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• One of NASA’s greatest mathematicians, Katherine Johnson, has died (Arstechnica)
  Katherine Johnson, a trailblazing mathematician best known for her contributions to NASA’s human spaceflight program and who gained fame la…
• Old services meet new media: a tweeting cabbie's growing business (Arstechnica)
  “Can you pick me up at my place in 15 minutes? Text me when you get here.” No, this isn’t a text message to a friend or a call to a car ser…
• The iX is BMW’s new flagship electric vehicle (Arstechnica)
  The BMW iX should have an EPA-approved range of 300 miles.
• It’s time for more undead shenanigans with What We Do in the Shadows S3 (Arstechnica)
  The series also snagged an early S4 renewal.
• Sony’s brighter A90J OLED TV makes its way to living rooms this month (Arstechnica)
  Like LG's latest, Sony claims higher brightness than we saw in previous OLEDs.
• “Tough to forge” digital driver’s license is... easy to forge (Arstechnica)
  A litany of security flaws allows forgeries that are easy, quick, and cheap.
• Ready or (mostly) not: here come more contactless payment devices (Arstechnica)
  Visa has released its preferred form of contactless payment technology.
• HBO’s Los Espookys will make you want to be a horror technician, too (Arstechnica)
  We're going to need a 3x2 room, a nightgown, a possessed girl… and tons of dry ice.”...
• Samsung foldables lineup is official: $1,799 for the Fold 3, $999 for Flip 3 (Arstechnica)
  Samsung somehow manages to make foldable smartphones water-resistant.
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla hands-on: An incomplete Witcher-ization (Arstechnica)
  Assassin's Creed veers deeper into RPG-like territory.
• This is fine: IBM acquires Red Hat (Arstechnica)
  Deal makes IBM the keeper of the world's largest open source software portfolio.
• Blue Origin’s powerful BE-4 engine is more than four years late—here’s why (Arstechnica)
  This is a success oriented approach, but it could definitely backfire."
• Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy (Arstechnica)
  Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy."
• Google brings Street View history to phones, introduces “Street View Studio” (Arstechnica)
  Street View gets some new features for its 15th birthday.
• Xbox at E3: Halo Infinite leads massive first-party deluge of Xbox, PC games (Arstechnica)
  Microsoft moves on Sony's E3 absence with a smorgasbord of Xbox Game Studios fare.
• Here’s the first of Hyundai’s new 800-volt EVs—the Ioniq 5 (Arstechnica)
  Due this fall, it features clever fast-charging tech and an expansive interior.
• PSA: OS X 10.9 appears to run on any Mac that can run OS X 10.8 (Arstechnica)
  Breaking with recent tradition, Mavericks won't drop support for any older Macs.
• Lair delayed until September (Arstechnica)
  The PS3-exclusive Lair has been pushed back into next month.
• After nearly 20 months, Boeing and Starliner have a shot at redemption (Arstechnica)
  Starliner to attempt second flight test beginning Tuesday afternoon.
• Xbox Series X won’t have next-gen exclusives for a while (Arstechnica)
  All early Series X releases will also be playable on previous Xbox One models.
• Study confirms Egyptians likely used hallucinogens in rituals (Arstechnica)
  Special concoction also contained honey, sesame seeds, pine nuts, licorice, and grapes to make it look like blood.
• FDA officials asked to step down after contentious Alzheimer’s drug approval (Arstechnica)
  Watchdog says it's FDA brass that should leave.
• Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct” (Arstechnica)
  Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
• Cadillac saves its best for last: The 2022 CT4-V Blackwing (Arstechnica)
  Cadillac's Blackwings are its swan song to the gasoline performance-car era.
• BMW finds its mojo again with the $55,400 i4 electric sedan (Arstechnica)
  The car looks good, the specs look good, and the price looks good.
• The White House puts a price on the SLS rocket—and it’s a lot (Arstechnica)
  Again, Congress is urged to allow a commercial launch of the Europa Clipper.
• Apple- and Google-backed smart home standard Matter has been delayed (Arstechnica)
  Matter has a feature-complete specification, but its SDK is coming in 1H 2022.
• A search engine that "listens" to music to help you find new tunes (Arstechnica)
  But for most people, a key aspect of music appreciation lies in the discovery of the new: a previously unknown work or artist that is both…
• The Vast of Night is an alien encounter film like no other (Arstechnica)
  Film festival darling snuck up and attracted Amazon money in 2019, hits Prime this weekend.
• Microsoft announces November launch for Xbox Series X, Halo Infinite delay (Arstechnica)
  High-profile shooter pushed back to 2021.
• NASA sets launch date for Starliner mission to space station (Arstechnica)
  As with all launch dates, some uncertainty remains.
• Always read the fine print? GM Super Cruise only free for three years (Arstechnica)
  It turns out the advanced hands-free driving system requires a subscription.
• The Unix revolution—thank you, Uncle Sam? (Arstechnica)
  Why did the Unix operating system expand so quickly in the 1970s and 1980s?
• Site: Et tu, Caesar? (Arstechnica)
  Another fabled Ars nickname bites the dust.
• Tropical Storm Henri will make landfall in the northeastern United States (Arstechnica)
  After several days of uncertainty and wild swings in forecast models, confidence is increasing in a large tropical system making landfall i…
• Pinterest shareholders sue firm over rampant gender, race discrimination (Arstechnica)
  Suit alleges that toxicity in the company hurts Pinterest’s “nice” brand image.
• Breaking down Sony’s confusing PlayStation Plus subscription relaunch (Arstechnica)
  Say bye to PlayStation Now, hello to PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra, and Premium.
• Highlights doesn’t kid around when it comes to science and tech (Arstechnica)
  “Science is an ongoing, self-correcting process and not a collection of facts.”...
• Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks (Arstechnica)
  The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet itself.
• Quantum computer performs error-resistant operations with logical qubits (Arstechnica)
  Harvard and QuEra get ready for error correction, run operations on 48 logical qubits.
• What we expect (and what we want) from Apple’s WWDC keynote (Arstechnica)
  Take some rumors and throw in some speculation.
• Alzheimer’s drug that failed early tests now dubbed effective, heads to FDA (Arstechnica)
  An analysis in March suggested that testing the drug was futile.
• German chemists identified over 7,700 different chemical formulas in beers (Arstechnica)
  Team combined two mass spectrometry techniques to analyze samples in 10 minutes.
• SpaceX plans Starlink phone service, emergency backup, and low-income access (Arstechnica)
  SpaceX's latest petition to the FCC details some of its Starlink plans.
• Analyst: February iPhone update will bring Spotlight, third-party apps (Arstechnica)
  The i Phone SDK is supposedly coming in February, but will i Phone owners have anything to look forward to before then?
• How neural networks work—and why they’ve become a big business (Arstechnica)
  Neural networks have grown from an academic curiosity to a massive industry.
• Paper leaks showing a quantum computer doing something a supercomputer can’t (Arstechnica)
  Google's system generates quantum statistics that we just can't simulate.
• Senator tries to block Frontier’s FCC funding, citing ISP’s various failures (Arstechnica)
  Senator: Frontier mismanaged previous funds and shouldn’t get new gigabit money.
• Three experts resign as FDA advisers over approval of Alzheimer’s drug (Arstechnica)
  One former adviser accused the FDA of presenting “slanted” questions to committee.
• House waters down e-voting code disclosure rules (Arstechnica)
  On Tuesday, the House Committee on Administration approved Rush Holt's (D-NJ) e-voting reform bill by a 6-3 vote.