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Crowdsourced gaming of Google Translate dubs Kim Jong Un “Mr. Squidward”
User-guided learning opens up opportunity for shenanigans.
Microsoft was leading the world in AR; now it’s at risk of being left behind
HoloLens was inspirational, but it’s ARKit and ARCore that are going to win developers.
Why the US and Japan didn’t shoot down latest North Korean missile
Ballistic missile passes over Hokkaido as US, South Korea hold military exercise.
Man in jail 2 years for refusing to decrypt drives. Will he ever get out?
Defendant to ask Supreme Court if compelled decryption is a 5th Amendment breach.
Net neutrality comment deadline is tomorrow; 21.9 million comments in so far
If you haven't told the FCC what you think yet, now is the time.
How NASA’s Johnson Space Center is riding out the hurricane
The Johnson Space Center is still managing ISS mission control and Webb testing.
Absolver hides its depth and beauty amid obtuse design
A complex, multiplayer martial arts fantasy needs better tutorials to match.
Uber to stop tracking customers after ride is over
Uber app was programmed to monitor riders for five minutes after trip was done.
Google’s ARCore brings augmented reality to millions of Android devices
Forget Project Tango, ARCore covers most AR use cases with no special hardware required.
Carbon-neutral synthetic fuel: A dream for car makers facing tighter standards
Bosch says synthetic fuels have potential to slow the release of CO into the atmosphere.
What Ford’s pizza delivery experiment says about its autonomy strategy
We'll know Ford is serious about deliveries when it makes much smaller vehicles.
An appreciation of Game of Thrones‘ White Walkers from a zombie diehard
Even a Thrones n00b can appreciate the show's smart zombie mechanics.
The 2017 S60 Polestar is a most intriguing car
As a way to see how far Volvo has come in just a few short years, it’s illuminating.
Horrible or non-existent Mayweather-McGregor fight streams prompt lawsuit
Showtime “knowingly failed to disclose that its system was defective,” suit says.
Dubious stem cell clinic got hold of smallpox vaccine. FDA just took it away
Agency warns of crackdown on “deceitful actors” and investigates the vaccine’s origins.
Game of Thrones has become a CW show
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, if you don’t mind slaloming around plotholes.
Waiting for Destiny 2 on PC just got harder thanks to a drool-worthy beta
We come away stunned by the series’ first-ever HDR implementation of 4K/60fps.
Tech support scam victims lost $120 million—and will get $10 million back
Defendants are too broke to pay full refunds.
Steam reviewers bomb Dota 2 over lack of Half-Life 3
One reviewer: “Dota killed Half-Life 3. Nuff said.”
One of 1st-known Android DDoS malware infects phones in 100 countries
Move over, IoT. Attackers are abusing a new widely used platform to knock out sites.
Project SAM gave a paralyzed racer his wheels back—and he took us for a spin
"For the first time in 17 years, I feel normal, just driving," says Sam Schmidt.
Fitness company that took its patent case to Supreme Court gets $1.6M fee award
Octane Fitness had to fight off an “old patent... just sitting on the shelf.”
Suit blaming iPhone for student’s death by texting driver is defeated by Apple
Judge agrees with Apple that it has no legal duty to combat distracted driving.
Bucking FDA, Peter Thiel funds “patently unethical” herpes vaccine trial
With no FDA or institutional oversight, investors hope to send a message.
Tropical Storm Harvey takes out 911 centers, cell towers, and cable networks
148,000 Internet, TV, and phone customers lost service in storm's wake.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a great introduction to tactical RPGs
Odd combo is more peanut butter and chocolate than, say, steak and chocolate.
US government burying head deeper in sand on climate change
An apparently widespread effort to ignore reality by the federal government.
Junk call nightmare flooded woman with hundreds of bizarre phone calls a day
Kim France gets a lot of calls—but nothing prepared her for receiving 700 a day.
IP lawyer who represented TiVo is Trump’s pick as USPTO chief
Andrei Iancu has enforced patents for TiVo and Immersion Corp.
Aston Martin is the latest car maker to announce an all-hybrid or EV future
Its CEO says one in four Aston Martins will be purely electric by 2030.
Now Dell has a mixed reality headset, and the XPS 13 has 8th-gen Intel CPUs
Look to Dell's newest notebooks for the latest Intel processors.
Meet Fitbit’s newest device, the Fitbit Ionic smartwatch
Fitbit now has a device to compete with Apple Watch and Android Wear devices.
SteamVR games coming to Microsoft’s $299 VR platform
$399 bundles will also include motion controllers.
Uber board has a surprise new CEO pick: Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi
Board reportedly took a last-minute turn away from HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman.
With CrashPlan getting out of the consumer cloud backup game, what’s next best?
Yet another unlimited cloud storage company is scaling back its offerings.
Ingrid Goes West revels in everything wrong with Instagram celebrities
Aubrey Plaza is terrific as a social media addict in search of viral fame.
Conditions like those inside Neptune cause diamond formation
More evidence for diamond-rich planets, an idea that’s been debated for 30 years.
Hearing voices? You might just be primed for it
The results help to explain what causes audible hallucinations.
Dystopian What Happened To Monday? may hint at Netflix’s film priorities
One actor in many roles, a population-controlled future—so Hunger Games plus Orphan Black?
Mayweather-McGregor piracy sites on the ropes: Are they down for the count?
Promoters are expected to earn up to $1 billion tonight from pay-per-view buys.
Secret Service conducts live test of ShotSpotter system at White House
For years, gunshot detection has been bought, criticized by cities nationwide.
Is a 200-300 mile range enough for Tesla to break into electric trucking?
Changes already coming to the trucking industry could make this a viable market for Tesla.
Experimental rocker EMA talks VR, the Dark Web, and hiding behind screens
Acclaimed musician talks to Ars on the eve of her stellar new album's launch.
Q&A: American Gods S1 post-mortems with Bilquis, Technical Boy
Actors Yetide Badaki and Bruce Langley each had pretty memorable seasons.
Court: Locating suspect via stingray definitely requires a warrant
But, judge rules in Ellis, cops didn't need warrant due to "exigent circumstances."
The hottest new board games from Gen Con 2017
A master roundup of our favorites from America's biggest tabletop convention.
We say happy birthday to Goldeneye 007 by looking at my 20-year-old review
My decades-old text didn't age quite as well as the Rare FPS classic.
MalwareTech’s legal defense fund bombarded with fraudulent donations
At least $150,000 in donations were from stolen or fake credit card numbers.
VW engineer sentenced to 40 months in prison for role in emissions cheating
German automaker asked its US employee to perfect the cheat code, and he did it.
The Babylonians discovered a strange form of trigonometry
The Middle Eastern civilization created a trig table 1,000 years before the Greeks.
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