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• Rumored NV25 Specs (arstechnica.com)
  Late, but better late than never. nV News is reporting rumored NV25 specs, which is the next line of NVidia cards coming out. Gamers want t…
• Extrasolar planetary atmosphere detected (arstechnica.com)
  Once the laughingstock of astronomy, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) continues with its long lines of discoveries and observations. Today…
• (Holiday) Updated System Guide (arstechnica.com)
  So, here it is getting into the holiday seasons, and you've got gift dilemmas. Maybe you have a fellow geek who needs some new toys. Or, ma…
• W32/Badtrans@mm strikes again (arstechnica.com)
  A W32/Badtrans@mm variant (Badtrans.b) is on the loose that stirring up even more fun in inboxes around the planet. Discovered on Saturday.…
• Common Picture Exchange Environment: useful or useless? (arstechnica.com)
  Venkatna send me word of a standard that's being proposed that would allow users to easily send digital images around the world using an AT…
• Intel stands in both lanes when it comes to semi (arstechnica.com)
  Despite their numerous volleys against Silicon-on-Insulator proponents (including IBM and AMD), Intel has announced that they too are worki…
• Game.Ars, not quite avenged, but back (arstechnica.com)
  After an extreme delay that warrants a good clubbing over the head by Carl for Ator, Hannibal, and myself, Game.Ars is here. Perhaps you're…
• Search is back online (arstechnica.com)
  The Search is now back on line, and secure once again. For those who didn't know, the search engine we use for the main Ars Technica site (…
• California partnered with Anthropic to make Claude available to all state agencies and local (theverge.com)
  They will get a 50% discount on access to Claude, as part of a “first-of-its-kind collaboration” that also includes complimentary workforce…
• A new forum, and a forum change (arstechnica.com)
  As the night rolls on, I'm pleased to announce the new Ars Programmer's Symposium! A dedicated programming forum has been at the top of Ars…
• Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (arstechnica.com)
  First up, we've got Carl's review of Pool of Radiance, and before you pass it on up assuming that he utterly slams the game (I mean, he did…
• Search is down - updates are a' comin' (arstechnica.com)
  Greetings y'all. I feel like I'm basically back from the dead. Last weekend, Hannibal and I headed out west to Denver for an academic confe…
• Douglas Adams: the Final Volume (arstechnica.com)
  According to CNN, the latest (and last) volume of Douglas Adams' immensely popular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been edited togethe…
• Patent reform in the works? (arstechnica.com)
  Newsbytes reports the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice will hold hearings in December taking a look at the increasing…
• 2001 Leonids Report: Spectacular to disappointing (arstechnica.com)
  Scientists predicted that this years Leonid meteor showers would be "very impressive", but did they live up to the hype? Judging from this…
• Cancer killing with atomic nanogenerators (arstechnica.com)
  Treatment of cancer usually consists of a mixture of surgery, drugs and radiation therapy. Surgery may leave parts of a tumor, while drugs…
• Intel to dump Rambus by 2003? (arstechnica.com)
  On Wednesday The Register ran a story that Japanese website PC Watch reported Intel has committed to using DDR-II SDRAM for their P4-Spring…
• Senate extends internet tax moratorium (arstechnica.com)
  In a reversal of last month's vote, the Senate has decided to extend the ban on internet taxes until November 1, 2003. There's no explicit…
• Red Cross Reversal (arstechnica.com)
  In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, the American Red Cross has collected over $543 million in donations, but in the two…
• Sonicblue RioVolt SP100 (arstechnica.com)
  MP3s have always found themselves compared to CDs. Phrases like "cd quality" get bandied about a lot, and the debate over what that particu…
• Linux posts a win with IBM, MS running scared? (arstechnica.com)
  IBM announced the launch of server clusters using a combination of Linux and IBM software for system management. While this news may not be…
• Deception is denial of truth (arstechnica.com)
  Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered tell tale signs when someone is lying. The New Scientist reports subjects w…
• Announcing comparison shopping at Ars (arstechnica.com)
  Ars Technica has teamed up with PriceGrabber to bring you our own comparison shopping service. Integrated into Ars, the Ars PriceGrabbing E…
• It's official: BeOS sold to Palm (arstechnica.com)
  Yesterday Be Inc. shareholders approved the sale of most of Be's intellectual assets to Palm Inc. We reported on the prospects of the sale…
• API Networks launches switch; HyperTransport moves closer (arstechnica.com)
  As CPU processing power increases, the need for more efficient, faster bus technologies becomes more and more apparent. API Networks has re…
• ReplayTV lawsuit, examined (arstechnica.com)
  I hope I don't drive y'all crazy with my TiVo/ReplayTV coverage, but I'm terribly fascinated with these developments and what they mean for…
• Poll: in-line review pane - stay or go? (arstechnica.com)
  If you've used the forum, you've no doubt noticed that when you reply to a topic, the entire 1st page of that topic is included in an ifram…
• Tidbits from COMDEX, day 1 (arstechnica.com)
  This year Ars isn't officially represented at COMDEX, but we've still got our ears to the ground listening for the good stuff. For the most…
• Game.Ars holiday edition (arstechnica.com)
  Yep, here in the US we've got a three day holiday. I'm sure you can guess what Carl has been doing with his time. Fortunately he did take a…
• All's not well with the family, capice? (arstechnica.com)
  The proposed HP-Compaq merger, aka "The Merger that makes no freaking sense," is in trouble. It seems that the Hewlett clan, and by that I…
• AMD's future on the server scene (arstechnica.com)
  CNet is carrying a story relating to AMD's plans for 2002. Although AMD is destined to see the "numerical" marketing differentiation betwee…
• Superconductivity and nanowires don't mix (arstechnica.com)
  According to a paper by C. N. Lau et al in the November 19, 2001 issue of Physical Review Letters (paper online here), some interesting thi…
• Single-molecule transistor (arstechnica.com)
  A bunch of you sent this in, but as far as I can tell, Martin Rogers was the first. Bell Labs scientists have managed to get a single molec…
• The P4 & G4e: an Architectural Comparison - The Execution Core (arstechnica.com)
  Hannibal's previous article comparing the Pentium 4 to the MPC7450 (a.k.a. the G4e a.k.a. the G4+) gave a general overview of each processo…
• Math Geeks of the World, Rejoice! (arstechnica.com)
  Thanks to /., I found out that Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics (or MathWorld to its friends), a great online mathematics encyclopedia…
• The state of Transmeta (arstechnica.com)
  CNET is currently running a story that sums up the conventional wisdom in the PC world about Transmeta's prospects, which is that despite a…
• Game.Ars giveaway edition (arstechnica.com)
  Carl is back with another issue of Game.Ars. This week's installment is packed with goodies, like news of a possible Half Life movie, some…
• Apple iTunes2 installer carries serious flaw (arstechnica.com)
  Dan Milisic wrote in with the very important heads-up regarding Apple's iTunes2 installer, which apparently can trash data with extreme pre…
• MS deal falls short of being relevant (arstechnica.com)
  While the saga isn't over by any stretch of the imagination, Microsoft and the DOJ have moved one step closer by reaching a tentative deal…
• Cheap and portable text-to-speech (arstechnica.com)
  The EET has the scoop on a smooth new Winbond chip that converts text into either English or Mandarin speech. The chip is designed for low-…
• Silence those cell phones! (arstechnica.com)
  Norway-based ICE (Interference Controlled Environment) International has deployed a system named ICE Cube that can deactivate or silence al…
• ReplayTV sued by networks (arstechnica.com)
  ReplayTV, recently acquired by SonicBlue, has drawn the attention of the major US networks who are claiming that SonicBlue's ReplayTV's 400…
• Linux saves millions... (arstechnica.com)
  of dollars. The recent economic downturn has forced many companies to look for different ways to cut expenses and help out the bottom line.
• November's Leonid Shower: One for the record books (arstechnica.com)
  According to Wired News, The United States is in for the most spectacular meteor shower since 1966. Peter Jenniskens, a research scientist…
• NASA's new frontier: Biology (arstechnica.com)
  Wired reports that NASA is teaming up with Stanford University to increase its knowledge of biology at the molecular level. Working as a te…
• Headache? Have a Dew! (arstechnica.com)
  The NewScientist passes on news that downing a Dew may provide faster relief for a tension headache than ibuprofen. The study showed that 5…
• Announcing the new Ars Emporium (arstechnica.com)
  I cannot help but be continually amazed at the insight, devotion, and interest that some Ars readers take in the health and vitality of Ars…
• Game.Ars just misses the weekend (arstechnica.com)
  Just a tad late on the Game.Ars this week. As usual, Carl offers up a veritable smorgasbord of gaming news tidbits, including a Shattered G…
• Technology at the cost of history? (arstechnica.com)
  With the advent of digital video, cameras and storage media, technology has provided instantaneous feedback concerning the images captured.…
• Video phones and the news (arstechnica.com)
  If you've been watching the coverage of the war in Afghanistan and have wondered what on Earth those "video phones" are that reporters are…