Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
NASA temporarily loses contact with V'ger (arstechnica.com)
The Voyagers were launched nearly half a century ago.
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
CherryBlos: Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition (arstechnica.com)
The malware, dubbed CherryBlos by researchers from security firm Trend Micro, has been embedded into at least four Android apps available outside of Google Play, specifically on sites promoting money-making scams. One of the apps was available for close to a month on Google Play but didn’t contain the malicious CherryBlos...
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."
Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make (arstechnica.com)
NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark (arstechnica.com)
The allergy, called alpha-gal syndrome, came to light a little over a decade ago.
Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark (arstechnica.com)
The allergy, called alpha-gal syndrome, came to light a little over a decade ago.
Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken (arstechnica.com)
Tesla has consistently exaggerated the driving range of its electric vehicles, reportedly leading car owners to think something was broken when actual driving range was much lower than advertised. When these owners scheduled service appointments to fix the problem, Tesla canceled the appointments because there was no way to...
Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you (arstechnica.com)
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US senator blasts Microsoft for “negligent cybersecurity practices” (arstechnica.com)
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BMW uses autonomous cars for boring, repetitive tests (arstechnica.com)
On a large empty slab of asphalt, two BMWs take off. They drive in figure eights and along an oval path separate from each other but nearly in tandem, like two ice skaters practicing the same routine on a piece of black ice before coming to a stop....
Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make (arstechnica.com)
Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken (arstechnica.com)
Inundated with complaints, Tesla created "Diversion Team" to cancel appointments.
Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you (arstechnica.com)
The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)
Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.
Over 230 people get puzzling neurological disorder in Peru; emergency declared (arstechnica.com)
Namibian fairy circle debate rages on: Sand termites or Turing mechanism? [Updated] (arstechnica.com)
Study offers four-point rebuttal to 2022 claim that they're a kind of eco-Turing pattern.
Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, OpenAI released an official ChatGPT app for Android, now available in the Google Play Store in four countries: the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with more coming soon. As a client for OpenAI’s language model family, the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models run on the cloud and provide results to your Android device. It...
Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy” (arstechnica.com)
