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The Wall Street Journal reports Bixby is "weeks away" from learning English.

Microsoft’s messaging app follows in footsteps of Instagram and Facebook Messenger.

Chief Financial Officer Gautam Gupta is also leaving the company.

In mice, it induces fat cells to burn more energy instead of storing it.

Fun to drive, carries plenty of cargo, but let down by a punishing low-speed ride.

But you'll probably have to wait until late 2017 to get your hands on it.

Free broadcasts now live where you watch the rest of your streamed content.

Customer account-only support page warns of "ability to decrypt encrypted data."

The experience proved empowering for my inner geek.

Microsoft changed how it did business to address the cloud; it didn’t for hardware.

Meanwhile, a new report suggests Mylan overcharged taxpayers by $1.27 billion.

Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, will serve life in prison.

Booz Allen Hamilton engineer posted geospatial intelligence to Amazon S3 bucket.

The aircraft has a 385-foot wingspan and is powered by six Pratt & Whitney engines.

Follows investigations on whether the oil company misled investors on climate change.

Democrats say net neutrality proceeding's integrity threatened by DDoS.

A stylish remake that could benefit from a whole lot more substance.

Cash back for parents whose kids ran amok buying "digital goods" in Amazon games.

Visually stunning but wholly underwhelming, Tokyo 42 fails to exploit its inventive premise.

Berlin court says abiding by family's wishes would set dangerous privacy precedent.

Incredible hack perpetually alters game through nothing but controller input.

Chemical changes give drug three killing methods plus a way to daze evolution.

The most anticipated Apple Music original show is finally coming out.

Only two spacecraft, besides the space shuttle, have flown into orbit more than once.

SDR-to-HDR converter conjures up more color, contrast out of images.

Q&A: We talk details with Android execs Dave Burke and Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson.

Not just for smartphones, Qualcomm wants its latest processor to be a PC platform.

A 4K sensor (limited to 1080p recording) allows for a digital zoom and enhance feature.

Since the 17th century, restricting resale has been “against Trade and Traffique.”

It’s a testament to falling prices, incentives but also reflects conservative estimates.

A star that vanished with a whimper in 2015 hints at a theoretical stellar death.

Old Norse expert Jackson Crawford joins us to talk about Vikings and sacrifice.

Mysterious group with cache of NSA exploits promises new release to those who pay.

Engineer is accused of grabbing 14,000 files before founding his own startup.

Also, Peter Jackson totally made a working Warthog, and a Bungie staffer crashed it.

Essential slices out a chunk of screen to make room for the front camera.

"Discrimination is wrong and it has no place in Texas or anywhere in our country."

When employees and media started raising concerns, the board did nothing.

Max-Q is kind of like Intel's Ultrabooks, but for gaming. No word on price, battery life.

Dell’s Inspiron gaming laptop now has a desktop counterpart.

Next generation chips will also pack 4 cores and 8 threads into a 15W power envelope.

The new X299 platform replaces X99, and scales both lower and higher.

Ars staffers fondly recall great Internet groups they've joined.

Ars' Sean Gallagher remembers his singular contribution to drone warfare's development.

This week, a judge considers possible jail for alleged extortionists who pled the Fifth.

Simple puzzles, end-game bummers can't tank this masterful interactive story.

Cloud didn't make the scientific method irrelevant in '08—AI won't do it in '17, either.

Tests will determine whether inflatables play a role in deep space exploration.

The Unnatural World’s look at human planet management is messy, but so are we.

When the Ottomans laid siege to Rhodes, this smart inventor held them off for months.