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• Red dust has completely covered NASA’s seismic spacecraft on Mars (Arstechnica)
  InSight lived up to its name, providing deep insights about the Martian interior.
• Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs (Arstechnica)
  Musk completes $44B purchase, fires CEO Parag Agrawal and others.
• Galaxy S8 face recognition already defeated with a simple picture (Arstechnica)
  Face unlock feature once again defeated with anything resembling owner's face.
• Cubed wombat poop, why your left nut runs hot, among Ig Nobel winners (Arstechnica)
  Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."
• FCC finally orders ISPs to say exactly where they offer broadband (Arstechnica)
  ISPs will have to submit geospatial maps of broadband service areas.
• Samsung says it will stop loading its $1,000 smartphones with ads (Arstechnica)
  Samsung typically shows ads in Bixby, the weather app, Samsung Pay, and more.
• YouTube’s TikTok clone, “YouTube Shorts,” hits beta in the US (Arstechnica)
  US users can now upload and view one-minute videos in a swipe interface.
• Intel’s foundry roadmap lays out the post-nanometer “Angstrom” era (Arstechnica)
  Could the "Intel 20A" process node (that's 20 Angstroms) rival TSMC and Samsung?
• Want to offset your carbon footprint? Here’s what you need to know (Arstechnica)
  Don’t just count on planted trees to offset your next flight.
• Google settles federal gender and race discrimination charges for $3.8M (Arstechnica)
  About 5,500 workers will receive a few hundred dollars each from the deal.
• 2021’s World Car of the Year goes to the electric Volkswagen ID.4 (Arstechnica)
  Plus, the adorable Honda E wins World Urban Car.
• Microsoft’s Surface Duo falls even lower, now almost $1000 off (Arstechnica)
  71 percent off is a sad ending for Microsoft's first self-branded Android phone.
• Google’s Fuchsia OS will soon roll out to all first-gen Nest Hubs (Arstechnica)
  Fuchsia is out of the Nest Hub preview program.
• Sony joins the classic-console fray with $99 PlayStation Classic on Dec. 3 (Arstechnica)
  First five games confirmed, including Final Fantasy VII, Tekken 3.
• NASA awards lunar lander contracts to Blue Origin, Dynetics—and Starship (Arstechnica)
  “Between the three contractors, I think NASA has everything it needs to be successful.”. Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews…
• The physics behind how fire ants band together into robust floating “rafts” (Arstechnica)
  Fire ants respond to shearing forces by minimizing the surface area of their rafts.
• In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move? (Arstechnica)
  We have to draw a line between open source and the right to make money with open source."
• Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows (Arstechnica)
  The right to repair battle trudges on despite a record amount of legislative proposals.
• PS4 gamepads won’t work for PS5 games, Sony says (Arstechnica)
  Contrast with Microsoft's plan to bring Xbox One controllers forward for Series X.
• Win hardware, collectibles, and more in the 2025 Ars Technica Charity Drive (Arstechnica)
  Help yourself to prizes by helping us raise money for good causes.
• Proposed bill that would regulate NSF research funding faces backlash (Arstechnica)
  Scientists not amused, bill's backers appear confused.
• Mad God: What happens when the best practical VFX artist, ever, writes a film? (Arstechnica)
  Phil Tippett's love letter to practical effects and monster creation is be-a-u-tiful.
• Strawberry Mansion: A great sci-fi premise with trippy, arthouse execution (Arstechnica)
  In this film, society can track dreams, so of course someone's out to monetize 'em.
• DirectX 12 Ultimate brings Xbox Series X features to PC gaming (Arstechnica)
  DX12U will bring DirectX Raytracing, Mesh Shaders, and more to Windows PCs.
• NVIDIA exec to PC makers: Pimping overpriced gaming PCs hurts (Arstechnica)
  Roy Taylor, VP of content relations for NVIDIA, says that some gaming publishers feel that way, particularly when DirectX 10 is involved.
• Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022 (Arstechnica)
  Alchemist" will be Intel's first serious dedicated gaming GPU.
• BMW has a new all-electric model coming in 2020—the iX3 (Arstechnica)
  Based on the current X3 crossover, it uses BMW's 5th-gen electric powertrain.
• MPAA to FCC: Net neutrality could kill a cornucopia of content (monitoring) (Arstechnica)
  We pointed out yesterday that the FCC's Notice of Inquiry regarding network neutrality has attracted nearly 27,000 comments, most from indi…
• New hack runs homebrew code from DVD-R on unmodified PlayStation 2 (Arstechnica)
  Exploit found in DVD player software can also load copies of full PS2 games.
• 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.”. Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, a…
• 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.