California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature ~tech internet Article 941 words 13 votes
US Consumer Product Safety Commission sues Amazon, citing over 400,000 hazardous products sold through its "Fulfilled by Amazon" program ~tech amazon Article 961 words 12 votes
Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment ~tech social media facebook Article 1547 words 16 votes
Playdate, the console with a crank, gets July preorder for $179, game details ~games Article 921 words 16 votes
Amazon devices in the US will automatically join the Amazon Sidewalk mesh network and start sharing internet with neighbors on June 10th, unless opted out ~tech internet privacy security amazon.sidewalk Article 882 words, published May 29 2021 30 votes
Supreme Court reins in definition of crime under controversial hacking law ~tech Article 1725 words 12 votes
Texas’ “failsafe” generators failed, risking weeks-long catastrophe ~enviro energy Article 968 words 7 votes
Nintendo's Game Builder Garage hides powerful programming tools behind a cute interface ~games Article 989 words 11 votes
Florida has passed an unconstitutional law to allow suing and fining social media companies (except ones that also own theme parks) for censoring users or de-platforming politicians ~tech social media Article 1637 words 20 votes
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 World Health Organization 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
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