In 8 US states, Apple will begin storing driver’s licenses on the iPhone

The new feature will first be supported by the TSA in participating states. | Continue reading


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Too much of a good thing: Mourning the slow death of the retail game store

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Apple will change photo-scanning plan but won’t drop it completely

Apple issues vague statement promising "improvements" but still plans to scan photos. | Continue reading


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GoDaddy boots Texas abortion “whistleblower” site for violating privacy rule

GoDaddy gave website "24 hours to move to a different provider." | Continue reading


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Reports of Pixel 3s bricking with “EDL” message are growing

Users say Pixel 3s are unable to boot into Android or do anything useful at all. | Continue reading


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Cosmic indigestion: Swallowing a neutron star can cause a star to explode

Researchers argue that new observations are best explained by a theorized merger. | Continue reading


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A brief overview of IBM’s new 7 nm Telum mainframe CPU

A typical Telum-powered mainframe offers 256 cores at a base clock of 5+GHz. | Continue reading


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FAA grounds Virgin Galactic’s spaceship after flight deviation

"The most misleading statement today was Virgin Galactic's." | Continue reading


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Apple’s AR headset will leave a lot of the hard work to the iPhone

A reliance on external processing won't surprise anyone who's been following AR. | Continue reading


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Anger, frustration at FDA over Biden’s booster plan; two top regulators resign

"Huge loss" at FDA amid concerns of political pressure over vaccine decisions. | Continue reading


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A reliance on external processing won't surprise anyone who's been following AR. | Continue reading


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Samsung builds the world’s highest-resolution phone camera sensor: 200 MP

Samsung is binning up to 16 pixels now, so you can still take low-light photos. | Continue reading


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Apple will let video and music apps–but not games–link to other payment options

Reader apps—books, music, video, etc.—will be allowed "in-app link to their website." | Continue reading


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Billionaire Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settlement

Several states already plan to appeal what the judge himself called "a bitter result." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settlement

Several states already plan to appeal what the judge himself called "a bitter result." | Continue reading


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Locast’s free TV service shuts down after losing copyright ruling

Locast can't use revenue from users to expand into new markets, judge rules. | Continue reading


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China may use an existing rocket to speed up plans for a human Moon mission

China may seek to leapfrog NASA in its return to the Moon. | Continue reading


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Spaceship carrying Richard Branson flew off course

Also, an explanation of why Mark "Forger" Stucky left Virgin Galactic. | Continue reading


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Western Digital introduces new non-SMR 20TB HDDs with onboard NAND

These aren't "hybrids"—their NAND components aren't used for user data. | Continue reading


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Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says

SpaceX: Amazon should fix Kuiper satellite plan instead of trying to delay Starlink. | Continue reading


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Tesla must tell NHTSA how Autopilot sees emergency vehicles

The federal regulator is investigating 12 Autopilot crashes into first responders. | Continue reading


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Google Pixel 5a review: “Which Android phone should I buy?” This one

With a bigger battery, water resistance, and great updates, you can't go wrong. | Continue reading


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Blue Origin hires advisory firm linked to messy Jedi contract process

Pallas Advisors was co-founded by two former advisors to Jim Mattis. | Continue reading


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South Korea law forces Google and Apple to open up app store payments

App store owners won't be able to lock developers into their 30 percent fees. | Continue reading


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RNA vaccines seem to produce different antibody levels

Result raises questions about correlation between protection and antibody levels. | Continue reading


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New ruling reverts Clean Water Act protections to 1980s vintage

Current policy is arbitrary and capricious; new policy isn't ready yet. | Continue reading


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GM throws LG under the bus as Chevy Bolt production pauses amid recall

No end in sight for recall as both companies race to find the problem. | Continue reading


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Reddit’s teach-the-controversy stance on Covid vaccines sparks wider protest

PokemonGo, Futurology among big subreddits going private until Reddit takes action. | Continue reading


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Far Cry 6 hands-on preview: Enough issues to make us say, “Ay, Dios mío”

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NASA’s big rocket misses another deadline, now won’t fly until 2022

"The agency continues to monitor the rise of COVID cases in the Kennedy area." | Continue reading


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Electrification isn’t just for big school buses

The Type A buses will have 127 kWh battery packs and vehicle-to-grid capability. | Continue reading


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Judge’s order requiring hospital to give Covid patient ivermectin

“If I were these doctors, I simply wouldn’t do it.” | Continue reading


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We came, we saw, we used a lot of computing time

Turns out it's really hard to make a machine-learning model to evaluate headlines. | Continue reading


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Judge strips unvaccinated mother her of visitation rights

Father did not raise the issue but supports judge's ruling. | Continue reading


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China bans online gaming for minors except from 8 pm-9 pm Friday to Sunday

Online gaming companies barred from serving under-18s nearly every hour of the week. | Continue reading


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At least one species of primate underperforms when the heat is on

After researchers presented a huge reward, monkeys did less well in a skill test. | Continue reading


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Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, Awk, and grep

"Do people really write these long, convoluted commands?" In a word: yes. | Continue reading


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Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using Awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

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The modern challenge of gaming without a strong Internet connection

Massive patch downloads, online-focused game designs hinder millions of players. | Continue reading


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Game makers are catering to disabled players

Hardware and software solutions open gaming to a wider audience than ever. | Continue reading


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“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure

30% of Cosmos DB customers were notified—more are likely impacted. | Continue reading


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A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”

Undersea cables would be hit especially hard by a coronal mass ejection. | Continue reading


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Why do bats have such bizarrely long lifespans?

Adjusting for their size, most of the longest lived mammals are bats. | Continue reading


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The once-doomed MS Paint gets its first redesign in over a decade

Windows 10's version of Paint has been mostly unchanged since 2009. | Continue reading


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Myst remake impressions: Turning a new page on a classic–with issues at launch

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Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs

The Phoenix controller in Samsung's own product images isn't present on newer drives. | Continue reading


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Amazon and SpaceX fight over Starlink plan for 30k more satellites

Amazon: Starlink's plan to have two plans should be dismissed. | Continue reading


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Engineering a second genetic code in parallel with the normal one

As if an Android phone could all of a sudden run iOS at the same time.  | Continue reading


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