Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement
Emboldened by Donald Trump's election win, Republicans are seeking big changes to a $42.45 billion broadband deployment ...
The good, the bad, and the ugly behind the push for more smart displays
Samsung and LG smart monitors use the same OSes as their respective smart TVs. LG and Samsung TVs are better at keeping ads ...
Ancient fish-trapping network supported the rise of Maya civilization
On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.
Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival
On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its total ...
Our Universe is not fine-tuned for life, but it’s still kind of OK
Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the ...
Google seems to have called it quits on making its own Android tablets—again
Ars has contacted Google for comment and confirmation and will update this post with its response.
A former Orion manager has surprisingly credible plans to fly European astronauts
It would be easy to be cynical about a German-French startup named The Exploration Company, which aims to build an ...
Microsoft’s controversial Recall scraper is finally entering public preview
Over five months after publicly scrapping the first version of the Windows Recall feature for its first wave of Copilot+ PCs, ...
Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine portends new era of warfare
Two days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a change in the country's policy for employing nuclear weapons in ...
Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
While stalking its target, GruesomeLarch performed credential-stuffing attacks that compromised the passwords of several ...
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DirecTV announces termination of deal to buy Dish satellite business
In the deal announced on September 30, DirecTV was going to buy the Dish satellite TV and Sling TV streaming business from EchoStar for a nominal fee of $1. DirecTV would have taken on $9.75 billion ...