- + Welcome to the cyber world: The real-world tech behind Alita: Battle Angel—Enlarge / The futuristic cyborg world depicted in Alita: Battle Angel has some promising real-world analogues. (credit: 20th Century Fox) The C...
- + The Samsung Galaxy S10 is coming! Here’s what to expect— On February 20, Samsung is throwing a huge party in San Francisco, where it will take the wraps off its flagship smartphone lineup for 2019. Given t...
- + The replication crisis may also be a theory crisis—Enlarge / A jumbled jigsaw puzzle, AKA the state of theory in the behavioral sciences. (credit: flickr user: giveawayboy) A replication crisis ...
- + Starz‘ Counterpart has been canceled—which is bad, because the show is good—Enlarge / He may not constantly be the central focus of the narrative (as he was in S1), but Howard(s) is still tangled up in all the larger happeni...
- + Private cabins, flying bars, and hundreds of seats—farewell, Airbus A380— In 2005 the first A380 was unveiled at the Airbus factory in Toulouse, France. ...
- + A natural selection: Evolution evolves from board game to digital app—Enlarge Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. ...
- + Behold, the Facebook phishing scam that could dupe even vigilant users—Enlarge (credit: anujraj) Phishers are deploying what appears to be a clever new trick to snag people’s Facebook passwords by presenting convinci...
- + Shell buys Sonnen, Tesla’s competitor in the home battery business—Enlarge / An employee working for the manufacturer of solar batteries, Sonnen GmbH, in the Bavarian village Wildpoldsried, southern Germany, is pict...
- + Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI—Enlarge / This is fine. OpenAI, a non-profit research company investigating "the path to safe artificial intelligence," has developed a machin...
- + Facebook, Google, CDC under pressure to stop anti-vax garbage from spreading—Enlarge (credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) With five measles outbreaks ongoing in the US, lawmakers are questioning both health officials and ...
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- + Signs that China's real-estate bubble will burst and take the economy with it— China's real-estate bubble is the largest in human history, and despite years of warning signs, it has grown and grown, spilling over into the rest o...
- + Shoot your movie now with this filmmaker's master class—High-def cameras are available to anyone and for much less than they were just a decade ago. Even the phones in our pockets can be used to shoot and e...
- + AFL-CIO open letter to game devs: things won't get better until you unionize— In the wake of Blizzard/Activision's announcement of mass layoffs following record profits, Liz Shuler of the AFL-CIO has published an open letter on...
- + Amazon's 2018 profits: $11.2 billion; Amazon's 2018 IRS bill: negative $129 million— Amazon doubled its profits in 2018, to $11.2 billion; the company will receive a $129 million tax rebate for the year. Though Trump denounced Am...
- + Anti-vaxxers use Facebook to target pregnant women with fear and lies—Anti-vaxxers know no shame, Facebook is willing to do anything for an ad dollar, water is wet. Science Alert: Facebook is aggressively being used by...
- + 5 dead and 5 police officers shot in Illinois mass shooting; gunman also dead—5 are dead and five more police officers shot after a gunman opened fire in Aurora, Ill. CBS: The suspect, identified as Gary Martin, opened fired at ...
- + Many hurt, including multiple officers, in Illinois mass shooting—A gunman has been apprehended after a "mass shooting" in Aurora, Ill., reports Chigaco's WGN9 News. Kane County’s SWAT team, the U.S. Marshal’s Task ...
- + Vogue executive quits after "slave-themed photo" posted—Just the other day I remarked that the fashion industry picked the worst possible year to try and make racist imagery cool, even as it's obvious why s...
- + YouTube's algorithms demonitizes piano tutorial site for "Repetitious content"— When you're learning to play a musical instrument, you have to play the same songs and scales over and over again. YouTube's algorithm doesn't seem...
- + The 'Carlton Dance' is not eligible for registration, Fortnite boogies on— Alfonso Ribeiro sure can move, but the Copyright office doesn't see anything registerable about it. This ruling further imperils Ribeiro's claim t...
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- + Vision system for autonomous vehicles watches not just where pedestrians walk, but how—The University of Michigan, well known for its efforts in self-driving car tech, has been working on an improved algorithm for predicting the movem...
- + How to read fiction to build a startup—“The book itself is a curious artefact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often v...
- + ClassPass, Gfycat, StreetEasy hit in latest round of mass site hacks—In just a week, a single seller put close to 750 million records from 24 hacked sites up for sale. Now, the hacker has struck again. The hacker, whose...
- + Investor momentum builds for construction tech—Mary Ann Azevedo Contributor Share on Twitter Mary Ann Azevedo covers startups and tech ...
- + Visa and Mastercard could raise interchange fees—According to a report from the WSJ, Visa and Mastercard are considering raising interchange fees on card transactions in the U.S. Visa and Masterca...
- + Uber sues NYC to contest cap on drivers—Uber filed a lawsuit against New York City, The Verge reported. The company wants to overturn New York City’s rule that caps the number of new ride...
- + Transportation Weekly: Didi woes, how Nuro met Softbank, Amazon’s appetite—Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is the second edition a...
- + Startups Weekly: Is Y Combinator’s latest cohort too big?—Greetings from Chittorgarh, one of my stops on a two-week excursion through Goa and Rajasthan, India. I’ve been a little too busy exploring, photograp...
- + Steve Jurvetson tells all: about his new $200 million fund, his new partner, his new shopping list, and more—Steve Jurvetson is staging a comeback, disclosing today that his new San Francisco-based, early-stage venture firm Future Ventures, has raised $200...
- + Apple acquires talking Barbie voicetech startup PullString—Apple has just bought up the talent it needs to make talking toys a part of Siri, HomePod, and its voice strategy. Apple has reportedly acquired Pu...
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