Greenland ice cores track Roman lead pollution in year-by-year detail

Studying the ice cores may help reconstruct fluctuations in the ancient economy. | Continue reading


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Defying Republicans, Senate Democrats schedule vote to save net neutrality

Democrats force Senate to vote this week—FCC repeal would take effect on June 11. | Continue reading


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Here’s why people are eating an ingredient in face creams–and why they shouldn’t

With little evidence, some believe that the supplement will rejuvenate. | Continue reading


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Forget carbon fiber–we can now make carbon nanotube fibers

They hold up to more than 10 times the strain that Kevlar does. | Continue reading


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Surface Hub 2 coming in 2019, looks amazing

It's smaller but a whole lot slicker. | Continue reading


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Cryptocurrency has been great for GPU makers–that might change soon

The cryptocurrency boom helped GPU makers score another quarter of huge profits. | Continue reading


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A dozen Google employees quit over military drone project

Googler: "The strongest possible statement I could take against this was to leave." | Continue reading


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Hurricane season begins in two weeks, but hype season is in full swing

"Hurricane season may be even worse in 2018 after a harrowing 2017." What?!? | Continue reading


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A year ago, the NES Classic flew off the shelves–now it’s coming back

Nintendo expects stock "through the end of the year" after June 29 relaunch. | Continue reading


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Germany’s Typhoon problem: Only four fighters can be made combat ready

Video: Most of Germany's fighter jets (and tanks and ships and helicopters) are broken. | Continue reading


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GPU-equipped Ryzen Pros give AMD what it needs to conquer the corporate desktop

Integrated graphics mean that AMD's chips can now go head to head with Intel's. | Continue reading


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Plimsoll Gear, which sells T-shirts with icon, threatens trademark lawsuit

Mark dates back to 19th century, as a way to know if a ship is overloaded. | Continue reading


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A relatively easy to understand primer on elliptic curve cryptography

Everything you wanted to know about the next generation of public key crypto. | Continue reading


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Decade-old Efail flaws can leak plaintext of PGP- and S/MIME-encrypted emails

Researchers explain the attack behind their warning to disable email plugins for now. | Continue reading


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Lenovo hypes up an all-screen (no, really) flagship smartphone

Stunning Lenovo design has 95-percent screen-to-bezel ratio, but will they build it? | Continue reading


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Little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station

How two Cosmonauts battled extreme cold, darkness, and limited resources to save Salyut 7. | Continue reading


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The flaws can expose emails sent in the past and "pose an immediate threat." | Continue reading


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Yes, Europa really is sending plumes of water into space

Galileo's closest approach to Europa brought it within 206km of the moon's surface. | Continue reading


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Trump vows to reopen smartphone giant ZTE to save Chinese jobs

Trump vows to help shuttered Chinese phone giant ZTE "get back into business." | Continue reading


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How long can a neutron survive outside an atom?

Again, fundamental physics values shouldn't change based on how you measure them. | Continue reading


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Jails are replacing visits with video calls–inmates and families hate it

We tried one of the awful video services many jails offer instead of visitation. | Continue reading


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Two spaces after dot are better

After APA style change sets world afire, researchers justify double-space but plea for peace. | Continue reading


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Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted e-mails. Uninstall now

The flaws, can expose e-mails sent in the past and "pose an immediate threat." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted e-mails

The flaws, can expose e-mails sent in the past and "pose an immediate threat." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

How a “location API” allows cops to figure out where we all are in real-time

"Securus takes no steps to verify that uploaded documents in fact provide authorization…" | Continue reading


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Syfy has canceled the Expanse, but its producers want to find it a new home

Earthers, Martians, and Belters have to wait to see if it's picked up elsewhere. | Continue reading


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Here’s what’s going on with Hawaii’s erupting volcano

Curious why there's flaming hot rock in the middle of a subdivision? | Continue reading


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Stem cell clinics that blinded women used smallpox vaccine go to war with feds

As promised, FDA got DOJ to crackdown on shady, dangerous stem cell clinics | Continue reading


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Formula 1 finally launches its livestream – and it was a total mess

Plenty of buffering problems for the stream's debut event. | Continue reading


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Report: Bitcoin money laundering suspect spared from prison poison plot

"There are people who are extremely interested in him not coming to Russia." | Continue reading


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The Block 5 version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket goes for attempt #2

Musk: "Man, anyway, I'm stressed." | Continue reading


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AT&T says hiring Trump lawyer was “big mistake,” forces top lobbyist out

"Our reputation has been damaged," AT&T CEO tells employees in internal memo. | Continue reading


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Remediating Fukushima–“When everything goes to hell, you go back to basics”

It may take 40 years for the site to appear like "a normal reactor at the end of its life. | Continue reading


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Google works out a fascinating way for AI to isolate voices in a crowd

Google researchers try to replicate the “cocktail party effect” for computers. | Continue reading


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Klout is out–social media mojo-ranking service to shutter

You will no longer be able to throw your Klout score around… did anyone really do that? | Continue reading


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Valve will soon let you stream Steam games to phones and tablets

You can soon watch Steam-purchased movies and TV shows on your mobile device, too. | Continue reading


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Malicious Chrome extensions infect 100,000-plus users, again

Over two months, seven extensions stole credentials and installed currency miners. | Continue reading


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Video: How Blizzard Makes Overwatch Maps

Assistant Game Director Aaron Keller explains what went into making Rialto fun. | Continue reading


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Here are the Russian-made Facebook ads that tried to shake American politics

"Get a chance to have your say on Muslim immigration without politically censorship." | Continue reading


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Multiple studies show no improvement in distracted driving

Distracted driving is worst in the Northeast, best in the Midwest. | Continue reading


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Packets over LAN are all it takes to trigger serious Rowhammer bit flips

The bar for exploiting potentially serious DDR weakness keeps getting lower. | Continue reading


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Hackers find “official,” usable PSP emulator hidden in PS4’s PaRappa

Sony threw redrawn textures onto 2007 PSP version for last year's PS4 "remaster" | Continue reading


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Apple reportedly removing apps that share location data with third parties

Developers must remove violations before they can resubmit their apps for review. | Continue reading


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Net neutrality to die on June 11, as Ajit Pai blasts “special interests”

Rules against blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization to be eliminated. | Continue reading


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The Trump administration just forced smartphone maker ZTE to shut down

ZTE apparently couldn't continue without Qualcomm chips and Android software. | Continue reading


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Google’s Android TV dongle is real, but it won’t end up in stores

Dreams of a wall-mount compatible Android TV solution will have to wait. | Continue reading


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Supercomputers are driving a revolution in hurricane forecasting

Five-day forecasts are as good now as two-day forecasts were in 1998. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

NASA chief on Moon return: “This will not be Lucy and the football again”

Bridenstine did not mention the Space Launch System rocket or the Orion spacecraft. | Continue reading


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