China’s restriction on rare earth metal export is unlawful, WTO says
Despite environmental concerns, China must open its market to the world.
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In-Depth Reports
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Trolls and hiring practices: Women on fixing the games industry
Longtime designers treat their industry's diversity as a game design challenge.
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New dwarf planet found sneaking through the inner Oort Cloud
A small collection of bodies now orbits where they couldn't possibly have formed.
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Comcast allegedly tells 105Mbps customers not to use their own modems
Old document leads to ill communication.
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Cambrian hunter switched to a plankton diet
Like whale sharks, relatives of Anomalocaris evolved to filter feed.
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Meet Snoopy: The DIY drone that tracks your devices just about anywhere
DIY stalker device uniquely IDs people by tracking radio signals they emit.
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Apple’s working to introduce more diverse emoji—what’s the holdup?
Adding new characters to Unicode, emoji or otherwise, can take years.
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Crows feed cuckoo chicks, get stinky defense against predators
Cuckoos aren't so much parasites as running a protection racket.
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Welcome to the VR social: What to expect from Oculus in the Facebook era
Despite doom-saying, the acquisition could prove beneficial for all involved.
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Wikipedia founder calls alt-medicine practitioners “lunatic charlatans”
Wales to activists who want new rules for Wikipedia: "No, you have to be kidding me."
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Facebook purchases VR headset maker Oculus for $2 billion [Updated]
CEO Zuckerberg sees acquisition as a "long term bet on the future of computing"
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Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire [Updated]
Brendan Eich's Prop 8 donations come to light, and internal response is mixed.
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Supreme Court: Lexmark will have to stand trial over old DMCA threats
Lexmark said replacement cartridges violated copyright, but courts disagreed.
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Hands-on with the HTC One M8: Fix the bad, keep the good, add a gimmicky camera
HTC's new flagship has a better button layout, but we're not sure about the camera.
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Gallery: The new HTC One M8 in all its brushed-metal glory
The new phone's differences from the old one are mostly subtle.
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Rare earth recycling: Is it worth it?
Mining neodymium is dirty, but recycling may not be a panacea.
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Google: Cloud prices should track Moore’s Law, are falling too slowly
Google cuts prices 30 to 85 percent, simplifies application deployment.
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The new HTC One M8 is finally official, $199 on-contract, $649 unlocked
Worst-kept secret in mobile has a 5" 1080p display, dual cameras, Snapdragon 801.
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$397 billion fighter jet deployment may be delayed by software glitches
Full delivery of first F-35 "capability" may come a year late.
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Cities reluctant to reveal whether they’re using fake cell tower devices
Florida city rejects ACLU records request.
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When gov’t spies fake your company’s website, what can be done?
Intel agencies' techno-impersonations wouldn't be immune from trademark law.
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New system tracks and zaps flies with lasers to change behaviors
Perversely, researchers can train males to run away from approaching females.
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Reminder: Ars is hiring a video producer and editor
Have professional video production experience? If so, we want to hear from you!
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Malicious apps can hose Android phones, erase data, researchers warn
Denial-of-service exploit may also work against official Google Play market.
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AT&T promises to lower your Internet bill if FCC kills net neutrality
Not only that, startups can better compete against Netflix by paying off ISPs.
Feature Story
A field report from malaria’s cradle of drug resistance
A report from the small corner of the globe that harbors drug-resistant malaria.
On The Radar
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don't worry, it won't hurt you
Study finds pee in pool water yields toxic byproduct
In case you needed another reason to not urinate in the pool.
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Stock Price Crush Saga?
Candy Crush Saga maker King down 13 percent following stock IPO
Initial pricing valued entire company at roughly $7 billion.
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We hardly knew Yee
California anti-game-violence legislator arrested on bribery charges
State Senator Leland Yee championed law restricting minors' game access.
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Olé!
Brazil caves to Google: New bill drops local data storage requirement
If bill passes, Brazil would become largest country with a net neutrality law.
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Don't say we didn't warn you...
Watch out trolls: Microsoft begins sending Xbox One reputation warnings
Players who ignore repeated reports will placed in "Avoid Me" matchmaking bucket.
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A rift with rift
Minecraft dev halts talks with Oculus following Facebook acquisition
Notch: "I don’t want to work with social, I want to work with games."
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Senseless differentiation
HTC planning Google Play Edition of the new HTC One [Updated]
Don't like HTC's skin? Pre-orders are live for the Google Play edition.
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leak-proofing the web
MIT creates a system to “PRISM-proof” websites
System could secure data by encrypting it before it leaves your computer.
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Feeling blue
Windows Azure no more: Microsoft renames its cloud computing service
It's now just going to be "Azure."
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civitas magna peculi
Tuesday Dealmaster’s got that SSD: A 256GB Crucial M550 for $168
And that's not the only one! We've got all kinds of SSDs up in here!
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Uncle Sam wants his cut
IRS: Bitcoin is property, like a stock or bond, and not a currency
If you sell Bitcoin and make money, you have to pay taxes on it.
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Can never have enough speed
Nvidia and IBM create GPU interconnect for faster supercomputing
"NVLink" shares up to 80GB of data per second between CPUs and GPUs.
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Mega millions
Mega opts for a reverse takeover so it can go public on NZ exchange
Kim Dotcom's service will get new investors ahead of encrypted chat, e-mail expansion.
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A different sort of reaper
To replace drone strikes, US to give Yemen Hellfire-armed crop dusters
“Precision Strike” program will deliver two-man planes for targeted killing
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Ancient history
Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS and Word
Company donates DOS 1.1 and Word for Windows 1.1 code to Computer History Museum.
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Drone countermeasures for moose
Alaska bans hunters from using drones
After “drone-assisted” moose kill, Board of Game prohibits their use as spotters.
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Xbox nine-tenths
Xbox One price cut expands to Microsoft Store, other retailers [Updated]
$450 bundle with game not official, but it's becoming the current retail standard.
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a free book (maybe)
E-book price fixing settlements land in Amazon customers’ inboxes
There may be still more money to come from other e-book retailers.
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Directory assistance
White House to propose law to end NSA bulk collection of phone data
Phone companies will keep data, provided only with new court's order.
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BLACKHATTED BLACKMAILERS
Attackers to Basecamp: If you ever want to get back online, pay us or else
Site fights back against extortion-motivated denial-of-service assaults.
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Droid does time
US gov’t secures first-ever win against Android app pirates
Two men could face a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Driver Ed
Xbox One gamepads finally, unofficially supported on PC
Recent update adds full trigger support, but hacked solution is inelegant.
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Lost at sea
Malaysian airliner’s path ultimately tracked by satellite pings’ Doppler shift
Inmarsat analysis of other planes’ signals and paths helped determine course.
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Google Now, right now
Google Now on Chrome finally comes to Windows and Mac OS
Google Now hits the desktop—provided you already have it on Android or iOS
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EXPLOITS 'R' US
Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word under active attack
People using Word 2010 with Outlook should take immediate action, company warns.
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where u at?
Judge to porn trolls: IP addresses aren’t people
A Malibu Media lawsuit gets thrown out in record time. Will others follow?
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Changing hands
Microsoft purchase of Nokia phone division delayed by regulators until April
The companies are still waiting for Asian regulators to authorize the transfer.
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resistance is futile
Lack of Twitter geotags can’t stop researchers from getting location
A clever algorithm can often figure out where you are.
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Staff Blog
Where did all the risk-takers go?
Has the system driven risk-takers out of scientific research?
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Best ad for Twitter ever
After DNS change fails, Turkish government steps up Twitter censorship
Turkish ISPs now block Twitter’s IP address range.
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Free and fast
New Linux version will reduce suspend and resume times
Intel, Nvidia, and AMD graphics updates are also in the cards.
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Hello? It's me.
NSA hacked Huawei servers, watched company’s executives, NYT sources say
Snowden docs, anonymous sources point to US gov. intrusion in Huawei infrastructure.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
The beautiful invasion: Sponsorship and Instagram
Unwritten rules, very real money, and a slew of pro photographers with a favorite app.
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Feature Story (4 pages)
Taking e-mail back, part 3: Fortifying your box against spammers
We load up OpenDKIM, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and get Sieve filtering operational.
Ars SmartStream
Exploring the smarter Internet
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IBM | 12/23/13
Too Much IT Operations Data? Try Analyzing It with Cognitive Insights
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GCN | 12/23/13
Massachusetts launches open cloud to spur big data R&D
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Midsize Insider | 12/17/13
Cloud, Core and Competition
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Ars Technica | 12/14/13
British Library sticks 1 million pics on Flickr, asks for help making them useful
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Midsize Insider | 12/13/13
Democratization of Big Data for Marketing in Any Size Organization
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Bloodhound SSC: How do you build a car capable of 1,000mph?
Rockets and jets power a land speed record attempt and STEM outreach project.
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Gears of war: When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves
In some ways, the Navy's latest computers fall short of the power of 1930s tech.
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