Battery prices have fallen 88 percent over the last decade

Cheaper batteries are making it easier to fight climate change. | Continue reading


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Microsoft president calls SolarWinds hack an “act of recklessness“

Of 18,000 backdoored servers, hackers followed up on only a few dozen. | Continue reading


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Microsoft president calls SolarWinds hack an “act of recklessness“

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Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January

Google promised three years of updates at launch but stopped updates after one year. | Continue reading


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As the world quieted down in 2020, Raspberry Shakes listened

Humble Raspberry Pis helped scientists track the seismic noise people stopped making in 2020. | Continue reading


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Amazon’s answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase

Amazon offers peek into development of antenna for Project Kuiper user terminal. | Continue reading


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“Mobile emulator farms” used to steal millions from US and EU banks

Scale of operation is unlike anything researchers had seen before. | Continue reading


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As the world quieted down in 2020, Raspberry Shakes listened

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Qualcomm promises three years of Android updates for its entire SoC lineup

The new plan is three years of major OS updates and four years of security updates. | Continue reading


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FDA releases data on Moderna’s Covid vaccine: It looks good

Data drop comes ahead of a potential Emergency Use Authorization on Thursday. | Continue reading


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Alan Tudyk plays a crime-solving alien in disguise in Resident Alien

Syfy series is adapted from the Dark Horse comics by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse. | Continue reading


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The Orion spacecraft is now 15 years old and has flown into space just once

It was supposed to be the beginning of the Mars era. | Continue reading


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SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi factor authentication

Hackers who hit SolarWinds compromised a think tank three separate times. | Continue reading


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Ars Technica Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide 2020

We propose some last-minute tech gift ideas for the various people in your life. | Continue reading


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SpaceX won “rural” FCC funding in surprising places, like major airports

Starlink and other ISPs took advantage of broken FCC system, researcher says. | Continue reading


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The Ars Technica ultimate holiday gift guide 2020

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Stroll down memory lane with this 1996 instructional video on How to Internet

Everything You Need to Know About... Introduction to the Internet is on the Internet Archive. | Continue reading


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Oracle joins Silicon Valley’s Texas exodus

Elon Musk revealed he had moved to Texas earlier this week. | Continue reading


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US diplomats’ brain injuries may be from covert microwave attack, experts say

Data from Russian experiments on pulsed RF energy offers best explanation. | Continue reading


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We have a winner in the world’s first quantum chess tournament

It's like playing in a multiverse "but the different boards are connected to each other” | Continue reading


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RIP Henri, le Chat Noir, angst-ridden feline YouTube star for the ages

Will Braden, aka the "thieving filmmaker," announced Henri's passing on Facebook. | Continue reading


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Copyright law is bricking your game console. Time to fix that

Op-ed: An exemption to the DMCA could make DIY console repairs possible—and legal. | Continue reading


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Zodiac Killer cipher is cracked after eluding sleuths for 51 years

Northern California serial murderer sent encoded messages that went uncracked until now. | Continue reading


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“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C

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Boston Dynamics sells to Hyundai Motor Group in $1.1B deal

Boston Dynamics gets access to Hyundai's serious manufacturing supply chain. | Continue reading


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The Christchurch shooter and YouTube’s radicalization trap

Researchers say YouTube's policies and algorithms are still too opaque. | Continue reading


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FDA's head on chopping block as Trump rages over vaccine authorization [Updated]

FDA has now authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine amid pressure. | Continue reading


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How the robber barons hijacked the victorian internet (2011)

Ars revisits those wild and crazy days when Jay Gould ruled the telegraph and … | Continue reading


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Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list

CentOS was the most famous "RHEL rebuild" by far—but there are others. | Continue reading


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Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020)

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Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020)

Famously, Apple's Quadra 700 once helped track dinosaurs. Is it stuck in amber nowadays? | Continue reading


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Disney+ drops Andor teaser, announces gazillion other Star Wars projects

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy introduced them all at Disney's Investor Day. | Continue reading


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CentOS Linux is dead–and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”

CentOS Stream, founded in 2019, is “a rolling preview of what's next in RHEL.” | Continue reading


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Covert microwave weapon “most plausible” cause of Cuba “health attacks”

Data from Russian experiments on pulsed RF energy offers best explanation. | Continue reading


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Physicists solve 150-year-old mystery of equation governing sandcastle physics

“This came as a big surprise. I expected a complete breakdown of conventional physics.” | Continue reading


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Florida posted the password to a key disaster system on its website

Not only does the whole state share one password, but it’s posted publicly. | Continue reading


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YouTube bans videos claiming Trump won

The electoral college is set to confirm Joe Biden’s victory next Monday. | Continue reading


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Ravn X–a fully autonomous, air-launched rocket for small satellites

“Our aircraft is a first stage because it actually contributes delta V.” | Continue reading


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“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C

Today, C may be a lingua franca among programmers. This is its (abridged) history. | Continue reading


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GE puts default password in radiology devices,leaves healthcare networks exposed

Fixing the critical vulnerability isn’t straightforward and comes with its own risks. | Continue reading


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Apple Fitness+ launches this coming Monday at $9.99 per month

The workout video subscription service is also available as part of Apple One. | Continue reading


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GOP clinches 2-2 deadlock for Biden FCC as Senate approves Trump nominee

Senate confirms "wholly unqualified" Republican to prevent Democratic majority. | Continue reading


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Cyberpunk 2077 is equal parts beautiful and messy

20 hours in, Night City is a majestic masterpiece with a lot of rough edges. | Continue reading


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Google to improve city GPS accuracy by using 3D building data

Android GPS will work better in cities thanks to Google Maps' 3D building data. | Continue reading


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Senate invites fringe, unscientific medical group to testify about Covid

The latest conservative flirtation with a group that’s both libertarian and deranged. | Continue reading


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SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states

Charter also wins big; FCC fund will bring service to 5.2M homes and businesses. | Continue reading


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The journey of the electronic plastic bottle

Researchers loaded containers with trackers and let them float away. | Continue reading


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Lidar startup goes public, makes founder a billionaire

Luminar used a special purpose acquisition company to avoid a traditional IPO. | Continue reading


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