,000 generations of bacteria
It’s basically a time machine. For bacteria.
Several women accuse tech pundit Robert Scoble of sexual assault, harassment
"I felt one hand on my breast and his arm reaching around and grabbing my butt."
COâ‚‚ benefits of regrowing forests nothing to sniff at
Land use shifts could provide over a third of our needed emissions cuts.
Here are sci-fi inspired supplies for binging Stranger Things next weekend
Ganache, Fluff, and chocolate round out our baked ‘80s horror-food extravaganza.
Artificial eye dominance may speed reading for people with dyslexia
Flashing lights, eye-dominance test correlates eye physiology and dyslexia.
Gran Turismo Sport review: A brilliant, but very new, direction for the series
The latest game in this legendary franchise is all about racing online and e-sports.
Key e-mail from feds got caught in body-cam maker’s spam filter
Axon hopes "to resolve these matters as expeditiously as possible."
Report: Twitter CEO took a Russian impostor’s bait in 2016
The retweets were for innocent, “positive" stories.” And that was the point.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is digging a 10-mile tunnel in Maryland
The venture follows Musk’s recent obsession with tunneling equipment.
Archaeologists are mystified by ancient “gates” in Saudi lava fields
Google Earth reveals hundreds of geoglyphs in the desert, possibly 9,000 years old.
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