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• A partial car substitute? Trek’s new cargo bike, reviewed (Arstechnica)
  A pricey but feature-rich offering from Trek had me pedaling for my groceries.
• Georgia Tech scientists figured out how maggots can eat so much, so fast (Arstechnica)
  A video shows 10,000 maggots consuming a 16-inch pizza in just two hours.
• T-Mobile apparently lied to government to get Sprint merger approval, ruling says (Arstechnica)
  T-Mobile ordered to prove it didn't lie to Calif.
• The Porsche Taycan—every bit as good as a $200,000 Porsche should be (Arstechnica)
  Forget Model S comparisons; this car is an electric 928 for the 21st century.
• The billion-dollar question: How does the Clipper mission get to Europa? (Arstechnica)
  “I want to make sure the SLS Block 1 is the rocket you need, and it’s on time.”...
• Math may have caught up with Google’s quantum-supremacy claims (Arstechnica)
  But, given the rapidly evolving quantum computing landscape, that may not matter.
• Trump sues Twitter and Facebook for banning him, claims “trillions” in damages (Arstechnica)
  Trump's "free speech" case is likely doomed by First Amendment and Section 230.
• New IPCC report shows land use is part of solution to climate change (Arstechnica)
  Land use is a big problem that could be a big solution.
• RIAA backtracks after embarrassing P2P defendant (Arstechnica)
  When the RIAA filed a file-sharing lawsuit against a sergeant in the US Army earlier this year, it included the customary exhibits with scr…
• The Volvo C40 Recharge is a stylish new variant of the Swedish EV (Arstechnica)
  50 percent of all new Volvos will be electric by 2025, 100 percent by 2030.
• After a decade of League of Legends, Riot to expand with new games (Arstechnica)
  Shooting, fighting, cards, an action-RPG, and an animated cartoon are in the mix.
• Apple unveils OS X 10.9, “Mavericks” (Arstechnica)
  Apple today unveiled OS X 10.9 at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), showing off the first major revision of the Mac’s operating s…
• Hidden Figures is the perfect space race movie (Arstechnica)
  A must-see film about using math to overcome adversity and send humans into orbit...
• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now free on iOS, Android—and dang, it’s solid (Arstechnica)
  We break down our first session with the Western version to explain why we’ll come back.
• Xbox Series S outed by next-gen controller leak—and it’s legit [Updated] (Arstechnica)
  New controller—and its descriptive box—announced the news before Microsoft could.
• Apple gives third-party repair shops more access to authorized parts (Arstechnica)
  The program provides parts and resources for out-of-warranty iPhones.
• Windows DNS exploit: from bad to worse (Arstechnica)
  Microsoft's DNS exploit can now attack systems via port 445.
• Pacific Northwest heatwave “virtually impossible” without climate change (Arstechnica)
  Rapid analysis shows it would be hard to do this in a cooler world.
• Intel enters the laptop discrete GPU market with Xe Max (Arstechnica)
  The new part is a content-creation tool, not a gaming accelerator.
• Intel’s run at the GPU market begins with Tiger Lake onboard graphics (Arstechnica)
  Xe LP graphics in Tiger Lake laptops are only the first part of the story.
• Teardown reveals how much capacity Apple’s $99 MagSafe Battery Pack has (Arstechnica)
  The video also identifies various other internal components.
• Streaming service Crunchyroll raises prices weeks after killing its free tier (Arstechnica)
  Sony has made streaming anime pricier since buying Crunchyroll.
• How strong is Nintendo’s legal case against Switch-emulator Yuzu? (Arstechnica)
  Nintendo is "basically taking the position that emulation itself is unlawful."
• After hackers hit an Iowa company, cars around the country failed to start (Arstechnica)
  If you don't calibrate your interlock in time, your vehicle is dead.
• Health officials rail against Pfizer’s push for COVID boosters—for many reasons (Arstechnica)
  What part of 'this is a global crisis' are we not getting?"
• AMD is returning to budget CPUs with $99-and-up Ryzen 4000 and 5000 chips (Arstechnica)
  New CPUs (and one APU) use Zen 2 and Zen 3 to plug the gap in AMD's lineup.
• Nude women streamed to office TV derail Oklahoma Board of Education meeting (Arstechnica)
  According to US News and World Report, the state of Oklahoma ranks 48 th in the United States for its pre-K to 12 th grade education system.
• Old Steve Jobs email finally confirms Apple was working on an “iPhone nano” (Arstechnica)
  The name appeared in an email about planning Apple's 2011 product strategy.
• Massive mine truck and a Baja off-road racer both find use for fuel cells (Arstechnica)
  At 231 tons, the mining truck may be the heaviest hydrogen EV in the world.
• Mac OS X and Safari market share up again (Arstechnica)
  If you feel the need to get your two-minute hate on over a post using data from Net Applications, let the screaming commence.
• Can you see me now? Dell's latest 20" monitor features webcam, microphone (Arstechnica)
  With all of the new displays recently in the 22"-24" range, it's going to take a little extra for a 20" to stand out from the pack.
• Rumor: Apple and Mercedes to pair up on in-car system (Arstechnica)
  Will Apple soon make a foray into the automobile industry?
• Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates (Arstechnica)
  Five services started charging more in January.
• Microsoft lawyer defends "Windows Vista Capable" branding (Arstechnica)
  Microsoft has found itself in hot water recently with its "Windows Vista Capable" branding.
• iPadOS 14.7 and macOS Big Sur 11.5 come with plenty of bug fixes and security updates (Arstechnica)
  It's unusual for iPadOS to come after iOS, but it's here.
• FTC appeal in Microsoft/Activision case shows US regulator isn’t giving up yet (Arstechnica)
  But stopping the deal from moving forward still looks like an uphill battle.
• This 3D-printed soft robotic hand beat the first level of Super Mario Bros. (Arstechnica)
  The hand has integrated fluidic transistors, so it only requires one pressure input.
• New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone (Arstechnica)
  China cable-cutter demo coincides with more sabotage of subsea Internet cables.
• 3D printing for all: Inside Chicago library’s new “pop-up maker lab” (Arstechnica)
  3D printers, laser cutters, and milling machines are now open to the public.
• Seagate spins out new hybrid hard drives: meet the Momentus 5400 PSD (Arstechnica)
  Sick of the boot-times on your Vista laptop, but don't have the dough for solid-state storage?
• AMD is making laptop CPU model numbers simultaneously less and more confusing (Arstechnica)
  Numbers will accommodate a range of new CPUs that sometimes use older Zen cores.
• Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia's military (Arstechnica)
  End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
• Beautiful Katamari may be 360 exclusive, clouds gather for Sony's third-party support (Arstechnica)
  Watching the course of the Play Station 3's life has been interesting. Things are getting much better for the system in of media playback,…
• Nokia's 8GB N95 ships globally today, packed with full-length Spiderman film (Arstechnica)
  Today Nokia announced that its N95 8 GB phone, first revealed in August at the Nokia:Go Play conference, would begin shipping globally.
• Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster (Arstechnica)
  Stanford researchers analyzed 305 million texts, revealing AI-writing trends.
• Apple Watch Ultra teardown suggests new—but trickier—repair angles (Arstechnica)
  Rear access to the Watch Ultra isn't nearly as useful as it was on the iPhone 14.
• The Roomba j7+ learns to mop with a dramatic swing-arm setup (Arstechnica)
  iRobot's wild mop design can move from the top of the robot to the bottom.
• Lame-O Gadget: a chat device that uses WiFi (Arstechnica)
  Looking for a way to stay in touch with AOL, Yahoo, or MSN buddies over a 802.11 b/g signal without having to jump on your computer?
• AMD clarifies power usage limits of its next-gen AM5 CPUs (and why that’s important) (Arstechnica)
  AM5 socket's peak and sustained power limits have big performance implications.
• Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA in new round of military launch contracts (Arstechnica)
  Lane 1 serves our commercial-like missions that can accept more risk."