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50-year-old research issue still biting biologists
Once upon a time, researchers paid attention to the problems within their field.
Uber, Intel, and other tech firms will urge Congress to let “Dreamers” stay
Uber: "We plan to support Dreamers as long as they need help."
Report: Verizon struggling to launch streaming TV service in crowded field
It's had two delays and now plans to launch in the spring, says Bloomberg.
EPA says it won’t cut biofuel quotas after corn states push back
Agency will keep Renewable Fuel Standard despite earlier moves to help fossil fuels.
Big brains come with big social groups in whales and dolphins
Do social pressures cause the evolution of big brains? The debate is ongoing.
NASA chooses not to tell Congress how much deep space missions cost
The key question now is: Does Congress care?
In its new timeline, Twitter will end revenge porn next week, hate speech in two
The company has laid out a "safety calendar" with changes through January.
Windows now includes gaming cheat detection at the system level
Optional "TruePlay" protects game memory, monitors OS for common cheating patterns.
Nightmare fuel: Trapped in airplane seat crawling with bedbugs
Canadian family posted bite pictures afterward. Airline upgraded their next flight.
NYPD can’t get story straight on evidence system backups
Deputy commissioner says the system is "backed up"; IT staff affidavit says otherwise.
Thousands of DIY foodies sickened in outbreak from poor agricultural practices
Nationwide Salmonella infection rate has quadrupled, CDC numbers show.
VW boss attacks Tesla for “barely selling 80,000 cars a year”
The remarks were made during a discussion of the future of the auto industry.
Judge: MalwareTech is no longer under curfew, GPS monitoring
Marcus Hutchins, awaiting trial, can now live and work unencumbered in LA.
Cities around US offer billions in tax breaks to be Amazon’s HQ2
Cities and states are trying to one-up each other, showing off their best features.
Facebook is struggling to meet the burden of securing itself, security chief says
Chief Security Officer described security report as a “very painful process.”
Scientists investigate why crows are so playful
New experiments reveal a complex link between crow play and tool use.
Axon wants you (yes, you!) to submit photos, videos to police
Meet “Axon Citizen,” a new service from the company formerly known as Taser.
Alphabet leads $1 billion investment in Lyft, but is GM on the way out?
The ride-hailing service is on the ups, but GM might be headed to Uber.
Running chemical reactions in liquid metal makes atomically thin materials
Dissolving a metal in liquid metal leads to unusual chemical reactions.
The Mac mini isn’t dead yet, says Tim Cook
Cook responded to a customer e-mail to say that the Mac mini still has a future.
Couple sues PG&E for negligence, says power lines caused wildfire
California Forestry Dept. has not yet ruled on an official cause for any of the fires.
Dealmaster: Get a Dell XPS Tower desktop with 16GB of RAM for $620
Plus deals on a slew of laptops, TVs, and cameras.
Blue Origin just sent a jolt through the aerospace industry
"As Joe Biden would say, this is a BFD for the space industry."
$100 Internet bill became $340 for no reason, Frontier customer says
Overcharges continue for months despite customer service promising a fix.
Chronic gastrointestinal problems? Your dirty mouth may be partly to blame
The mouth microbes can spark haywire immune responses and are often drug resistant.
Sonos One review: A better sounding smart speaker
Sonos may have undercut Apple's HomePod before it even launches.
Denuvo’s DRM now being cracked within hours of release
Best-in-class service can't even provide a full day of protection these days.
One of the original coding schools must pay $375k over employment claims
New York's Flatiron School was ordered to alter website, hit with a hefty fine.
Google Fiber is now in Louisville thanks to new fiber deployment strategy
Microtrenching sped up work in Louisville during court battle over utility poles.
Volkswagen to take on Pikes Peak with a purpose-built electric racer
Post-Dieselgate, VW turns to electric power for racing glory.
“Security concerns” lead to LTE service shutdown on Chinese Apple Watches
The Chinese government doesn't know what to do with eSIMs yet.
iFixit rips apart the Pixel 2 XL, checks out Google’s first consumer SoC
See the internals of Google's latest flagship.
Stardock CEO talks Star Control: Origins’ player crafting and upcoming beta
Stardock CEO Brad Wardell talks new features, release date, beta, and more.
Ultimate Ears adds Amazon Alexa to Blast and Megablast speakers
$229 or $299 buys portability, IP67 water resistance, and excellent sound quality.
Nintendo Switch tiptoes toward letting users back up their data
Latest system update also enables video capture for... four games. Yes, four.
Native American tribe sues Amazon and Microsoft over patents
Can "patent trolls" advance their cause using Native American legal rights?
Apple and GE partner to make industrial analytics iOS-accessible
GE thinks the software will result in $12 billion in revenue by 2020.
Activision’s patented method to drive microtransactions with matchmaking
Unused system could push newbies to “emulate the marquee player” in pairings.
Samsung is all talk about the IoT with Bixby 2.0 and SmartThings
Samsung talked up an ambitious vision, but it’s all theoretical for now.
New cloud-friendly Lightroom has 1TB of photo storage, same UI across desktop and mobile
For the time being, the desktop-based Lightroom Classic will continue to be developed.
Charter accuses its employees of cutting cables 125 times during strike
Lawsuit: Tens of thousands of New Yorkers lost service because of vandalism.
Judge shocked to learn NYPD’s evidence database has no backup
All data would be lost if PETS’ DB2 server went down or data corrupted.
Google Play apps with as many as 2.6m downloads added devices to botnet
Your periodic reminder: Google is chronically unable to detect untrustworthy apps.
C-sections might be relaxing the evolutionary pressure against big babies
The finding helps us understand why human childbirth is so dangerous.
New neural network teaches itself Go, spanks the pros
This time, the Go-playing algorithm didn’t need any human players to help it.
Due to legal settlement, Amazon customers now get a few extra bucks
Ars staffers got as little as $0.76 and as much as $12.02. How much did you get?
Herbal remedies embraced by naturopaths, alt med widely linked to liver cancers
Asian countries where herbal treatments are rooted had the most incidence.
First floating wind farm, built by offshore oil company, delivers electricity
Anchored, floating turbines allow offshore wind installations in deep waters.
Ex-workers: Supervisors at Tesla factory routinely called us the n-word
Tesla slams such abuse but expresses doubts regarding the men's claims.
Bay Area: Join us tonight, 10/18, to talk to co-writer of Star Wars: Rogue One
Gary Whitta will talk to us about his career as a screenwriter and author in Hollywood.
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