John Timmer 2021-01-15 07:30:45 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A selfie taken by the InSight Lander. Today, NASA announced that it was giving up on its attempts to place a temperature sensor several meters under the Martian surface. Part of the…
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Samuel Axon 2021-01-15 12:33:14 arstechnica.com Enlarge / This is the 16-inch MacBook Pro as it's being sold now. According to today's report, the new one will generally look quite similar. According to a report in Bloomberg, Apple plans to…
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2021-01-15 13:15:09 arstechnica.com This is the $44,900 Mini John Cooper Works GP, a stripped-out, lowered, 301hp hot hatch. Jonathan Gitlin The wing arch extensions are made from carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and the reason this one…
Timothy B. Lee 2021-01-15 14:29:03 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Nuro makes small electric vehicles for hauling cargo. They are designed to be street-legal but have no room for passengers.Nuro Until this week, the federal government's car safety regulations were based…
Eric Berger 2021-01-15 15:46:32 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Co-Founder & CEO of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki President & Founding Director Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Professor, Eric Lander, speak onstage during the TIME 100 Health Summit in 2019. Brian Ach/Getty…
Kyle Orland 2021-01-15 16:00:07 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A lot of neon green power potentiallyAurich Lawson / Getty Images The "instant on" feature that's activated by default on new Xbox Series S/X consoles could suck up a total of 4…
Kate Cox 2021-01-15 14:39:14 arstechnica.com Enlarge / You see Facebook, Facebook sees you... Millions of Facebook users in Illinois will be receiving about $340 each as Facebook settles a case alleging it broke state law when it collected facial…
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2021-01-15 09:55:14 arstechnica.com Toyota On Thursday, Toyota reached a settlement with the US government over a decade of noncompliance with Clean Air Act reporting regulations. Under the law, defects or recalls that affect vehicle emissions equipment…
Dan Goodin 2021-01-15 07:58:02 arstechnica.com Getty Images DNS over HTTPS is a new protocol that protects domain-lookup traffic from eavesdropping and manipulation by malicious parties. Rather than an end-user device communicating with a DNS server over a plaintext channel—as…
Jonathan M. Gitlin 2021-01-14 09:57:27 arstechnica.com Enlarge / 158,000 Teslas will brick their infotainment screens within 3-4 years due to a design defect.Getty Images/Jonathan Gitlin In November, we learned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had opened an…
Samuel Axon 2021-01-14 17:17:35 arstechnica.com As expected, AMD took to the CES stage this week to announce new laptop CPUs. Most of the new Ryzen 5000 mobile family of chips share similarities with the desktop CPUs the company announced…
Ron Amadeo 2021-01-14 10:00:10 arstechnica.com from left to right, the Galaxy S21 Ultra, the S21+, and the S21. Samsung The front of the S21+. The front of all three phones looks pretty much identical. Samsung The many colors of…
Timothy B. Lee 2021-01-14 10:46:46 arstechnica.com Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Parler may never recover from being banned by Amazon and a number of other technology companies, CEO John Matze told Reuters in a Wednesday interview. “I am an…
Ron Amadeo 2021-01-13 11:44:13 arstechnica.com Samsung and AMD announced in June 2019 that the two would team up to bring mobile GPUs to Samsung Exynos chips, with Samsung System LSI (the Exynos division of Samsung Electronics) licensing the Radeon…
Financial Times 2021-01-13 11:53:19 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Intel Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan during an Intel press event for CES 2020 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on January 6, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Getty Images Intel is…
Timothy B. Lee 2021-01-13 14:46:50 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua shows off a silicon photonics lidar chip slated for introduction in 2025. One of the most underrated companies in the self-driving technology sector is Mobileye, an Israeli…
Eric Berger 2021-01-13 19:46:11 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The Sun glints around the lower fin of Starship SN8 on Dec. 9, 2020.Trevor Mahlmann On Wednesday, in South Texas, SpaceX fired up its newest Starship prototype not once or twice. Rather,…
Jon Brodkin 2021-01-13 15:46:46 arstechnica.com Enlarge / AT&T corporate offices on November 10, 2020, in El Segundo, California. AT&T is killing off the online-video service formerly known as DirecTV Now and introducing a no-contract option for the newer online…
Timothy B. Lee 2021-01-13 12:40:24 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Pro-Trump rioters clashed with police outside the US Capitol January 6, 2021.Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Airbnb is canceling all reservations in the DC metropolitan area next week—the…
Kyle Orland 2021-01-12 11:19:12 arstechnica.com Back in November, Capcom announced that personal data for up to 350,000 people may have been revealed by a "customized ransomware attack" on its systems. Today, the company announced that the number has grown…
Financial Times 2021-01-12 11:34:52 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Fisker now has a market cap of $4.1 billion thanks to a SPAC reverse merger in 2020. It says that the Ocean SUV will be the most sustainable vehicle ever sold.Fisker With…
Kyle Orland 2021-01-12 11:45:47 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Artist's conception of the gaming public eyeing the prospect of another movie-licensed game with suspicion... Bethesda will be publishing a new Indiana Jones game "with an original story" in collaboration with Wolfenstein:…
Jon Brodkin 2021-01-12 17:38:22 arstechnica.com Republican state lawmakers in North Dakota want Facebook and Twitter to face lawsuits from users who have been "censored." A bill submitted by the six legislators last week is titled, "an Act to permit…
Ron Amadeo 2021-01-12 16:35:59 arstechnica.com The LG Rollable can go from this... LG ... to this! Supposedly. LG This graphic from TCL, not LG, shows how the rollable concept works. The blue line here is the display, and it…
Jon Brodkin 2021-01-12 13:14:06 arstechnica.com Getty Images | SilverV Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon say they have suspended political donations to the 147 Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying Electoral College results, but the companies left the door…
John Timmer 2021-01-12 08:55:23 arstechnica.com In recent years, researchers have used DNA to encode everything from an operating system to malware. Rather than being a technological curiosity, these efforts were serious attempts to take advantage of DNA's properties for…
Kyle Orland 2021-01-11 14:10:50 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Very, very recently, in a game industry not very far away... Star Wars games will now be gathered together under the revitalized Lucasfilm Games banner. An announcement today on StarWars.com highlights the…
Dan Goodin 2021-01-11 14:44:37 arstechnica.com The malware used to hack Microsoft, security company FireEye, and at least a half-dozen federal agencies has “interesting similarities” to malicious software that has been circulating since at least 2015, researchers said on Monday.…
Ron Amadeo 2021-01-11 15:00:49 arstechnica.com Enlarge / A very exaggerated image of Qualcomm's sensor. It is not this big. Qualcomm Qualcomm is launching a new in-screen fingerprint sensor for smartphones, the "Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor Gen 2." Qualcomm says…
Timothy B. Lee 2021-01-11 18:01:03 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Pro-Trump protesters break windows of the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. In recent days, Facebook has been waging war on content supportive of last Wednesday's attack on the US Capitol.…
Kate Cox 2021-01-11 16:26:46 arstechnica.com In less than three days, social networking service Parler has gone from darling of the right wing to a has-been service that can no longer be accessed online. In response, the company is now…
Eric Berger 2021-01-11 11:11:55 arstechnica.com Enlarge / NASA’s Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiter’s south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on February 2, 2017.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/John Landino NASA has announced that it will extend the missions for two of its…
Kate Cox 2021-01-09 21:46:45 arstechnica.com Amazon Web Services is suspending Parler's access to its hosting services at the end of the weekend, potentially driving the service offline unless it can find a new provider. "Because Parler cannot comply with…