2020 looks like the year US renewables first out-produce coal

Latest projection of US emissions drop grows larger as coal and oil use sink. | Continue reading


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Man shoots down drone, gets hit with felony charges in Minnesota

The drone's owner was taking aerial images of a meat-processing facility. | Continue reading


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Humans are complicated–do we need behavioral science to get through this?

Some scientists think social science isn’t ready for the COVID-19 crisis. | Continue reading


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11M tests in 10 days: Wuhan lines up after Covid-19 cluster

There was only six cases, but China wants to nix the risk of a second wave. | Continue reading


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Nvidia ditches Intel, cozies up to AMD with its new DGX A100

Nvidia's first Ampere hardware is headed for the data center, not the game room. | Continue reading


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From iOS to SQL: The world’s most incorrectly pronounced tech terms

We're going to set the record straight on some age-old debates. | Continue reading


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Chrome will soon block resource-draining ads. Here’s how to turn it on now

Fed up with cryptojacking ads? Google developers have you covered. | Continue reading


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Could lab-evolved algae help save some corals from bleaching?

Idea shows some potential, but it’s no substitute for halting global warming. | Continue reading


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The Covid-19 misinformation crisis is just beginning, but there is hope

Scientists “map” how distrust in health expertise spreads through social networks. | Continue reading


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Senate passes spying bill without search and browsing history protections

An amendment protecting search and browsing histories failed in a 59-37 vote. | Continue reading


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Wireless mice you can buy

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Researchers say those recovered from SARS-CoV-2 can be a societal shield

The idea is to find those who have developed immunity and put them in essential jobs. | Continue reading


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Online voting has worked so far, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe

Proponents of mobile and internet voting point to its uneventful track record. | Continue reading


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Google Pixel’s camera lead quits after the failure of the Pixel 4

Internal strife at Google causes two major Pixel executives to quit. | Continue reading


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When AI takes on Eurovision: Can a computer write a hit song?

One Reddit-trained AI's lyrics? "Kill the government, kill the system." Whoops. | Continue reading


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Uber’s attempt to buy Grubhub comes under fire

Lawmakers and city officials do not see benefits of meal delivery consolidation. | Continue reading


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Covid-19 resurges in reopened countries; Wuhan sees first cluster in a month

China ordered all Wuhan residents get tested for COVID-19—that’s ~11 million people. | Continue reading


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Google Play Music dies this year, YT Music library imports begin today

Google Play Music users finally get a transition path to YouTube Music. | Continue reading


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Large chunks of a Chinese rocket missed New York City by about 15 minutes

China's Long March 5B rocket launched without a second stage. | Continue reading


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Apache 101: 0-WordPress in 15 minutes

Apache gets an undeserved bad rep from outdated guides—learn to set it up right. | Continue reading


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Republican Congress members upset banks dropping support for fossil fuels

A letter to the president ignores the fact that wind and solar employ people, too. | Continue reading


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Musk dares county officials to arrest him as he reopens Fremont factory

Tesla sued Alameda County in federal court on Saturday over the shutdown order. | Continue reading


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Microsoft reveals plans for new Web-based Outlook features

Predictive text is an iconic Gmail feature—but it's not all Microsoft has planned. | Continue reading


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Can gender-bending Israeli superprawns help feed the world?

They aren’t kosher, but they may be part of a greener, more sustainable food chain. | Continue reading


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Can gender-bending Israeli superprawns help feed the world?

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Sniff Petrol’s wonderfully interesting book of boring car facts

A Medium-Sized Book of Boring Car Trivia is inaccurately named. | Continue reading


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China’s new spacecraft–which resembles a Crew Dragon–just landed

China now has a capsule potentially capable of returning from the Moon. | Continue reading


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Caddis fly larvae are now building shelters out of microplastics

Caddis fly larvae typically construct protective cases out of sand grains and silk. | Continue reading


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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs scraps its ambitious Toronto project

Residents rebelled over plans to collect and use their data, among other things. | Continue reading


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Researchers engineer photosynthetic bacteria to produce hydrogen

A solar-driven hydrogen-producing machine that makes more copies of itself. | Continue reading


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Streamliners are the world’s most aerodynamic cars

Inspired by VW's ARVW concept, we look at the cars with tiny drag coefficients. | Continue reading


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ZFS 101–Understanding ZFS storage and performance

Learn to get the most out of your ZFS filesystem in our new series on storage fundamentals. | Continue reading


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Volvo plans cars with Lidar and “eyes off” highway driving by 2022

High-end lidar once cost $75,000. Luminar says its lidar costs less than $1,000. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

Bored highschoolers at home? Have them design a race car for the Moon

The plan is to take two 5kg robot race cars onboard the Nova-C lander in 2021. | Continue reading


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Astronomers have discovered closest black hole yet in trinary star system

Just 1,000 light years from Earth, its two companion stars are visible to the naked eye. | Continue reading


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FCC approves 5G network despite military saying it will harm GPS [Updated]

Pai says power limits and guard band will prevent interference with GPS. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

CDC guide to reopening was trashed by the Trump admin. It just leaked

Trump admin allegedly told CDC its reopening guide would "never see the light of day." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

A mistake at Facebook broke Spotify, Venmo, TikTok, and other iPhone apps

It's not the first time Facebook has wreaked havoc on iOS, either. | Continue reading


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Video shows Hayabusa2 pogo-bouncing off asteroid

A new paper analyzes what we know about the sample the probe grabbed last year. | Continue reading


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Union rep apparently threatens coronavirus infections to stop clean energy rule

"There will be no social distancing in place," union rep wrote to city leaders. | Continue reading


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Ars Technica on the massive effort to reverse-engineer N64 source code

It's about much more than just enabling PC ports. | Continue reading


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Google delays Android 11 Beta, announces I/O replacement event for June 3

Google I/O isn’t happening this year, but we’ll get all the normal info next month. | Continue reading


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Hacker buys old Tesla parts on eBay, finds them full of user data

Data can be retrieved even after owners perform a factory reset, researcher says. | Continue reading


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Prince of Persia concept video appears–and confirms why series has been dormant

PoP: Redemption video has hid in plain sight since 2012, elicits former devs' response. | Continue reading


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FDA: Makers of coronavirus antibody tests must now show tests work

Regulatory “flexibility” was never meant to allow fraud, agency says. | Continue reading


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Whistleblower complaint: How denial, cronyism steered Trump pandemic response

Ex-official says warnings about virus severity and supply shortages were ignored. | Continue reading


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Jet propulsion by microwave air plasma in the atmosphere

Air-burning plasma thruster may be competitive with jet engines. | Continue reading


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NASA planning to launch an integrated Lunar Gateway in 2023

NASA has already assessed the viability of the Falcon Heavy for the task. | Continue reading


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