Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC designed to run a large number of games on the Steam PC platform via Linux ~games Article 982 words 35 votes
"Using an implant, a paralyzed individual managed to type out roughly ninety characters per minute simply by imagining that he was writing those characters out by hand." ~science medicine Article 941 words, published May 12 2021 14 votes
96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5 ~tech facebook apple privacy ios.14 Article 410 words 35 votes
Humble Bundle creator brings antitrust lawsuit against Valve over Steam ~games Article 1071 words 19 votes
Apple sued for terminating account with $25,000 worth of apps and videos ~tech apple amazon Article 633 words 15 votes
Comcast nightmare: Six months without Internet despite $5,000 payment ~tech internet Article 1494 words 12 votes
Mask up! How to choose and maintain the best masks for use against COVID-19 ~health Article 6799 words 11 votes
Cricut backs off plan to add subscription fee to millions of devices ~tech Article 1033 words 13 votes
Scientists solve another piece of the puzzling Antikythera mechanism ~space astronomy Article 627 words 20 votes
Google-free /e/ OS is now selling preloaded phones in the US, starting at $380 ~tech android google Article 737 words 14 votes
Gab removes their public Git repository after it reveals their developers adding (and struggling to fix) basic security issues that led to a 70GB data leak ~tech social media security Article 672 words 12 votes
Atlantic currents seem to have started fading last century ~enviro climate change Article 1073 words 6 votes
Super High-Fidelity Mario: The quest to find original gaming audio samples ~games Article 1635 words 11 votes
Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years ~science anthropology Article 1515 words 13 votes
What we know and don't know about the coronavirus "variants of concern" ~health Article 1833 words 8 votes
GameStop's stock has surged 1,500% in nine months after activist investors take board seats along with a massive short squeeze ~finance business Article 1607 words 30 votes
ADT employee covertly accessed about 200 security cameras he installed to spy on people having sex ~tech privacy security.home Article 472 words 9 votes
Xbox’s “instant on” feature could consume four billion kWh of energy by 2025 ~games Article 766 words 15 votes
Scientists stuck as China keeps foiling WHO investigation on virus origin ~health Article 532 words 16 votes
Russia may fine citizens who use SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service ~tech internet.satellite Article 471 words 13 votes
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app ~tech facebook social media privacy Article 545 words 28 votes
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business ~finance business Article 540 words 17 votes
Some educated guesses about the companies, products, and services that are facing down a terrible 2021 ~finance business Article 1335 words, published Dec 31 2020 9 votes
iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages ~tech apple Article 300 words, published Dec 15 2020 6 votes
The story of 1987's Acorn Archimedes, the first production ARM/RISC-based personal computer ~tech Article 1118 words 9 votes
SpaceX successfully flies, nearly lands Starship SN8 prototype vehicle after 12.5km suborbital test flight ~space spaceflight.suborbital rocketry Article 359 words 15 votes
Strange object recaptured by Earth, and currently in Earth orbit, is 1966 Centaur upper stage from Surveyor 2 spacecraft ~space Article 1015 words 6 votes
YouTubecore: The old, ambient, largely-Japanese music that's become a smash hit on YouTube with the help of its discoverability algorithms ~music ambient Article 1628 words 15 votes
Xbox Series X/S vs. PlayStation 5 - A direct comparison and the Ars launch-month verdict ~games Article 1068 words 13 votes
The 1991 Thanksgiving Day prank in NASA's Mission Control that went horribly wrong ~space Article 736 words 9 votes
Why are nuclear plants so expensive? Safety’s only part of the story ~enviro energy Article 1323 words 13 votes
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine goes to FDA today for emergency authorization ~health Article 553 words 12 votes
The old way of handing out corporate hardware doesn’t work anymore ~tech security Article 898 words 9 votes
It’s launch day for the SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the ISS ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.crewed Article 672 words 11 votes
SpaceX Starlink beta users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures ~tech internet.satellite Article 1055 words 10 votes
After twenty years of service, the International Space Station flies into an uncertain future ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 1227 words 11 votes
NASA formally objects to AST & Science proposal for megaconstellation of large satellites, citing risk of "catastrophic collision" ~space satellites Article 941 words 8 votes
RIP Google Play Music, 2011–2020 - A look back at the nine-year life of Google's music service ~music Article 24 votes
One resolution to rule them all: Lord of the Rings trilogy coming to 4K Blu-ray ~movies Article 363 words 13 votes
Everything we know so far about the mysterious and confusing deal between TikTok, Oracle, and Walmart ~tech social media Article 1915 words 4 votes