“This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law

But it's not clear whether the FCC preemption will actually change anything. | Continue reading


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T-Mobile says it can’t be sued by users because of forced-arbitration clause

T-Mobile fights suit that says it broke law by selling users' phone-location data. | Continue reading


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Humans may have reached Europe by 210k years ago

By 40,000 years later, Neanderthals had taken over the site. | Continue reading


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1,000mph car starts high-speed tests in October

The part jet, part rocket car will finally get to stretch its legs on a dry lake. | Continue reading


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Chinese air pollution dimmed sunlight enough to impact solar panels

Pollution from coal and biomass burning blocks 13% of solar electricity. | Continue reading


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Official StarCraft mod makes the game look like a Saturday morning cartoon

Hands-on with $10 update for StarCraft Remastered: It's clean, cute, and hilarious. | Continue reading


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Dropbox Transfer tests direct sharing of files up to 100GB

Send copies of files (even the big ones) with this new Dropbox feature. | Continue reading


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Close to 10%” of Autopilot software team reportedly departs after shakeup

In 2015, Musk declared self-driving "a much easier problem than people think." | Continue reading


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Trump’s Twitter blocks violate First Amendment rights, appeals court affirms

The best response to criticism is "more speech, not less," court rules. | Continue reading


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Buzz Aldrin is looking forward, not back–and he has a plan to bring NASA along

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Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4

"I expect this will be fixed in a future board revision," says co-creator. | Continue reading


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Buzz Aldrin is looking forward, not back – and he has a plan to bring NASA along

"There has to be a better way of doing things. And I think I’ve found it.” | Continue reading


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Antivaxxers turn to homeschooling to avoid protecting their kids’ health

One anti-vaccine parent planned to quit her part-time job to "become an educator." | Continue reading


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Russian spy sub crew prevented nuclear accident at cost of their lives

Submarine was on "combat training mission" with civilian expert aboard for equipment test. | Continue reading


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Amazon Kuiper program will Launch over 3k satellites for Internet

Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites. | Continue reading


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Amazon on the hook for third-party goods that cause injury, federal court says

Who can you call when the actual seller vanishes off the face of the Earth? | Continue reading


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The DMCA bell did not toll for a beloved musician–thus, I could grieve him

Mark Sandman was a prolific creator, performer; vault recordings, bootlegs live on. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 years ago

I updated my crusty old Pentium G-based server–the results are worth sharing

A Ryzen CPU and a Rosewill case got us big gains at about the same cost. | Continue reading


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Fixing the past: The art of collecting pinball machines

From the archives: Pinball is a dying art, but as it dies it has spawned a new art in its place. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 6 years ago

How much carbon does our lumber sequester?

It's not all that much, and keeping it sequestered depends on economic conditions. | Continue reading


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Archival footage, audio immerses viewers in Apollo: Missions to the Moon

Director Tom Jennings and engineer Poppy Northcutt reflect on seminal era in space flight | Continue reading


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Guidemaster: Fitness trackers to consider before buying a smartwatch

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Did this hoaxster fool Uber’s former CEO about his Wii Sports “high score”?

A better-late-than-never confession proves the lie of a 2400 skill rating. | Continue reading


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Volkswagen will share electric car platform with Ford, says Reuters

The alliance, first revealed in January, will now include passenger vehicles. | Continue reading


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Penetration testing takes on new meaning when cyber meets Harlequin

What happens when a romance writer takes on the cybers? Unintentional hilarity. | Continue reading


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New York Times falls for “obesity probiotic” hype

Like many probiotic studies, it’s small, inconclusive, and has financial conflicts. | Continue reading


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No, a “checklist error” did not almost derail the first moon landing

From the archives: The cause of Apollo 11’s landing alarms is a lot more complicated. | Continue reading


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Behold, the most (intentionally) poorly designed website ever created

The site from a design firm upends conventions to become hilariously unusable. | Continue reading


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30k followers makes you an Internet “celebrity,” says UK ad regulator

You don't have to have as many followers as David Beckham to be influential. | Continue reading


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Facetime Fakes Eye-Contact

Is this FaceTime feature a nifty improvement for video chats, or is it just creepy? | Continue reading


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The Internet broke today: Facebook, Verizon, and more see major outages

Verizon, Cloudflare, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter are all having problems. | Continue reading


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Alaskan permafrost warming experiment produces surprising results

New measurement method showed 5 percent of permafrost carbon is released each year. | Continue reading


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Android Q(&A): Android Engineers take us on a deep dive of Android Q

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Reality Check on NASA’s Artemis Moon Landing Program

"They are fighting tooth and nail to nix the Gateway." | Continue reading


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Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever

The recordings, and their transcripts, never expire automatically. | Continue reading


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Android Engineers take us on a deep dive of Android Q

Ars interviews Android Engineers Dave Burke, Iliyan Malchev, and Anwar Ghuloum. | Continue reading


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Retailers all but beg FTC to take action against Google, Amazon

Antitrust law needs to be updated for information era, group says. | Continue reading


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Neanderthals glued their tools together

The 55,000- to 40,000-year-old stone tools still carry traces of resin adhesive. | Continue reading


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Rapid results in on climate change and the European heat wave

Heat wave was several degrees Celsius hotter than an equivalent event in 1900. | Continue reading


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Microsoft is teasing Windows 1.0 and other 1980s software

Get MS-DOS Executive, Paint, and Reversi in...whatever this is. | Continue reading


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Mordhau developer denies it was planning a “toggle” for diversity

Denial comes after PC Gamer quotes game makers saying it was under consideration. | Continue reading


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Big Dairy is trying to get teens hooked on lattes to boost milk sales

Dairy groups hope young latte drinkers can help reverse decades of slumping milk sales. | Continue reading


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Frontier customer bought his own router–but has to pay $10 rental fee anyway

Customer-owned FiOS router works just fine, but Frontier refuses to waive fee. | Continue reading


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Tesla delivered a record number of cars in the second quarter

Tesla delivered 95,200 vehicles in the second quarter of 2019. | Continue reading


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879% drug price hike is one of 3,400 in 2019 so far; rate of hikes increasing

Despite public and political pressure, pharma keeps on ratcheting up prices. | Continue reading


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Black Adder might return for a fifth season (rumor)

"As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University." | Continue reading


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NASA completes successful test of Orion’s escape system

"By all accounts, it was magnificent." | Continue reading


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At long last, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series is being adapted for television

Streaming giant is investing heavily in what may be its most expensive production yet | Continue reading


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