John Timmer 2021-07-25 09:00:48 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Some seismic waves bounce off Mars' core before reaching the InSight lander. We've learned a lot about our planet's interior simply by tracking how the seismic energy released by earthquakes moves through…
Ars Contributors 2021-07-24 09:00:47 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Cooling water is only one factor that limits the productivity of nuclear power plants. With extreme weather causing power failures in California and Texas, it’s increasingly clear that the existing power infrastructure…
Ron Amadeo 2021-07-23 15:16:06 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Blocking individual users in Google Drive! Finally!Google A notification pops up on your phone: "Click here for hot XXX action!" It's Google Drive again. Someone shared a document containing that title, and…
Beth Mole 2021-07-23 16:25:47 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Do you ever forget things, like a doctor's appointment or a lunch date? Do you sometimes struggle to think of…
Jim Salter 2021-07-23 16:40:01 arstechnica.com Enlarge / This photo has a job application for Boston University hidden within it. The technique introduced by Wang, Liu, and Cui could hide data inside an image classifier rather than just an image.…
John Timmer 2021-07-22 11:00:52 arstechnica.com Just one week after Google's DeepMind AI group finally described its biology efforts in detail, the company is releasing a paper that explains how it analyzed nearly every protein encoded in the human genome…
Tim De Chant 2021-07-22 12:36:17 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Power lines are cast in silhouette as the Creek Fire creeps up on on the Shaver Springs community off of Tollhouse Road on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 in Auberry, CA. It…
Financial Times 2021-07-22 12:56:00 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant, operated by Saudi Aramco, in Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, June 28, 2021. Bloomberg | Getty Images Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, confirmed…
Ron Amadeo 2021-07-22 13:32:54 arstechnica.com Bloomberg / Getty Images Google says it has fixed a major Chrome OS bug that locked users out of their devices. Google's bulletin says that Chrome OS version 91.0.4472.165, which was briefly available this week,…
Jon Brodkin 2021-07-22 17:30:16 arstechnica.com Enlarge / 60 Starlink satellites stacked for launch at SpaceX facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX can keep launching broadband satellites despite a lawsuit filed by Viasat, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Viasat sued…
Dan Goodin 2021-07-22 16:12:17 arstechnica.com Kaseya—the remote management software seller at the center of a ransomware operation that struck as many as 1,500 downstream networks—said it has obtained a decryptor that should successfully restore data encrypted during the Fourth…
Jim Salter 2021-07-22 13:36:05 arstechnica.com Enlarge / "Dude, it can't be DNS." "How much you wanna bet?" A massive Internet outage today has downdetector.com covered in warnings for popular websites and services, such as the PlayStation Network, Steam, Fidelity Investments,…
John Timmer 2021-07-21 15:00:49 arstechnica.com Biggs, et. al. Wearable electronics, like watches and fitness trackers, represent the next logical step in computing. They've sparked an interest in the development of flexible electronics, which could expand the category to include…
Jim Salter 2021-07-21 15:10:12 arstechnica.com Today, Google announced a major expansion of its ability to warn users of crowded mass transit ahead of time. The feature originally launched in June 2019 and covered roughly 200 cities globally, using user-reported data…
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2021-07-21 09:49:50 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Lyft will switch its map provider from Google to Here.Lyft The ride-hailing company Lyft is changing up its maps, which until now have been powered by Google. Lyft will now use…
John Timmer 2021-07-20 16:38:48 arstechnica.com Researchers and policy analysts have checked and double-checked future climate scenarios. We know how much carbon dioxide we can emit and still keep the world from getting more than 2ºC warmer, and we can…
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2021-07-20 10:41:50 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The biggest impediment to EV adoption appears to be cost of ownership, according to EY's 2021 Mobility Consumer Index. Carlos Sanchez Pereyra/Getty Images Electric vehicles are increasingly breaking into the mainstream.…
Sean Gallagher 2021-07-20 11:00:35 arstechnica.com Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories We're in phase three of our machine-learning project now—that is, we've gotten past denial and anger, and we're now sliding into bargaining…
Sam Machkovech 2021-07-19 14:45:22 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Microsoft has advertised "Xbox Velocity Architecture" to summarize a range of game-loading boosts for its newest consoles. The upcoming DirectStorage API is primed to bring some of those benefits to Windows PCs,…
Jon Brodkin 2021-07-19 18:12:26 arstechnica.com Dish Network Dish Network has agreed to pay AT&T at least $5 billion over 10 years for network access amid a feud between Dish and T-Mobile. Dish is in the early stages of building…
Samuel Axon 2021-07-19 15:21:28 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The MagSafe Battery pack attached to iPhone 12 Pro models. Apple pushed out new versions of its iOS, tvOS, and watchOS operating systems for iPhone, Apple TV, and Apple Watch devices on…
Eric Berger 2021-07-19 08:40:19 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket launches from a remote site in West Texas.Blue Origin Officials with the rocket company Blue Origin said they remain on track for their first human spaceflight on…
WIRED 2021-07-18 09:30:01 arstechnica.com Clearly the quickest way to bypass Microsoft facial recognition, no? Biometric authentication is a key piece of the tech industry's plans to make the world password-less. But a new method for duping Microsoft's Windows Hello…
John Timmer 2021-07-18 09:45:29 arstechnica.com Thanks to the development of DNA-sequencing technology, it has become trivial to obtain the sequence of bases that encode a protein and translate that to the sequence of amino acids that make up the…
Financial Times 2021-07-17 09:00:20 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Tourists enjoy a walk on Lake Baikal in March 2021. (credit: Natalia Fedosenko/TASS/Getty Images) On the shore of Lake Baikal, deep in eastern Siberia, one of the most ambitious feats of modern…
John Timmer 2021-07-16 12:52:24 arstechnica.com NASA announced on Friday that it has switched to backup computing hardware on the Hubble Space Telescope, potentially ending over a month of uncertainty regarding the telescope's future. The success came just two days after…
Jon Brodkin 2021-07-16 15:12:40 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Illustration of fiber-optic cables. The California legislature unanimously approved a plan to build a statewide, open-access fiber network yesterday. The legislation was supported by Democrats and Republicans in votes of 78-0 in…
Beth Mole 2021-07-16 16:18:49 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Biogen's new Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm continues to face opposition after its contentious approval by the Food and Drug Administration last…
Eric Berger 2021-07-16 16:29:01 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., is seen at NASA headquarters in 2019.NASA The US House Appropriations Committee passed a budget bill for NASA on Thursday, and it's generally good for the space agency.…
Samuel Axon 2021-07-16 16:46:58 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A potential Apple car or self-driving vehicle platform is still years away, but a key executive has shifted his focus to it. Another executive shuffle is underway at Apple, according to Insider.…
Jim Salter 2021-07-16 14:04:24 arstechnica.com Enlarge / These AirPods, displayed at the Apple Park Visitor Center in Cupertino, are genuine—but spotting the difference between real and counterfeit electronics isn't always simple. US Customs and Border Protection reports that so far in…
Sean Gallagher 2021-07-15 11:00:12 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. Is Our Machine Learning? View more stories There's a moment in any foray into new technological territory when you realize you may have embarked…
Tim De Chant 2021-07-15 12:39:43 arstechnica.com Facebook’s ability to track users and show them certain ads appears to be tanking thanks to Apple’s “ask not to track” feature, according to some advertisers. Apple rolled out the privacy prompt in…
