Musician-turned-rogue publisher hit with DMCA claims over Sony emails
Twitter removes data in only two out of 20 tweets.
Top Post: Android 2.3 Gingerbread—Four years later, the OS just won’t die
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Got a parking ticket in NYC? City looking at Apple Pay, Bitcoin as ways to pay
New York City has submitted a Request for Information to potentially go mobile.
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Remains of long-dead viruses in our genomes aid our immune response
Let B cells respond to pathogens without any help.
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Android 2.3 Gingerbread—Four years later, the OS just won’t die
Years of support means the OS looks very different today than it did in 2010.
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Comcast just upped its cable modem rental fee from $8 to $10 per month
"Confirmed 25% increase effective 12/20/2014. F—k them."
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The unusual suspects: Ex-employees, Lizard Squad may have aided Sony hack
Analysts point to at least six insiders; DDoSers say they gave passwords to GoP.
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City lights viewed from space show cultural, tech differences
East-West divide persists in Berlin, US lighting similar to East Berlin's.
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NSA has VPNs in Vulcan death grip—no, really, that’s what they call it
VPN traffic repositories used to find keys, crack encryption of target traffic.
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Newly published NSA documents show agency could grab all Skype traffic
“Sustained Skype collection” of voice, video, and messages started in 2011.
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Reminder: Enter Ars’ 2014 Charity Drive and help a good cause, too [Updated]
Join 250+ readers that have donated over $11,000 so far this year.
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Politician’s fingerprint reproduced using photos of her hands
At a Chaos Computer Club convention, hacker Starbug suggests notable people wear gloves.
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Researchers: We can detect life on other worlds through its vibrations
A sensitive instrument vibrates with the metabolic activity of life itself.
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Pope to push for action on climate change
Upcoming encyclical will urge Catholics to act on "moral and scientific grounds."
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HP EliteBook 1020 review: A business Ultrabook you’ll want to bring home
Core M needs speed and the trackpad is weird, but there's a lot to like here.
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Finding gene activity differences in identical twins
Researchers identify a few cases where twins' genes behave differently.
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When the doctor’s away, the patient is more likely to survive
Deaths due to heart problems drop during major cardiology gatherings.
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Wheel-to-wheel racing: Ars compares Xbox One steering wheels
Are the Xbox One racing wheels any good?
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Meet our office-mates: The pets of Ars Technica
You've seen our offices, now meet the animals that make working at home more fun.
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Rockstar litigation, a high-water mark in patent wastefulness, is over
Apple and Microsoft spent $4.5 billion on a patent attack, sold it at a loss.
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Minneapolis residents to get 10-gigabit fiber, for $400 per month
Single gigabit access is already available for $65 per month.
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NASA’s MAVEN charts a disappearing Martian atmosphere
Finds streams of solar wind particles that penetrate deep into the atmosphere.
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What Would Twitter Do? Musician’s tweets of Sony e-mails lead to threats
"I don't know what the line is," says musician-turned-publisher Val Broeksmit.
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Immune cells tweak the body’s metabolism to help control obesity
The immune cells convert adipose tissue to a fat-burning form.
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Battle of the Five Armies is a soulless end to the flawed Hobbit trilogy
Ars' resident Tolkien nerd on Peter Jackson's problematic final chapter.
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Warrant for raid on Kim Dotcom legal, New Zealand Supreme Court rules
Dotcom and his compatriots will have to pay $27,000 to Attorney General
Feature Story
Google Tracker 2015: Everything we know Google is working on for the new year
2014 included major expansions in home automation and medicine, so what's next?
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On The Radar
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don't shaft us here
Google to FCC: If you go with Title II, don’t forget our favorite part
Regulating ISPs means Google Fiber should get access to utility poles.
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The 128GB iPhone says "hi"
Moto X Pure Edition now available in 64GB version for $599.99
The unlocked version of the Moto X gets an exclusive storage tier.
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Fair winds to you sir
North Korean defector to airdrop DVD, USB copies of The Interview
DPRK's "leadership will crumble if the idolization of leader Kim breaks down."
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Take your sexts elsewhere
Snapchat’s privacy practices to be monitored for the next 20 years
FTC: No more saying that your secret sexy snaps can't be saved.
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A zombie brand! RUN!
HP sells Palm trademarks; brand could be resurrected with new smartphones
It looks like Palm will rise from the dead as a Chinese smartphone brand.
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Get moar sekurity
US banks trace credit fraud to Chick-fil-A locales in possible data breach
One financial institution says it had nearly 9,000 customer cards involved.
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Watch out
Feds: Sony hackers’ next target will be an unnamed news organization
In a bulletin, FBI and DHS add "other such organizations" may be targeted, too.
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No DiskWarrior on Mars
NASA to try to reconfigure a flash drive—on Mars
Will try to disable one of the Opportunity rover's memory banks.
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Ars Editor’s Picks The web worth reading.
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Be your own santa
Dealmaster: Get an HP Pavilion 17z laptop for just $434.99
Save $95 on the 17-inch laptop, with tons of configuration options!
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That's not Santa
WikiLeaks claims employee’s Google mail, metadata seized by US government [Updated]
Google alerted organization on Christmas Eve of served warrant.
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Soon to be on sale for -$50
Two-month long Xbox One sale ending, price will jump back to $400
The $50 discount for the holidays expires on January 3.
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legislators vs. reality
West Virginia school board alters climate change education standards
Because “West Virginia coal... has been taking on unfair negativity.”
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THIS IS...NAW, TOO EASY
Report: Microsoft’s browser for Windows 10 won’t be Internet Explorer
Instead, new Chrome-like browser codenamed "Spartan" will ship alongside IE11.
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parasite
South Korean operator finds worm in its nuclear plant control systems
Apparently unrelated to ongoing attacks on its business systems.
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they are the 51%
If you got a new smartphone for Christmas, it was probably an iPhone
Worldwide device activation data shows that it was happy holidays for Cupertino.
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approaching inbox one million
E-mail matters, Twitter doesn’t, to American workers
And a plurality of firms now have rules about what employees can say online.
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Return to sender
Apple offers EU customers 14-day money-back returns on e-purchases
“No questions asked” digital refunds for iTunes, iBooks, and apps (but not in US).
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wave and pay across the pond
UK banks wary of Apple Pay data collection, but early 2015 launch possible
The Telegraph says expansion of the service is coming to Europe and beyond.
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"great leader" of internet movies
The Interview earns a stunning $15M from online sales
Sony got close to the $20 million weekend it was aiming for.
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google be gone
The Great Firewall keeps growing, as China blocks all Gmail access
Chinese web-blocking has grown significantly in 2014.
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Lounging around
FBI claimed to be investigating Xbox Live, PlayStation Network DDoS perps
But FBI's reach may be limited, with Lizard Squad members based around the world.
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oh elise it doesn't matter what you do
Tesla Roadster gets a range increase to a truly crazy 400 miles maximum
Precursor to the Model S can now go a lot farther on a charge.
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moar bits is better
The first device with a Snapdragon 810 is… the Galaxy Note 4?!
The Note 4 will be one of the first to get the 64-bit SoC.
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I'll allow it
Bankruptcy judge: Aereo can sell its TV stream tech—with some caveats
Broadcasters can attend the auction, oppose any sales, and examine customer records.
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(Not quite a) Pay day
Possible copyright suit could create a smaller headache for The Interview
Sony was negotiating with Yoon Mi-rae, but it allegedly used song without permission.
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'Cause you had a bad year
Facebook apologizes for morbid results with its “Year in Review” nag
Complaining user was auto-served a photo of a recently deceased loved one.
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Ugh.
North Korea suffers another Internet outage, hurls racial slur at Pres. Obama
Latest drama follows The Interview's Christmas opening—which earned $1 million.
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Pump the brakes
California DMV will miss its deadline for driverless car regulations
State Senate initially wanted rules for public use by January 1.
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Busy? We have some reports
On Christmas Eve, NSA quietly releases 12 years worth of internal reports
Less law-abusing, more human error—like sensitive info sent to the wrong printer.
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This is your brain on a phone
Our brains are being “continuously reshaped” by smartphone use
Our thumbs are developing a special relationship with our brains.
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Bah humbug
Grinches steal Christmas for Xbox Live, PlayStation Network users
Hacker group knocks gaming networks offline with DDoS attack.
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Face-booked
Suit over Facebook’s practice of scanning users’ messages to go forward
Company's TOS "does not establish that users consented" to the practice, court rules.
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Looking back at the best games of the 2010s (so far)
Ars editors look back at their favorites from the last half-decade of gaming.
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The 20 best games of 2014, as chosen by the Ars brain trust
From polished sequels to surprising new franchises, 2014 was a weird year in gaming.
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The Ars System Guide’s Gaming Boxes: December 2014
A gamer's needs are different from the normal system builder—time for a new guide.
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The state of smartphones in 2014: Ars Technica’s Ultimate Guide
All the phones you need to know about, and everything you need to know about them.
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