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30 days jail for operator of drone that knocked woman unconscious
Pilot’s attorney says punishment “too severe.” Authorities expect more accidents.
The Stars Are Legion is a space-war story unlike anything you’ve read
New novel combines biotech megastructures with intense military action.
Uber’s self-driving cars ran through 6 stoplights in California, NY Times says
Documents cast doubt on Uber’s claims that a red light video was due to “human error.”
SpaceX plans to send two people around the Moon in late 2018 [Updated]
Individuals would fly a week-long mission in a “long loop” around the Moon and back.
New additive allows two most common plastics to be recycled together
A linker molecule brings together two otherwise unrelated plastics.
Google reports “high-severity” bug in Edge/IE, no patch available
String of unpatched security flaws comes after February Patch Tuesday was canceled.
Dealmaster: Snag Dell, Asus, and Lenovo laptops for less than $550 each
Plus deals on 4K TVs, smart home devices, tower desktops, and more.
Windows 10 Creators Update can block Win32 apps if they’re not from the Store
It appears to be an almost exact clone of macOS's Gatekeeper feature.
Mobile World Congress, day one: Many smartphones, some PCs, a couple curveballs
Your one-stop shop for all our impressions of everything we've handled at MWC.
New Lenovo Yoga laptops get 4K displays, Nvidia GTX 1050 GPUs, and more
13-inch Yoga 720 aims for portability, and the 15-inch model adds power.
Odd lawsuit fails to ding FedEx for allowing copies of CC-licensed material
Judge dismisses case that could have upended Creative Commons copyright model.
Nintendo Switch will support “portable-only” games
Restriction in Japanese launch title due to touchscreen. Will more follow?
AT&T lowers unlimited data price to $90, adds 10GB of tethering
AT&T also creates a cheaper "unlimited" plan that's throttled to 3Mbps.
Samsung updates Gear VR with new accessory: a handheld controller
With help from Oculus, Samsung makes its VR headset controls more accessible.
Formula 1 2017: The rest of the grid shows up
Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull, Toro Rosso, and Haas F1 have now shown us their cars.
Huawei P10 hands-on: Basically an iPhone 7 clone, which is good and bad
Typical Huawei: Excellent build quality, unoriginal design, terrible distribution.
Nokia 6 hands-on: A metal phone with stock Android?! Someone is listening!
HMD gets it. The company promises "pure Google," "secure, and up-to-date" devices.
Superbug infections rising rapidly and spreading silently in kids
Overall incidence still low, but researchers fear steep rise and community spread.
Moto G5 Plus hands-on: Solid camera, stock Android, sweet price—sign me up
Moto G5 Plus continues the trend of selling last year's tech at under half the price.
Moto G5 hands-on: A solid, metal-ish budget phone with removable battery
Moto G5 gets a fingerprint reader, metal back, and the same svelte £170 price.
Xperia XZ Premium hands-on: Sony powerhouse has a Snapdragon 835, 4K LCD
All the pixels, top-of-the-line SoC, and camera that can shoot almost 1000 FPS.
New CPUs and accessories define HP’s updated repairable Surface clone
Interesting riff on the Surface idea takes a couple steps back from the Elite x2.
Nokia 3310 hands-on: It’s hard not to like this modern take on the feature phone
It's tiny, durable, has great battery life, and it's $52—but will anyone buy one?
Router assimilated into the Borg, sends 3TB in 24 hours
Apparently, following instructions is important when installing firmware.
Moto G5 and G5 Plus: Metal finish, larger cameras boost these budget Androids
Now two different screen options, but no radical upgrades for these budget wonders.
Samsung tackles tablets and two-in-ones with new Tab S3 and Galaxy Book
Samsung is the latest OEM to hop on the convertible bandwagon.
Huawei Watch 2 hands-on—This feels like a last-gen smartwatch
With a small, ugly screen and no digital crown, the Huawei Watch 2 feels old.
Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How food and culture made the human mind
Evolutionary biologist looks at how humans became distinct from our closest kin.
Forget DMCA takedowns—RIAA wants ISPs to filter for pirated content
Demand comes as lawmakers are set to review US copyright laws.
In southeastern Colorado, robots carefully disarm WWII-era chemical weapons
Ars tours the training facility the military is using to teach humans how to help robots help us.
Moov HR review: Everyone should wear heart rate monitors on their heads
If you like HRM chest straps, you may like Moov’s pulse-tracking head gear.
LG G6 hands-on: A beautiful design with a disappointing processor
It’s pretty, but the glass back and old processor give us pause.
Google Assistant comes to every Android phone, 6.0 and up
The Assistant opens up to about 30 percent of Android users.
BlackBerry KeyOne hands-on—BlackBerry wants $549 for mid-range device
If this is how BlackBerry wants to do hardware, we really won’t miss them.
Same-sex marriage linked to decline in teen suicides
States that legalized gay marriage early created a natural experiment.
New malaria vaccine is fully effective in very small clinical trial
We may finally be getting somewhere in our fight against the disease.
Alienware 13 R3: Powerful and pretty, if you don’t mind junk in the trunk
Latest GTX 1060 laptop is more portable than its big ol’ butt might suggest.
A fasting-diet may trigger regeneration of a diabetic pancreas
But don’t try this at home—the results are mainly in mice and need verifying.
Theoretical battle: dark energy vs. modified gravity
LIGO could help tell us whether gravitational waves move at the speed of light.
Woman: After I rebuffed my Uber driver’s advances, he tried to rape me
“Uber has placed profits over safety by deliberately lowering the bar for drivers.”
Board game review: New Angeles is the capitalist dystopia we need
A brutally cutthroat modern masterpiece of board game design.
Get Out is the rare movie that perfectly blends horror and satire
Terrific, smart twist makes this movie even more enjoyable.
As Windows 10 Creators Update nears completion, new build focuses on fixes
Lots is fixed, but some strange glitches persist.
ZeniMax files injunction to stop Oculus from selling VR headsets [Updated]
But legal expert says an injunction is an uphill climb following civil verdict.
Largest grid-tied lithium ion battery system deployed today in San Diego
CA Public Utilities Commissioner: "We are far in advance of where we expected to be."
FCC to halt rule that protects your private data from security breaches
FCC chair plans to halt security rule and set up vote to kill privacy regime.
Watershed SHA1 collision just broke the WebKit repository, others may follow
"Please exercise care" with colliding PDFs, researchers advise software developers.
ISIS builds quadcopter “bomber” with DJI drone and badminton supplies
Downed drone outside Mosul shows off-the-shelf tech creatively used to kill.
NASA measuring risks and “significant” cost of crew on maiden SLS launch
A feasibility study of putting two astronauts on EM-1 should be complete in a month.
Eczema patients treated by drug-producing microbes found on their own skin
Certain friendly bacteria are rare on patients but can still kill Staph aureus.
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