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The Ars Technica guide to keyboards: Mechanical, membrane, and buckling springs
Explaining the mushy and the magnificent.
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Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu
The risk to the public is low, and the milk supply is safe.
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Taylor Swift fans dancing and jumping created last year’s “Swift quakes”
"Shake It Off" produced tremors equivalent to a local magnitude earthquake of 0.851.
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SCOTUS mifepristone case: Justices focus on anti-abortion groups’ legal standing
The case has big implications for women's health and the authority of the FDA.
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Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users
Two new reports show criminals may be using your device to cover their online tracks.
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Missouri AG sues Media Matters over its X research, demands donor names
Media watchdog slams "meritless, expensive, and harassing investigations."
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WWDC 2024 starts on June 10 with announcements about iOS 18 and beyond
Speculation is rampant that Apple will make its first big moves in generative AI.
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Cities: Skylines 2 gets long-awaited official mod support and map editor
Modding was seen as the most important next step by developer's leader.
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Chrome launches native build for Arm-powered Windows laptops
When the big Windows-on-Arm relaunch happens in mid-2024, Chrome will be ready.
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Bridge collapses put transportation agencies’ emergency plans to the test
Agencies need to build or find excess vehicle capacity before a bridge fails.
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Florida braces for lawsuits over law banning kids from social media
Florida law banning kids from social media is unconstitutional, critics say.
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Genesis unveils its take on the big luxury EV—the Neolun Concept
Korea's luxury automaker brings five surprises to the New York International Auto Show.
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Daily Telescope: A protostar with a stunning protoplanetary disc
Dust and stars, stars and dust.
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Super Mario Maker’s “final boss” was a fraud all along
"Team 0%" declares a bittersweet victory as Trimming the Herbs' creator comes clean.
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Starliner’s first commander: Don’t expect perfection on crew test flight
Dave Calhoun, who has led Boeing since 2020, will step down as CEO at the end of the year.
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Workers with job flexibility and security have better mental health
Job flexibility and security were linked to significantly less psychological distress and anxiety.
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Flying coach? At least you’ll be able to watch movies on an in-seat OLED TV soon
Who needs legroom when you have 8.3 million individually emissive pixels?
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Justice Department indicts 7 accused in 14-year hack campaign by Chinese gov
Hacks allegedly targeted US officials and politicians, their spouses and dozens of companies.
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Mozilla’s privacy service drops a provider with ties to people-search sites
Owner of Onerep removal service launched "dozens of people-search services."
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macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 released to fix the stuff that the 14.4 update broke
The 14.4 release introduced a number of problems the new update claims to fix.
Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change—and things aren’t great
This episode of Edge of Knowledge focuses on our rapidly transforming world.
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Where’d my results go? Google Search’s chatbot is no longer opt-in
The search chatbot used to be opt-in, but now Google will try it on normal users.
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Lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X against anti-hate speech group dismissed by US judge
Ruling says case appeared to be directed at "punishing" speech from nonprofit.
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“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11
"It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived." It never did.
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Apple, Google, and Meta are failing DMA compliance, EU suspects
Tech giants must defend against EU's "concrete evidence" of non-compliance.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the philosophy of self, identity, and memory
The critically acclaimed film remains deeply relevant as it marks its 20th anniversary.
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Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life
Don't not see it.
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Elon Musk’s improbable path to making X an “everything app”
X must do more than tack on new features if it wants WeChat's success.
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Testing the 2024 BMW M2—maybe the last M car with a manual transmission
We've tested the three-pedal, stickshift BMW M2 on the road and on track.
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Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO
Reddit must now answer to its shareholders as well as its vocal users.
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 is gritty, janky, goofy, tough, and lots of fun
This epic RPG reminds us of Skyrim's ambitious jank, but with way better combat.
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It’s a few years late, but a prototype supersonic airplane has taken flight
"This milestone will be invaluable to Boom’s revival of supersonic travel."
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GM stops sharing driver data with brokers amid backlash
Customers, wittingly or not, had their driving data shared with insurers.
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Take a trip through gaming history with this charming GDC display
Come for the retro Will Wright photo, stay for the game with a pack-in harmonica.
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Cable ISP fined $10,000 for lying to FCC about where it offers broadband
Small ISP admitted lying to FCC about size of network to block funding to rivals.
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Samsung users ask, “Why does the S-Pen smell so bad?“
Apparently the "Ultra" phone's S-Pen often smells like burning plastic.
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Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default
Instagram never directly told users it was limiting political content by default.