Riot Games' new Vanguard anti-cheat system for Valorant involves a kernel mode driver that launches at boot, raising security concerns
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NASA planning to launch an integrated Lunar Gateway in 2023
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Face ID doesn’t work when you’re wearing a mask—Apple’s about to address that
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First drug known to work against SARS-CoV-2— remdesivir—imaged in action
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NASA is counting on a lot of unproven rockets for its Artemis plan
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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
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The Hubble Space Telescope launched thirty years ago—then the problems began
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The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection
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Face masks for COVID-19: A deep dive into the data
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Zoom's explosion in popularity is shining a bright spotlight on the service's privacy and data-collection practices
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Half-Life: Alyx review (spoiler-free): The greatest VR adventure game yet—and then some
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ASCII art and permadeath: The history of roguelike games
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French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers
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Inside Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week—and settle Mars
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Companies are contracting out more jobs—that’s not great for workers
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New patch for The Witcher 3 on Switch enables sharing a saved game with the PC version (Steam/GOG) and adds extensive graphics options
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Details pour in from New Horizons’ visit to Arrokoth, an object in the Kuiper Belt
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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
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Lorne Lanning discusses his journey to become a game creator, and how the mind-control mechanic solved Oddworld's narrative problems | War Stories
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Cyan Worlds co-founder Rand Miller discusses the challenges of getting Myst to work on CD-ROM | War Stories
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The team behind Warcraft III looks back at the game that birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing
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Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections
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Boeing's woes continue: 737 Max fix slips to summer—and that’s just one of Boeing’s problems
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Inside TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch
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Apparently Samsung just put a removable battery in one of it's new phones
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Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped "through the net" docs say
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Speedrunning is plagued with cheating, and technological advances are making it more and more difficult to detect
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Heatwaves on multiple continents linked by jet stream tendency
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FCC proposes designating 988 as national suicide prevention and mental health hotline number
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The modders who spent fifteen years fixing Knights of the Old Republic 2
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"Randomizers" are breathing new life into old games
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Netflix cancels its Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival
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Ars talks fighting games with Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari
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Nintendo's Corey Olcsvary plays a selection of user-generated Super Mario Maker 2 levels and offers his thoughts on their designs
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Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
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Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
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Vitamin E acetate found in all twenty-nine lung fluid samples tested from injured vapers
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Mac Walters, creative director for the Mass Effect franchise, answers unsolved mysteries of the Mass Effect universe
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
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Ars Cardboard's picks for the best new board games from Essen Spiel 2019
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Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification
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Three "programming" board games: Lovelace & Babbage, Quirky Circuits, and Pixoid
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Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. Here’s what we know so far.
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How Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
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US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
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Minecraft: Builders & Biomes condenses series tropes into a family-friendly board game with tough tactical decisions
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