Say hello to 802.11ax: Wi-Fi 6 device certification begins today

Wi-Fi 6 is officially here. | Continue reading


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What it was like to fly the baddest airplane the world has ever known

“The X-15 was the most demanding airplane I’ve ever flown." | Continue reading


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How do you leave a warning that lasts as long as nuclear waste?

Burying radioactive waste is seen as the safe way—how do we tell future generations? | Continue reading


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What happened in the impact crater the day it did in the dinos

Rock core allows researchers to create an incredible timeline. | Continue reading


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Nintendo gets UK ISPs to block Switch piracy sites

Court order focuses on sites providing Team Xecutor's commercial "SX OS" hack. | Continue reading


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XDA-developers’ first look at Google Camera 7, leaked from the Pixel 4

Vietnamese YouTubers extracted the Camera 7.0 APK from a pre-release Pixel4. | Continue reading


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Verizon plans 5G Home Internet in every city where it deploys mobile 5G

Verizon Wireless home Internet due for expansion, but 5G availability is sparse. | Continue reading


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Donkey Kong’s Apple II-Powered Atari 2600 Port

Garry Kitchen's unlikely story is told in this excerpt from the book Arcade Perfect. | Continue reading


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Laser scalpel for fabric of the Universe, enabled by electron trampoline

Simply changing a mirror may allow physicists to poke a hole in the universe. | Continue reading


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New clues show how Russia’s grid hackers aimed for physical destruction

2016 Russian cyberattack on Ukraine intended to cause far more damage than it did. | Continue reading


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Lavabit founder, under gag order, speaks out about shutdown decision

Levison built e-mail "by geeks, for geeks"—and then turned off 410,000 accounts. | Continue reading


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Volkswagen’s bold plan to create a new car operating system

Volkswagen Group is creating a new division just for car software. | Continue reading


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Congress wants Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon emails as probe heats up

Committee requests decades' worth of records relating to basically everything. | Continue reading


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Pen-testers nabbed, jailed in Iowa courthouse break-in attempt

Iowa court officials authorized "various means" to check county court's security. | Continue reading


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Björk made music’s first “VR pop album”

On VR's doubters: "It's a boring question. Can there be soul in technology? Yes!" | Continue reading


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Hackers are exploiting a platform-agnostic flaw to track mobile phone locations

Attacks work by sending commands directly to applications stored on SIM cards. | Continue reading


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Tesla touts raceway record with 3-motor powertrain prototype

Musk: three-motor powertrain will come to Model S, X, and Roadster next year. | Continue reading


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California passes bill that threatens Uber and Lyft’s business model

Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign the overhaul of California labor law. | Continue reading


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SpaceX says it will deploy satellite broadband across US faster than expected

SpaceX will reorganize orbits to cover more of the US in initial deployment. | Continue reading


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AT&T to lose 1.1M TV subscribers as DirecTV continues nosedive

AT&T forecasts subscriber loss as big shareholder says DirecTV buy was a mistake. | Continue reading


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Forwarding email is a crime, Jerry Falwell Jr. says after leaks to media

A legal expert told the AP Falwell's claims were "totally insane." | Continue reading


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Sega Genesis Mini Review

42 games, nicely molded controllers are the right call for $80, in spite of nitpicks. | Continue reading


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Preventing GPS spoofing is hard–but you can at least detect it

This GPS spoofing defense software looks promising, but it's short on detail. | Continue reading


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AMD improves real-world boost and idle on Ryzen 3000

The extra 25-50MHz boost speed probably means less than the lower idle, really. | Continue reading


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Archaeologists unearth mass graves from Mongol invasion of Russia

DNA says several people buried in a mass grave after the 1278 attack were related. | Continue reading


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Apple iPad 2019 hands-on: A 6th-generation iPad in a 2019 iPad Air’s body

An older CPU meets a (sort of) newer design, but it's still a notable improvement. | Continue reading


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Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world

If you skipped the last release, Debian 10 (Buster) should encourage an update into 2019. | Continue reading


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Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that’s a good

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The fall of coal, and its pollution-linked deaths, is boosting the economy

Farming now produces more particulate pollution than electricity generation. | Continue reading


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iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max: Hands-On with Apple’s New Phones

Apple's new iPhones bring greatly improved cameras and new colors, among other things. | Continue reading


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Apple Watch series 5 hands-on: Software is king

New materials and sensors headline this annual update. And we have photos. | Continue reading


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“Everything as a service” is coming–but we’re not there quite yet

Getting there—if it's really what we want—means solving a few still-unsolved problems. | Continue reading


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Weakness in Intel chips lets researchers steal encrypted SSH keystrokes

DDIO makes servers faster. It can also allow rogue servers to covertly steal data. | Continue reading


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Apple introduces the new $699 iPhone 11–and it’s all about the cameras

The follow-up to the iPhone XR adds a new dual-camera system. | Continue reading


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iPhone 11 Pro is official with 3 cameras and Super Retina XDR display

$999 5.8-inch Pro and $1,099 6.5-inch Pro Max include super-bright OLED panels. | Continue reading


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Some Chromebooks mistakenly declared themselves end-of-life

Users on the Canary or Dev builds of ChromeOS got a nasty shock last week. | Continue reading


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Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules

Employer analytics firm can keep scraping public LinkedIn profiles, court says. | Continue reading


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The secret lives of Google raters (2017)

They spent years testing Google's algorithms—then everything changed. | Continue reading


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Verizon’s 5G network isn’t good enough to cover an entire NFL stadium

In-stadium 5G only reaches some seating sections and some concourses and gates. | Continue reading


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Tesla owner attempts Autopilot defense during DUI stop (2018)

Driving drunk is still illegal, even with a driver-assistance system active. | Continue reading


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Algorithms should have made courts more fair. What went wrong?

Kentucky Judges must consult algorithms for cash bail decisions; now more whites get bail. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk throws down with Porsche, sends a Model S to the Nürburgring

Can the "Raven" Model S beat a Taycan Turbo S at the Green Hell? | Continue reading


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Ars goes back to school: The video games that threatened our college GPA

Lessons learned: A hand-coded D&D Familiar, dorm LAN parties, everything in between. | Continue reading


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Hydride predicted to be superconductive at room temperature

Room temperature superconductive hydride predicted… at 250GPa. | Continue reading


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Apple takes flak for disputing iOS security bombshell dropped by Google

Apple statement alienates the security community when the company needs it most. | Continue reading


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Apple takes flak for disputing iOS security bombshell dropped by Google

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Lenovo Thinkbook 13s review: ThinkPad influences at a great price

Almost anyone can appreciate this solid Windows laptop that starts at under $750. | Continue reading


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Exploit for wormable BlueKeep Windows bug released into the wild

The Metasploit module isn't as polished as the EternalBlue exploit. Still, it's powerful. | Continue reading


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