A new Skype experience in the living room, with Xbox One
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Top Post: Report: $399 PlayStation 4 costs about $381 to build
In-Depth Reports
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Stability first: Ubuntu’s Mir won’t replace X in 14.04 desktop
And Ubuntu for phones and tablets will eventually support Android apps.
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Hands-on with the Nokia Lumia 1520 at Mach 0.6 and 13,000 feet
Shooting with the 20 megapixel PureView while airborne in a Folland Gnat trainer.
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Smart TV from LG phones home with user’s viewing habits, USB file names
It's not the premise of a sci-fi novel. Internet-connected TVs are watching you now.
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Hands-on with Firefox’s new “Australis” interface
Rounded tabs, less clutter..
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Hairy metal laser show produces bright X-Rays
Setting metallic wires on fire creates a bright X-Ray glow.
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People who don’t forget can still be tricked with false memories
People with highly superior autobiographical memory also form fake memories.
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Newegg on trial, day one: Picking a patent jury
Lawyers for a Web-spanning encryption patent ask about shopping and logging.
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You can’t beat politics with technology, says Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde
He does comedy, thinks The Pirate Bay should shut down, and distrusts Netflix/Spotify.
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Judge: “NSA exceeded the scope of authorized acquisition continuously”
New declassifed documents show legal arguments over bulk metadata collection.
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Jailbreaking and unlocking might be restricted in treaty pushed by Obama
International ban could make it difficult to change US law for the better.
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Watch Senior Editor Lee Hutchinson pull 5Gs upside down and not wet himself
Hitching a ride in a supersonic Folland Gnat is all part of the job here at Ars.
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Feds arrest ATM thieves after discovering $800,000 stuffed in a suitcase
Five more men charged in global bank heist that netted $45 million in hours.
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Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice
And we've been doing a lot of cancer studies at lower temperatures.
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Fusion reactor achieves tenfold increase in plasma confinement time
Experimental design improved heat dissipation, reducing damage to reactor walls.
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Study: More than 1 percent of Google Play apps are “aggressive” copycats
Legit Facebook and Twitter apps repackaged to snoop on users, researchers say.
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Amazon puts 26,496 CPU cores together, builds a Top 100 supercomputer
At nearly 500 teraflop/s, Amazon cloud team makes its fastest supercomputer yet.
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Don’t read too much into the PS4’s million day-one sales
A strong launch is nice, but it doesn't necessarily imply long-term success.
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Astronomers spot a six-tailed asteroid
Neither comet nor a mythical beast, it might be an asteroid spinning apart.
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Newegg hurtles toward Texas showdown with famed “patent troll”
More than 120 companies paid up for using standard Web encryption. Newegg won't.
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Schneier tells Washington NSA broke Internet’s security for everyone
And techies can only fix it if government stays out of the way.
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Review: Dead Rising 3 packs in the zombies and the next-gen fun
It might not be a looker, but that doesn’t mean the Xbox One’s power is wasted.
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Google is working on a new Android camera API, supports Camera RAW
Could a new API shore up Android's biggest weak spot?
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Password hack of vBulletin.com fuels fears of in-the-wild 0-day attacks
Hacks on sites using the widely used forum software spread to its maker.
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Gallery: Ars goes behind the scenes with the Caterham F1 racing team
Blood, sweat, oil, tears, SSDs, VMware—it all meshes together trackside.
Feature Story
Xbox One review: More than a game console, less than a living room revolution
Limited multitasking and voice commands aren't worth an extra $100 on their own.
On The Radar
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No moar Editz 4 Higher
Wikipedia wants PR firm to stop paid editing services, hints at lawsuit
Wiki-PR apparently created new articles at prices up to $1,000, plus fees.
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A++++++++ would buy again
Shoppers buy up over 10,000 PlayStation 4s on eBay over launch weekend
If you're looking, there are still about 13,000 listings left.
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stop in the name of the law
US senators say there’s “no evidence” bulk metadata surveillance is useful
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) and others join as amici to lawsuit filed against NSA.
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Now where is my DBZ app?
Google launches Glass Dev Kit preview, shows off augmented reality apps
Native apps will finally unlock the full power of Google's futuristic headset.
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Don't mess with NJ
E-sports site settles covert Bitcoin mining case for $1 million
But it will only have to pay $350,000 if it follows terms of 10-year deal.
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ANYBODY WANT TO BUY A WATCH?
Samsung “ships” 800,000 Galaxy Gears in 2 months, which means very little
New numbers don't do much to dispel the poor retail reports.
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New neighbors
San Jose City Hall to be permanent home for Silicon Valley patent office
Now a patent can get made down the street from the courts arguing over it.
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four point four
Verizon surprises everyone by updating its Moto X to KitKat first
The worst carrier for Android updates turns the trend on its ear.
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The votes are counted
Nokia shareholders back sale of unaffordable phone division to Microsoft
Microsoft wasn't the only company interested in the Finnish phone business.
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Supra tuo gremio
Holiday Dealmaster continues with $120 off an HP Spectre Ultrabook
We've also got plenty of other portables and some neat toys and gadgets!
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Freebie marketing at its finest
Report: $399 PlayStation 4 costs about $381 to build
New console is much less expensive to make than the PS3 was at launch.
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Requiescat in pace
Google to replace satellite image showing scene of California teen’s murder
“When I see this image, it’s still like that happened yesterday,” father says.
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Stop the broadcast
Live gameplay streaming on Xbox One delayed until 2014
Twitch app will let you watch, but not broadcast, on launch day.
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win some, lose some
Second anti-patent-troll bill shows up, and splits emerge on the first
A bigger review system for "business method" patents is out—in both bills.
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Watching the City on a Hill
Boston policemen complain about new plan to watch their movements
Anon officer: “No one likes it. Who wants to be followed all over the place?”
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In numeris veritas
Federal Reserve: While bitcoins hold “promise,” we have no regulatory authority
Government agencies tell a US Senate committee what they think of Bitcoin.
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Barn door to be closed soon
Yahoo will encrypt between data centers, use SSL for all sites
CEO Marissa Mayer promises Yahoo will be locked down by March 2014.
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COMING TO A COURTROOM NEAR YOU
Samsung patent filing envisions wraparound smartphone screen of the future
Samsung wants to wrap a flexible AMOLED display around the sides of a device.
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We've got your live stream
Watch NASA attempt to send the MAVEN mission to Mars
An Atlas V is set to lift off just before 1:30pm Eastern today.
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No way, no how
Supreme Court declines to stop Verizon metadata handover to NSA
Writ of mandamus petition filed by privacy advocacy group after Snowden leaks.
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But what time is it?
Qualcomm’s Toq wants to be your platform-agnostic color smartwatch
$349.99 Toq uses E Ink, LCD display mashup, goes on sale on December 2.
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Cleaning up search
Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube
Microsoft picture detection technology helps improve Google search.
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Burning Updates!
Amazon updates tablets to Fire OS 3.1: Goodreads and wireless display
One of our favorite Android skins gets some polish and some new tricks.
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One more quarter
World’s best Donkey Kong players duke it out at Kong Off 3
Update: Chess pro who learned Kong on an emulator wins with 5th all-time score.
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tell your secrets
Gov’t will notify some defendants caught by warrantless wiretaps
In a interview, Attorney General Holder says criminal cases will be reviewed.
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identity thieves
FBI warns hacking spree on government agencies is a “widespread problem”
Hack linked to man who said: "You have no idea how much we can f*ck with the US."
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Farewell, Steve
Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells WSJ that he was part of the problem
"At the end of the day, we need to break a pattern. Face it: I'm a pattern."
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Clogged tubes
Sony: “Heavy traffic” causing online problems surrounding PS4 launch [Updated]
Company adds that the hardware failure rate is below 0.4 percent.
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lending a hand
Hammond supporters publish alleged list of foreign targets that FBI had him hack
List includes gov't sites from Turkey, Iran, Brazil, Slovenia, and more.
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Welcome to America
Estonia to extradite 3 men for “Operation Ghost Click” malware scheme
US government claims botnet group took in $14 million from traffic diversion.
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Hacktile disfunction
HealthCare.gov targeted by more than a dozen hacking attempts
Officials also tracked denial-of-service software that targeted Obamacare site.
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Too much cloud
DOD says “no más” on commercial cloud, puts brakes on $450M contract
DISA considers axing contract entirely due to lack of interest.
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Feature Story (4 pages)
The State of Smartphones in 2013: Part I of the new Ars Ultimate Guide
Eight high-end phones, three operating systems, one guide to make sense of it all.
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Feature Story (3 pages)
Review: Apple’s Retina iPad mini is the small tablet we wanted a year ago
Great screen and drastically better performance both come at a price.
Ars SmartStream
Exploring the smarter Internet
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IBM | 11/15/13
Think “Dinosaurs” Don’t Belong in the Cloud? Think Again
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The Guardian | 11/15/13
Big data: Camden council leads the digital revolution
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Ars Technica | 11/11/13
iOS 7 downloads consumed 20 percent of an ISP’s traffic on release day
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IBM | 11/08/13
The Good News? There’s a Cloud for That
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Sydney Morning Hearld | 11/08/13
Big data project aims to stop mining accidents before they happen
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PlayStation 4 hardware review: Off to a mixed start
Sony fixes a few old problems while adding some new features (and new problems).
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Android 4.4 KitKat, thoroughly reviewed
Tons of user- and system-level changes make KitKat one of the biggest releases ever.
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