Another exoplanet weather report: 8,500 km/hour winds
Tracking the movement of sodium vapor at 60 light years.
Top Post: Inside Facebook’s “innovation pop-up”—a giant blue temple of far-out tech
In-Depth Reports
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Inside Facebook’s “innovation pop-up”—a giant blue temple of far-out tech
It's only for employees (and press!), but we saw inside the company's London temp space.
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Oculus’ VR Arcade is a cold, lonely place—but it doesn’t have to be
Virtual reality is the perfect place to revive the gaming halls of yesteryear.
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Toyota Mirai review: A futuristic, super-smooth hydrogen fuel cell car
Toyota's first step towards sustainable mobility is expensive—but highly impressive too.
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New model explains how the Earth stole the Moon’s lighter elements
Most of the Moon condensed while some metals were still vaporized.
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Ars Cardboard: Codenames, the secret agent party game you’ve been seeking
Meet the new king of party games.
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Op-ed: (How) did they break Diffie-Hellman?
Relax—it's not true that researchers have broken the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol.
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The messy reality of science revealed by the long hunt for a missing planet
The Hunt for Vulcan review: A predicted planet eluded discovery until Einstein killed it.
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Post arguing for separation of church and state gets pulled by Facebook
Moderators for the site seem to either intervene too much or not enough.
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You probably shouldn’t drive a $1.6 million car around NYC, but we did
National Geographic, Uber, and a generous owner took us for a ride in a McLaren P1.
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Judge: Internet broadcaster FilmOn isn’t a cable system
Win in LA, lose in DC: High court may have to reconsider half-baked Aereo opinion.
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On-duty Secret Service officer thinks he’s sexting a teen, but it’s the cops
He sexted from break room before he had "to go relieve someone else to go on break."
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Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC
Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking.
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Wales Rally GB: 300hp, 4WD, and the unique challenge of finding grip on gravel
The 2015 World Rally Championship ends this weekend, on a track like no other.
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Californium: A game about the many (sur)realities of Philip K. Dick
Play as Elvin Green, a writer whose life is falling apart in this phildickian tale.
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SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows
Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware.
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Pulsar spotted outside the Milky Way is one of the most energetic ever seen
First gamma-ray pulsar outside our own galaxy found in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Cop—fired for having lapel cam turned off a lot—reinstated to force
Officer said cam accidentally unplugged from battery before fatal shooting of a teen.
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Mini-review: Logitech’s Create is the iPad Pro keyboard case you really want
It’s not as svelte as Apple’s stuff, but it’s a cheaper, superior keyboard.
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Lawyer who photographed and tweeted evidence from trial may face sanctions
"It's a lesson learned on my part."
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Another Greenland glacier is taking a beating
Zachariae Glacier is retreating rapidly and will be for decades.
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A new “Happy Birthday” boss? Charity claims it owns famous song’s copyright
The most valuable "orphan work" has attracted a new claimant.
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Microsoft building data centers in Germany that US government can’t touch
Microsoft will then hand the keys over to a local "data trustee."
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Pay or we’ll knock your site offline—DDoS-for-ransom attacks surge
One of the Internet's oldest and crudest attacks experiences a resurgence.
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Chinese scientists develop radar-absorbing active “stealth” material
Published research shows surface that can be tuned to absorb different bandwidths.
Feature Story
Sprawling? Pssht—no one streamlines everything from books to bots like Amazon
When the scale of your company is like few others, you need to streamline.
On The Radar
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electric feel
Daimler is reusing electric vehicle batteries to store renewable energy
The company says its stationary storage unit will come online in early 2016.
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Paris Attacks
French police tweet photo of fugitive wanted in Paris terror attacks
Suspect is said to be one of three siblings connected to the gun and bomb violence.
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ORLY? YA RLY
Failed Windows 3.1 system blamed for shutting down Paris airport
And the people who understand the old operating system are all retiring.
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USB 3-point-whoa
Apple sneaks a USB 3.0-compatible Lightning port into the iPad Pro
Faster transfer speeds will require separate cables that aren't here yet.
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Muddying the waters
FBI: “The allegation that we paid CMU $1M to hack into Tor is inaccurate”
Revelation raises more questions than it answers, Carnegie Mellon still silent.
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Halo Effect
Halo 5 drives Xbox One to the top selling spot in October
Microsoft's console has one of its occasional good months.
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Survey design is important
Autism numbers are high, but new spike is linked to survey change
Earlier surveys may have counted some autism cases as developmental delays.
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high performance
LLVM to get Fortran compiler that targets parallel GPUs in clusters
Nvidia and US National Labs will open source the results.
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The Amazing Play Store Update
Google Play Books gets more comic book friendly with new horizontal mode
Flip your phone sideways and get a zoomed in, continually scrolling view.
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WTF! space junk
Airborne observers track space junk as it breaks up over Sri Lanka
Clouds prevent those on the ground from seeing the show.
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License and registration, please
Cops pull over Google car for doing 24mph in a 35mph zone
Google: "We’re proud to say we’ve never been ticketed!”
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what's an extra border camera?
Border Patrol will deploy body cameras despite “limited effectiveness” concerns
Draft internal review suggested skepticism, but agency moving forward on cameras.
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Too big to heal?
Doctors urge feds to nix mergers between giant health insurers
Deals would collapse insurance market, harm consumers, doctors group warns.
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All the amiibo
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD launching on Wii U in March
Also announced: Super Mario Maker Web portal, release date for Star Fox Zero, female Link.
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Fashion misfit
Fossil acquires Misfit to bring connectivity to more fashionable accessories
The $260-million acquisition will take place before the end of the fiscal year.
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SEE NO EVIL
Password-pilfering app exposes weakness in iOS and Android vetting process
Vetting process for both App Store and Google Play failed to spot suspicious app.
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Dirty torpedo
Russian plans for massive nuclear undersea attack drone revealed by newscast
A long-range nuclear torpedo intended to spread radiation in the economic centers of enemies.
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breeders wanted
Past mass extinctions preferentially wiped out large species
Harsh conditions selected for species that could reproduce quickly.
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Use your words wisely
FCC: We aren’t banning DD-WRT on Wi-Fi routers
Commission eliminates guidance language that called for DD-WRT restriction.
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Aircraft Surveillance
UN deal allows nations to track aircraft from space, not just from land
Accord is a reaction to last year's disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370.
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$aving$
Dealmaster: Get the new Alienware Steam Machine with controller for $649
And a bunch of great deals to consider while starting your holiday shopping.
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Always read the label
General Mills sued over nutritional content of Cheerios Protein
Cereal has twice the protein of regular but twice the serving size, 17x the sugar.
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What a deal
Verizon offers $10-a-day global roaming that uses your existing data plan
Carrier mocks T-Mobile's free (but slow) data roaming.
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I want my YTV
YouTube Music launches today on Android and iOS
Subscribers to YouTube Red can listen to music offline or in the background.
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But still no NFC support
Android Wear gets cellular support, still needs to be paired with a phone
Android Wear can now pair to your smartphone over a cellular connection.
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8th time's the charm
Samsung’s new Exynos 8 SoC includes an LTE modem and its first custom CPU
The company seems serious about moving away from Qualcomm's chips.
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Foxy iLady
Firefox finally comes to iOS
But, as expected, it uses WebKit rather than Gecko.
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I can fly twice as high
Drone collides with Seattle Ferris wheel, busts through plastic table
Seattle police: "There were no injuries. There was no damage to the wheel."
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late to the game
Apple in talks to develop a person-to-person payment service, WSJ says
Like Venmo or Gmail’s person-to-person payments, Apple hopes to expand Apple Pay.
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So much for being invisible
Tor director: FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to break Tor, hand over IPs
Feds may have obtained Tor IP addresses with no warrant during Silk Road 2 case.
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Going dutch
Dutch police to those firing lasers at planes: We’re onto you
Between July and October, there were roughly 100 reported cases at Schiphol.
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Good while it lasted
T-Mobile raises unlimited data price from $80 to $95 per month
"No extra cost" promise doesn't apply to every plan.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
The direction of computing is only going in one way—to the cloud
After a rocky start, open-source and hybrid cloud initiatives have righted the ship.
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Feature Story (3 pages)
BlackBerry Priv review: Android fixes the OS, but the hardware can’t compete
$700 for a bad keyboard, poor camera, iffy build quality, and old software? No thanks.
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Feature Story (4 pages)
iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS
There's some promise here, but iOS makes this a very different kind of computer.
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Fallout 4 review: Check your next-gen expectations at the vault door
Pacing and plotting issues hamper the best content in this incredibly huge quest.
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