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• 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.”. Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and an…
• 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.
• Rocket Report: NASA ready to hot fire SLS, Roscosmos sues itself? (Arstechnica)
  We are obliged to file a lawsuit in connection with the satellite's failure."
• Jeff Bezos unveils his sweeping vision for humanity’s future in space (Arstechnica)
  It's time to go back to the Moon—this time to stay.”. Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis. It's time to go bac…
• Ars goes back to school: The video games that threatened our college GPA (Arstechnica)
  Lessons learned: A hand-coded D&D Familiar, dorm LAN parties, everything in between.
• Everything we know about Audi’s next electric crossover, the Q4 e-tron (Arstechnica)
  The Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron share a platform with VW's ID.4 crossover.
• Volkswagen’s Electrify America will buy Tesla Powerpacks to manage peak demand (Arstechnica)
  100 sites will get an extra 350 kilowatt-hours to cut charging network's costs.
• Pinterest agrees to $22.5 million settlement in discrimination lawsuit (Arstechnica)
  Settlement is one of the largest ever in this kind of case, Brougher's lawyer said.
• COVID boosters reportedly may start in Sept. Here’s the latest data [Updated] (Arstechnica)
  As delta rages, Americans reportedly advised to get booster 8 mos after vaccination.
• AMD’s “FSR Redstone” upscaling claims to close the gap with Nvidia’s DLSS (Arstechnica)
  Redstone" is a promising mix of old and new ideas, but Nvidia is years ahead.
• Con Kolivas quits, takes parting shots at desktop (Arstechnica)
  Con Kolivas had rather a large following of users that appreciated his work. Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analys…
• New quantum hardware puts the mechanics in quantum mechanics (Arstechnica)
  As a test case, the machine was used to test a model of superconductivity.
• Halo split-screen combat is coming back—and it’s here to stay (Arstechnica)
  Halo team leader says removing split-screen from Halo 5 "eroded trust" with fans.
• 2K breaks gaming’s de facto $60 ceiling, asks $70 for next-gen NBA 2K21 (Arstechnica)
  Inflation has eroded big-budget gaming’s $60 standard for about 15 years now.
• Netflix cancels Travelers, proving that our timeline has been abandoned (Arstechnica)
  Season 3 wrapped up neatly but still left the door open to new stories.
• Microsoft, Atom Computing update their quantum computing progress (Arstechnica)
  Some quantum computing companies we've covered have done recent progress updates.
• WireGuard goes fully Windows-native with experimental WireGuardNT driver (Arstechnica)
  Adventurous users can try the new implementation now by adding a registry key.
• New Bill & Ted: Two ‘80s dudes have no business working this well in 2020 (Arstechnica)
  See the originals first, but Face the Music is fun and hopeful—so, a nice 2020 antidote.
• iFixit says the Playdate is a surprisingly repairable Game Boy throwback (Arstechnica)
  $179 portable takes the same DIY approach to repairs that it does to coding.
• “Baby-making machines”: Chinese tweet on Uighurs not against Twitter rules (Arstechnica)
  Twitter bans "the dehumanization of a group of people" based on ethnicity.
• Diana Prince reunites with her long-lost love in first Wonder Woman 1984 trailer (Arstechnica)
  Nothing good is born from lies, and greatness is not what you think."
• How Google built a 52-terapixel time-lapse portrait of Earth (Arstechnica)
  30-meter-per-pixel video of entire planet.
• Ars Technicast, Episode 26—Summer movie season is here: Engage! (Arstechnica)
  What movies are you anticipating this summer?