TV monitoring service is fair use, judge rules
Fox News sued TVEyes, which records television 24/7/365—but it's fair use.
Top Post: US gov’t threatened Yahoo with $250K daily fine if it didn’t use PRISM
In-Depth Reports
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Predatory dinosaur was larger than T. rex, went for swims
Skeleton of a semi-aquatic predator completes a story interrupted by bombs in WWII.
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Got bit, fever hit: The Walking Dead pinball shambles into game rooms
Stern gives fans what they want and doesn't hold back on the gore.
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Lessons learned from Microsoft’s pioneering—and standalone—smartwatches
In the mid-2000s, a generation of SPOT smartwatches came... and went.
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Researchers search for genes behind intelligence, find almost nothing
Three possible genes, all with minuscule effects on brain power.
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Smartwatch Wars: The Apple Watch versus Android Wear, in screenshots
Apple makes a more complex, all-black UI, while Google goes airy and image-heavy.
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Are the FBI and “weev” both hackers?
FBI's conduct to find Silk Road servers was similar to "weev's" criminal hacking.
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Sublime simplicity: The transcendent beauty of Desert Golfing
Minimalist mobile game is an addictive, unbroken string of "one more hole"s.
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A week of celeb nudes could pay for a month of reddit’s servers, says mod
r/TheFappening was shut down, but after it was allowed to linger and earn for a week.
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How Netflix, reddit—and even Comcast—pledged support for net neutrality today
"Internet slowdown" protest of fast lanes begins, and Big Cable pleads its case.
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Researchers create a Maxwell’s demon with a single electron
Show that a bit of information has a thermodynamic cost.
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Armchair merchant sailors, your drone ship may pull in soon
MUNIN Project seeks to set robotic cargo ships loose on the oceans.
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Outtakes from Tuesday’s Apple event: A day in pictures
We check out the stuff that happened before and after Tim Cook's speech.
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Destiny first-look: It’s a small universe after all
Our day-one take on Bungie's most hyped shooter ever. At least the servers work!
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Not quite hands-on with the Apple Watch, and the questions it doesn’t answer
The most important stuff about Apple's newest product remains a mystery.
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Chat logs show how 4chan users created #GamerGate controversy
"I think all the sleeper cells are hard at work."
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What Sega’s Dreamcast launch keynote would have looked like, 15 years ago
Take a look back at our "live" coverage of Sega's big launch event on 9/9/99
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Hands-on with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple’s first crack at big phones
The phones look and feel nice, but we're still concerned about one-handed use.
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Zircon grains shed new light on Mars’ watery past
“When you find a zircon, it’s like finding a watch."
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Companies that sell network equipment to ISPs don’t want net neutrality
IBM, Cisco, Intel, and Sandvine ask US not to regulate broadband as a utility.
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Ask Ars: When should I plan to upgrade my iPhone?
How quickly should you trade your old hand-computer in for a new one?
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Gallery: the Apple Watch
Two watch faces, four band styles, apps, and taps! See what time it is.
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Apple reveals long-rumored Apple Watch
Square wearable bucks round predictions, uses "digital crown" for interactivity.
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Apple to release iOS 8 on September 17
New OS brings health-tracker, Extensions, and other improvements.
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Apple announces iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus
Bigger iPhones with up to 128GB of storage will be released on September 19.
Feature Story
iPwned: How easy is it to mine Apple services, devices for data?
High-end tools, simple hacks can still make iPhone data less private than we'd like.
On The Radar
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Make a bid
City of Alamogordo votes to auction off 800 Atari cartridges
Games will be auctioned off on eBay and the city's own website in coming weeks.
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fiscal pressure
US gov’t threatened Yahoo with $250K daily fine if it didn’t use PRISM
Yahoo fought against helping with warrantless surveillance in 2007 but lost.
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Under construction
Leaked Windows 9 screenshots show a work still in progress
Internet Explorer 12 is claimed to feature a new Chrome-like look.
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Now if only we still made phone calls
Google Hangouts gets a huge update, including Google Voice integration
There's also a brand new Android app and VoIP calling.
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See no evil?
Judge won’t release surveillance video of courthouse cop killing defendant
Judge says security risks far outweigh tape's public value.
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aw snap
Snapdragon 210 brings LTE to entry-level phones, but not 64-bit
Snapdragon 208 will also serve as a cheaper 3G-only option.
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Slow ride
BitTorrent to ISPs: Pay us and our users to stay in the “slow lane”
Instead of paid "fast lanes," manage congestion with incentives to limit use.
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the merging is complete
Chrome OS can now run Android apps, no porting required
"App Runtime for Chrome (Beta)" is an entire Android stack built in Native Client.
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Write Once Debug Everywhere
Debug Chrome, Safari apps from Firefox with new add-on
Mozilla lets you use Firefox as your IDE even when you're deploying to other browsers.
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Still no Clu Clu Land guy
Japanese streamers leak early Smash Bros. footage
Online broadcasts show previously rumored characters in action.
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double espresso
Caffeine is so essential that the ability to produce it evolved twice
Coffee has lots of genes for making caffeine and other flavorful chemicals.
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Release the hounds
Netflix “Chaos Commander” hiring “Chaos Engineers” to attack network
Chaos Engineering squad helps Netflix prepare for failure.
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More better schooling
Versal tries to bust open e-learning with open platform for interactive ed.
New courseware APIs allow developers, educators to roll their own “gadgets."
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What a big phone you have
A panoramic visual guide to plus-sized iPhones and other smart handsets
iPhones join the "big" leagues, but Android and Windows Phone were here first.
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The breach that never happened
Google: No compromise, likely massive phishing database
Usernames and passwords for millions of Google accounts leaked? Company says no.
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Staff Blog
Video: A look at Apple’s new hardware products, in motion
Our time with Apple's new products was short, but it was enough for a decent design demo.
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u2 for you, too
U2’s new album is showing up on your iPhone whether you want it or not
Here's how to hide it if you don't want it showing up in your shuffle mix.
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OneDrive to rule them all
OneDrive finally gets file sharing as easy as Dropbox
File syncing limit has been lifted to 10GB.
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Breaking Google's silence
Google changes stance on net neutrality four years after Verizon deal
Google, which helped kill net neutrality for wireless, has rejoined the debate.
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Cold Storage
Western Digital readies first 10TB hard drive, ships new 8TB drive
It pushes drive density using shingled magnetic recording, pressurized helium.
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watch your battery
Apple Watch will last “about a day” on a charge, be water-resistant
Apple is attempting to improve its battery life figure before launch.
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bargain basement
Apple lowers prices on iCloud Drive, lets you buy a terabyte of storage
The company's storage is still more expensive than other options.
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more chips, more codenames
Intel demos next-next-gen “Skylake” processors, coming in late 2015
"Tock" on Intel's roadmap will bring a new architecture to the 14nm process.
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Beats to the punch
Philips debuts headphones that connect via Apple’s Lightning port
Fidelio M2L cans are first to eschew 1/8” audio jack on new Apple devices, company says.
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Microsoft sees micro-sales in Japan
Japan still doesn’t care about Xbox
Xbox One's historically weak Japanese debut sees under 24,000 sales in four days.
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"Watch" Out For This Game
Apple Watch’s first announced game is… an arm wrestling monitor?
Tiny touchscreen means non-traditional games are likely to dominate the device.
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Don’t step on a crack
A big chunk of the Sierra Nevada caught fracturing on video
You’d watch paint dry if it did this every once in a while.
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Hold the rice
Ray Rice being removed from Madden NFL 15 as well
Suspended ex-Raven removed from game after domestic abuse video surfaces.
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Catch-22
Russia moves ISS astronaut training to newly annexed Crimea
Training base could put the US in a difficult position.
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Indie dev going corporate
Report: Microsoft to buy Minecraft developer Mojang for $2 billion
Wall Street Journal claims that the sale could be finalized this week.
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appealing solution
Microsoft agrees to contempt order so e-mail privacy case can be appealed
The contempt order doesn't include any sanctions, but those could be sought later.
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SSD-lightful
Tuesday Dealmaster: A few hard (drive) bargains
4K sets, Microsoft Office, and powerful laptops round out today's list of deals.
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Feature Story (3 pages)
Review: In its second generation, the Moto X becomes a true flagship
We miss the smaller size, but everything about this $499 phone feels high-end.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
Moto 360 review—Beautiful outside, ugly inside
Motorola creates an iconic design, but pairs it with an ancient, power-hungry SoC.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
Infamous “podcast patent” heads to trial
Personal Audio LLC has sued Apple, SiriusXM, and podcasters. CBS is up next.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
Scientific consensus has gotten a bad reputation—and it doesn’t deserve it
It's used by both sides in the climate debates, but consensus is part of a process.
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