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NASA’s plasma rocket making progress toward a 100-hour firing
Now, the company is firing VASIMR for about five minutes at a time.
AMD Threadripper 1950X review: Better than Intel in almost every way
Cheaper, faster, and more feature-rich than Skylake-X—what's not to love?
Investors poured millions into a storage network that doesn’t exist yet
Filecoin is expected to raise millions in an initial coin offering.
Heal thyself: Skin-zapping chip aims to reprogram cells for tissue repair
With an electrical pulse, skin cells form blood vessels and neurons in early animal work.
Reuters: Tesla looking to start testing autonomous semi in “platoon” formation
The company’s CEO has mentioned that a formal announcement will come in September.
The BMW i3 revisited: A better battery solves half its problems
But the battery should be retrofittable, and ex-lease i3s are getting really cheap.
Facing libel lawsuit, Techdirt takes large donations to broaden coverage
Charles Koch Foundation and a charity from the Craigslist founder are among the donors.
Maybe Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC suggests
By saying mobile is good enough, FCC could find that deployment problem is solved.
Rez Infinite on PC is a better game—all because of mouse support
Now supports all PC VR headsets and controllers, plus added PC visual boosts.
As eclipse madness spreads, so do conspiracy theories
"It’s depressing how quickly this bollocks spreads."
ACLU: Absent warrant standard, police could monitor anyone via location data
Opening brief filed in Carpenter, an important privacy case pending at Supreme Court.
Valve announces Artifact, a Dota-themed digital card game
Lay cards in three lanes (or however exactly the game works) sometime in 2018.
US government’s grim climate summary draft gets unofficially published
Fate of congressionally mandated report uncertain in the face of Trump’s disbelief.
Disney to give Netflix the white-gloved Mickey middle finger in 2019
Curiously, the announcement doesn’t mention superheroes or galaxies far, far away.
Fallout board game announced as competitive four-player RPG adventure
Launching in “Q4 2017” from Fantasy Flight Games, set in worlds of Fallout 3 and 4.
One broadband choice still counts as “competition” after court decision
AT&T and Verizon can charge more for business data, but lawsuit is still pending.
Suspected sextortionist hiding behind Tor is outed by booby-trapped video
"Brian Kil" terrorized minors for years. Last month, a hack gave agents a big break.
Mazda says it has made a long-awaited breakthrough in engine technology
Many others had given up trying to make homogeneous charge compression ignition work.
Chic, plant-based “Impossible Burger” meets FDA that’s hungry for data
Company sought extra assurance from the FDA, but it got safety concerns instead.
Dealmaster: Get a quad-core Dell desktop with 16GB RAM for $599
Plus deals on Xbox One S, Oculus Rift headsets, wireless earbuds, and more.
Trump’s space leader says SpaceX is outstanding, but…
"I think this is somewhat dangerous," Scott Pace has said of commercial crew.
Toshiba Portégé x30 review: What can work laptops learn from consumer devices?
Toshiba's take on modernizing the typically boring work-issued clamshell.
New icons are YouTube’s latest way to alert creators of video demonetization
Plus, there's now a quicker way to ask for a review of demonetized videos.
Intel 18-core Core i9-7980XE launches September 25 for $2,000
Sports a 2.6GHz base clock and 4.4GHz boost—but can it combat AMD's Threadripper?
Fortnite poisons a potentially great game with agonizing F2P limits
"Paid early access" experiment starts strong, but economics ruin the potential.
Ars Asks: A defiant in-depth defense against dastardly drones
We’ve got one last survey, and we’d appreciate your help with it!
How one hot sauce seller hauled Uber into small-claims court and won $4,000
A driver took off with Dane Wilcox's laptop, and Uber refused to pay him back.
Uber’s ex-CEO: Given reason for alleged Waymo data heist is “f***ing dumb”
Kalanick also said that Levandowski "should say what happened" rather than clam up.
Google fires engineer who “crossed the line” with diversity memo
Google says the post “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender.”
“Driverless van” is just a VT researcher in a really good driver’s seat costume
Virginia Tech is studying reactions to driverless cars and they’re just as you’d expect.
Straightening dental wire twists intestines of a woman—a decade later
The bit of wire pierced several spots and caused the intestines to twist around itself.
National Ignition Facility recreates the interior of heavy stars
Laser facility can create conditions like the interior of a 10 solar mass star.
“Podcasting patent” is totally dead, appeals court rules
Federal Circuit stands by 2015 ruling that knocked out Personal Audio’s patent.
Faraday Future raises $14m, leases old factory for future electric car line
After walking back plans for new factories, old Fresno factory is more realistic.
Mozilla’s new file-transfer service isn’t perfect, but it’s drop-dead easy
For less high-stakes uses, Send offers reasonable security and privacy assurances.
1,000-year-old German dinner reveals long-distance Viking trade routes
Freeze-dried cod proves the Icelandic Sagas were sometimes historically accurate.
Spelunky creator finally returns with a new game—er, 50 of them
Indie-gaming wizards have an answer to NES Classic shortages, and it’s called UFO 50.
Radio navigation set to make global return as GPS backup, because cyber
GPS killed the radio nav in 2010, but a high-def version is set to return.
Data cap analysis found almost 200 ISPs imposing data limits in the US
Examination of 2,500 home Internet providers finds sizable minority with caps.
Apple opens new Instagram account, populates it with photos from #ShotoniPhone
Tech giant may actually post regularly to this social media account ahead of the fall.
Australian teen chewed and bloodied after bizarre ocean feeding frenzy
Teen takes ocean dip, becomes buffet lunch for gang of scavenging crustaceans.
Android 8.0’s “streaming OS updates” will work even if your phone is full
Android's new OS update scheme should banish the "insufficient space" error forever.
The Voyagers have reached an anniversary worth celebrating
New documentary shows the human and scientific drama behind the iconic spacecraft.
There’s a new Rick and Morty meme generator, andit’s both amazing and bleak
"Master of All Science" creators gave The Simpsons and Futurama the same treatment.
Post-Axanar, CBS unveils first official fan filmmaking initiative in Trek history
Star Trek Film Academy grants fan filmmakers access to training, New Voyages facilities.
FTC must scrutinize Hotspot Shield over alleged traffic interception, group says
VPN service "can intercept and redirect HTTP requests to partner websites."
China built the world’s largest telescope, but has no one to run it
"Most astronomers in the United States do not like to work abroad."
Google-born startup thinks it’s time for a ground-source heat pump renaissance
Heating and cooling are holdouts in decarbonization and ripe for revolution.
So may I introduce to you John Lennon’s “Psychedelic Rolls”
“Climb in the back with your head in the clouds, and you’re gone.”
We know Vikings as infamous raiders—was that merely a response to climate change?
Changing temps may have impacted the ability to farm, leading to new economic strategies.
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