About 14,650 years ago, sea level jumped twelve meters in just a few centuries—a puzzling past sea level rise might have its missing piece ~science Article 1001 words 8 votes
The Hubble Space Telescope launched thirty years ago—then the problems began ~space spaceflight.scientific astronomy Article 991 words 7 votes
The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer ~health Article 1737 words 14 votes
Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine ~humanities.history Article 852 words 9 votes
500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word” ~humanities.languages Article 514 words 9 votes
Zoom's explosion in popularity is shining a bright spotlight on the service's privacy and data-collection practices ~tech privacy Article 1151 words 15 votes
Half-Life: Alyx review (spoiler-free): The greatest VR adventure game yet—and then some ~games Article 1748 words 21 votes
French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers ~tech apple Article 740 words 9 votes
Inside Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week—and settle Mars ~space Article 1506 words 10 votes
Companies are contracting out more jobs—that’s not great for workers ~life work Article 955 words 10 votes
New patch for The Witcher 3 on Switch enables sharing a saved game with the PC version (Steam/GOG) and adds extensive graphics options ~games Article 615 words 16 votes
Details pour in from New Horizons’ visit to Arrokoth, an object in the Kuiper Belt ~space astronomy spaceflight.scientific Article 1306 words 7 votes
Boeing's Starliner could have failed catastrophically during a December mission if a software error hadn't been found and fixed while the vehicle was in orbit ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 583 words 10 votes
The team behind Warcraft III looks back at the game that birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing ~games Article 1341 words 5 votes
Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections ~tech apple google privacy Article 844 words 9 votes
Boeing's woes continue: 737 Max fix slips to summer—and that’s just one of Boeing’s problems ~transport Article 1089 words 5 votes
Inside TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch ~games Article 861 words 17 votes
Apparently Samsung just put a removable battery in one of it's new phones ~tech android Article 559 words 6 votes
Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped "through the net" docs say ~health nsfw medicine healthcare Article 373 words 18 votes
Speedrunning is plagued with cheating, and technological advances are making it more and more difficult to detect ~games Article 790 words 11 votes
Heatwaves on multiple continents linked by jet stream tendency ~enviro Article 594 words, published Dec 11 2019 9 votes
FCC proposes designating 988 as national suicide prevention and mental health hotline number ~health.mental Article 600 words 19 votes
The modders who spent fifteen years fixing Knights of the Old Republic 2 ~games Article 1038 words 10 votes
Ars talks fighting games with Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari ~games Article 1679 words 3 votes
Vitamin E acetate found in all twenty-nine lung fluid samples tested from injured vapers ~health Article 584 words 10 votes
Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population ~science biology.marine Article 788 words 6 votes
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says ~tech privacy internet Article 1360 words 15 votes
Ars Cardboard's picks for the best new board games from Essen Spiel 2019 ~games.tabletop board games Article 1088 words 5 votes
Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification ~tech privacy security Article 416 words 22 votes
Three "programming" board games: Lovelace & Babbage, Quirky Circuits, and Pixoid ~games.tabletop board games Article 1062 words 9 votes
Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. Here’s what we know so far. ~tech Article 1305 words 29 votes
How Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache ~science astronomy Article 1497 words 7 votes
US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system ~tech Article 341 words 14 votes
Minecraft: Builders & Biomes condenses series tropes into a family-friendly board game with tough tactical decisions ~games.tabletop board games Article 1640 words 12 votes
An overview and ranking of the seventeen available Ticket to Ride maps ~games.tabletop board games Article 686 words 13 votes
Untitled Goose Game review: The year's best video game about geese, reviewed from a goose's point of view. ~games Article 1119 words 12 votes
Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway ~space Article 1540 words 4 votes
Rockstar releases their own game launcher, which is now required to play some of their Steam games like GTA5 and Max Payne 3 ~games Article 524 words 15 votes
Elon Musk spent $50,000 digging into Thai submarine critic Vern Unsworth’s personal life ~tech Article 1332 words 15 votes
Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules ~tech internet Article 821 words 12 votes
YACHT's new album Chain Tripping was created by inventing their own machine-learning-based composition process and applying it to their back catalogue ~music Article 1009 words 6 votes
Collector acquires rare Konami Space School cartridge and QTa adapter for Famicom, dumps them for emulation ~games Article 463 words 7 votes