Jon Brodkin 2021-04-22 13:22:28 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Then-T-Mobile CEO John Legere testifies before the House Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee on March 12, 2019 in Washington, DC.Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla T-Mobile paid then-CEO John Legere $137.2 million in 2020,…
Timothy B. Lee 2021-04-22 13:38:56 arstechnica.com Sjo / Getty Last Saturday, two men died when a Tesla Model S crashed into a tree in a residential neighborhood. Authorities said they found no one in the driver's seat—one man was…
Jon Brodkin 2021-04-22 17:11:27 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Picture of a Comcast router/modem gateway from the company's website. Comcast today offered the latest hint of a future in which its cable customers won't be limited to 35Mbps upload speeds. Announcing…
Samuel Axon 2021-04-22 13:57:31 arstechnica.com Samuel Axon Yet another report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has emerged with details of Apple's future product plans. Citing "people with knowledge of the matter," the article broadly describes some of the key upcoming…
Financial Times 2021-04-22 09:54:03 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., speaks about the new iPhone during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, Calif. on Sept. 10, 2019.Bloomberg Apple will expand its…
Eric Berger 2021-04-21 13:05:35 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Bill Nelson, former Democratic senator from Florida, appears at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.Saul Loeb/AFP/Bloomberg via Getty Images The US Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing for former Democratic Senator Bill…
Jon Brodkin 2021-04-21 13:14:10 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A stack of 60 Starlink satellites launched in 2019. SpaceX has accused satellite-broadband rival OneWeb of spreading a false story claiming that the companies' satellites nearly crashed into each other. In reality,…
John Timmer 2021-04-21 14:53:33 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A multi-wavelength image of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. Supernovae happen. We've witnessed enough of them that we're pretty sure of that. Why they happen has been another issue entirely. As we've…
Dan Goodin 2021-04-21 15:30:08 arstechnica.com For years, Israeli digital forensics firm Cellebrite has helped governments and police around the world break into confiscated mobile phones, mostly by exploiting vulnerabilities that went overlooked by device manufacturers. Now, Moxie Marlinspike—creator of…
Samuel Axon 2021-04-21 17:33:42 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Apple presents the new iPad Pro at its April 20, 2021 event. Apple crammed quite a few announcements into a short, one-hour presentation yesterday: new iPad Pros, new iMacs, a new Apple…
WIRED 2021-04-21 13:45:38 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The lure of frozen deliciousness that led to uncovering insane techno craziness. (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Of all the mysteries and injustices of the McDonald’s ice cream machine, the one that Jeremy O’Sullivan…
Tim De Chant 2021-04-20 11:36:28 arstechnica.com What if the British crown had offered the Luddites a retraining program and the promise of good-paying factory jobs? Perhaps they would have accepted the textile transition? That’s essentially what the nation’s largest…
Timothy B. Lee 2021-04-20 11:49:52 arstechnica.com felixmizioznikov / Getty Tesla CEO Elon Musk is fighting back against speculation that a deadly Tesla crash in the Houston area on Saturday might have occurred while Tesla's Autopilot driver-assistance software was active.…
Corey Gaskin 2021-04-20 13:26:49 arstechnica.com The Apple TV 4K set-top box will receive some needed upgrades, including to the remote. Today at an event largely focused on the new M1-powered iMacs and iPad Pros, Apple told attending press and…
Dan Goodin 2021-04-20 21:41:36 arstechnica.com Still smarting from last month's dump of phone numbers belonging to 500 million Facebook users, the social media giant has a new privacy crisis to contend with: a tool that, on a mass scale,…
Dan Goodin 2021-04-20 15:40:51 arstechnica.com Hackers backed by nation-states are exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the Pulse Secure VPN to bypass two-factor authentication protections and gain stealthy access to networks belonging to a raft of organizations in the US Defense…
Ars Staff 2021-04-20 15:58:00 arstechnica.com Ars Technica Today's Dealmaster is headlined by a nice discount on Anker's Soundcore Life Q30: the wireless noise-canceling headphones are currently down to $68 at Amazon. That's $12 off the pair's usual going rate…
Jon Brodkin 2021-04-20 13:42:16 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Promotional image of Crypto on Venmo.Venmo The PayPal-owned Venmo service will let users buy, sell, and hold bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies within the Venmo app, the company announced today. "Customers will have the…
Dan Goodin 2021-04-20 07:42:07 arstechnica.com Getty Images Security researchers have uncovered a batch of Google Play apps that stole users’ text messages and made unauthorized purchases on users’ dime. The malware, which was hidden in eight apps that had…
Samuel Axon 2021-04-19 14:10:42 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The event invitation that went out to members of the press and Apple's partners.Apple Liveblog starts in: View Liveblog At 10am Pacific time (1pm Eastern) on Tuesday, April 20, Apple will host…
Timothy B. Lee 2021-04-19 14:41:24 arstechnica.com Sundry Photography / Getty A 2019 Tesla Model S has crashed in a fiery blaze in The Woodlands, an area north of Houston. The crash, which happened on Saturday around 11:25 pm local…
Ars Contributors 2021-04-19 15:11:28 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Picking up moisture from the ice-free sea, a storm builds and heads towards Europe. Extreme weather has become the new normal—whether it’s precipitation, drought, wind, heat, or cold. The question of how…
Dan Goodin 2021-04-19 16:08:14 arstechnica.com Hackers have compromised more than 120 ad servers over the past year in an ongoing campaign that displays malicious advertisements on tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of devices as they visit…
Tim De Chant 2021-04-19 16:48:32 arstechnica.com Parler is about to be re-platformed. The app for the “free speech” social media company will be available once again on Apple’s App Store. Apple reinstated Parler on April 14, according to a…
Ron Amadeo 2021-04-19 12:03:54 arstechnica.com Samsung Samsung is finally starting to support eSIM in the US. XDA Developers reports the first working combo is the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra on T-Mobile. You'll need an update to enable…
Eric Berger 2021-04-17 16:10:21 arstechnica.com Enlarge / NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover.NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has resolved the issues with its Ingenuity helicopter on…
Tim De Chant 2021-04-16 12:09:50 arstechnica.com China News Service | Getty Images Don’t let American companies sell semiconductor design software to Chinese firms, two members of Congress are asking the Department of Commerce. Sen. Tom Cotton (R- Ark.) and…
Dan Goodin 2021-04-16 16:07:24 arstechnica.com Getty Images A publicly available software development tool contained malicious code that stole the authentication credentials that apps need to access sensitive resources. It's the latest revelation of a supply chain attack that has…
Eric Berger 2021-04-16 17:35:30 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Rendering of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the surface of the Moon.NASA In an extraordinary announcement on Friday, NASA said that it has selected SpaceX and its Starship vehicle to serve as the…
John Timmer 2021-04-16 15:40:38 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The Arkansas state capitol. Last week, the Arkansas state House of Representatives passed a bill that would amend state education law to allow teachers in public schools to teach creationism as "a…
Sam Machkovech 2021-04-16 11:21:15 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The PS5 is bigger than Xbox Series X in more ways than one (at least, in the United States).Sam Machkovech While we're still waiting on exact sales numbers for last year's newest…
Tim De Chant 2021-04-15 12:54:20 arstechnica.com Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos used his final letter to Amazon shareholders to focus on employee well-being and the company’s significant carbon footprint. Bezos’ new emphasis on employee well-being comes on the heels of…
Samuel Axon 2021-04-15 17:39:18 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Docker running on a Mac. Docker, a popular multi-platform application used by software developers, has released a version that runs natively on Apple Silicon hardware, including Macs released with Apple's custom-designed M1…