Researchers perform magic tricks for birds, who are not amused

Can an animal without hands recognize when humans are using sleight-of-hand tricks? | Continue reading


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Not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack

Code execution flaw in vCenter is exploited to install web shell on unpatched machines. | Continue reading


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The world saw a shark-pocalypse 19M years ago, and we don’t know why

Researchers find evidence of a huge shark die-off but aren't sure what happened. | Continue reading


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What to expect from WWDC 2021: iOS 15, M2, and more

Software is usually the focus, but we'll probably see a new Mac chip. | Continue reading


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Researchers rewire the genetics of E. coli, make it virus-proof

A revised genetic code is a pathway for bacteria to do things that seem unnatural. | Continue reading


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AMD triples Zen 3 CPU cache using 3D stacking technology

Not a pipe dream—CEO Lisa Su demonstrated a working 3D-stacked 5900X prototype. | Continue reading


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WWDC 2021: What to expect from Apple’s next keynote

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Samsung will shut down the v1 SmartThings hub this month

Samsung is killing the OG hub, along with most of the original appeal of SmartThings. | Continue reading


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Genetic tricks of the longest-lived animals

By studying long-living animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity. | Continue reading


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Stack Overflow sold to tech investor Prosus for $1.8B

"Don't expect to see major changes or awkward synergies," said site co-founder. | Continue reading


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Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is a powerhouse but good luck finding it at $1,199 MSRP

$1,199 MSRP is arguably worth it—in a universe where MSRP means anything, at least. | Continue reading


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Virgin Galactic announces another human-tended science flight

"We're going to finish our test flight program this year." | Continue reading


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Physicists unlock multispectral secrets of earliest color photographs

French physicist Gabriel Lippmann created the first color photographs in 1891. | Continue reading


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Huawei officially replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android

Thanks to nearly identical code bases, Huawei can update "Android" to "HarmonyOS." | Continue reading


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Venus is so nice, NASA is going there twice

"The Venus community is absolutely elated." | Continue reading


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Huawei officially replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android

Thanks to nearly identical code bases, Huawei can update "Android" to "HarmonyOS." | Continue reading


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SEC struggling to rein in Elon Musk’s tweets, letters reveal

Regulator concerned that Tesla's lawyers were not reviewing CEO's tweets. | Continue reading


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ROM site owner made $30k a year–now owes Nintendo $2.1M

The DMCA's "safe harbor" isn't so safe when you upload the files. | Continue reading


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Xiaomi’s 200 W phone charger goes from 0-100% in 8 minutes

Charge a phone as quickly as gassing up a car. | Continue reading


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What the physics of skipping stones can tell us about aircraft water landings

A combination of gyro effect and Magnus effect influences the deflection of trajectory | Continue reading


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Shortages loom as ransomware hamstrings the world’s biggest meat producer

Add meat to the list of critical supply chains disrupted by the malware scourge. | Continue reading


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Big Tech sues Florida, saying social media law violates First Amendment

Facebook/Twitter lobby sues over law that protects politicians from "censorship." | Continue reading


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Webb telescope launch date slips again

We "don't have a lot of reserve" left. | Continue reading


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The US military is starting to get interested in Starship

"The Air Force seeks to leverage the current multi-billion dollar commercial investment." | Continue reading


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The SolarWinds hackers aren’t back–they never went away

A new phishing campaign is less an escalation than a regression to the mean. | Continue reading


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Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense

From the archives: Ars talks to the filmmakers who collaborated with an AI for Sunspring. | Continue reading


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Heads up The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes

Giraffes: Scary high blood pressure, yet few of the issues plaguing people with hypertension. | Continue reading


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Deepfake maps could mess with your sense of the world

Researchers applied AI techniques to make portions of Seattle look more like Beijing | Continue reading


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The never-ending conundrums of classical physics

Even today, scientists still try to solve sprinkler brain teasers from the 19th century. | Continue reading


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Rewilding: Four tips to let nature thrive

Comprehensive international study on rewilding has practical tips to re-establish nature. | Continue reading


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Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls

FragAttacks let hackers inject malicious code or commands into encrypted Wi-Fi traffic. | Continue reading


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Redesigned AirPods are coming soon, report claims

AirPods would have shorter stems, and AirPods Pro might have no stems at all. | Continue reading


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Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

Amazon's experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs. | Continue reading


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Stardew Valley: The Board Game–a loving production but a mixed review

The beloved video game is relaxing. The board game? Not as much. | Continue reading


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CDC loosened mask guidance to encourage vaccination–it failed spectacularly

FDA approval and paid time off would make people more likely to get a shot, poll finds. | Continue reading


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Covert channel in Apple’s M1 is mostly harmless, but it sure is interesting

Technically, it's a vulnerability, but there's not much an attacker can do with it. | Continue reading


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NASA budget goes all-in on science, stays the course on Moon lander

"The goal is 2024, but I think we have to be brutally realistic." | Continue reading


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Game Builder Garage hides powerful programming tools behind a cute interface

Preview: Kids can learn to make Switch games without a single line of code. | Continue reading


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Blade Runner Game Director Louis Castle: Extended Interview

Ars Technica is proud to present our extended interview with Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle - the executive producer, art director, and technical director behind the influential 90’s point and click PC adaptation of Blade Runner. Learn more about the challenges Louis an … | Continue reading


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Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and the soft, squishy science of language

A deep dive into xenolinguistics, pragmatics, the cooperative principle, and Noam Chomsky! | Continue reading


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Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and the soft, squishy science of language

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SolarWinds hackers are back with a new mass campaign, Microsoft says

Kremlin-backed group uses hacked account to impersonate US aid agency. | Continue reading


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Ohio lawmakers want to abolish vaccine requirements – all vaccine requirements

Someone would only have to verbally decline vaccination and cite "reasons of conscience." | Continue reading


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Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition

Spectrum costs $30 for 400Mbps on one street, $50 for half the speed on another. | Continue reading


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Downloading Ubuntu via BitTorrent gets Comcast customer a DMCA warning

Put down your pitchforks—it looks like the DMCA warning was bogus. | Continue reading


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Evolving underwater: Oceans board game review

Fear the Cambrian explosion! | Continue reading


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EU suspects Facebook of abusing power with Marketplace, report says

Company allegedly pushed Marketplace to undermine rival classified ad sites. | Continue reading


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No, it doesn’t just crash Safari. Apple has yet to fix exploitable flaw

WebKit bug that was fixed upstream has yet to find its way into Apple products. | Continue reading


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