Gallery: Disorienting audiovisual show prepares you for teleportation
Installation art in Lithuania tries to blur the lines between virtual and real space.
Katie Collins, wired.co.uk
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Month: November 2013
Off Siberia’s Arctic coast, the seafloor belches methane
And it's belching more than we had thought it was.
Scott K. Johnson
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Ars’ resident racer takes a second look at Forza Motorsport 5
Does Microsoft's latest console racer need an early pitstop for repairs?
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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98
Chairs Technica: Where your favorite Ars writers park their rears
The seats we use run the gamut from high tech to garage sale.
Lee Hutchinson
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112
Five complaints Ars readers have about OS X Mavericks
We asked for your complaints about OS X 10.9, and you all certainly delivered.
Andrew Cunningham
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158
Unhappy Thanksgiving for Prenda Law, ordered to pay $261K to defendants
Suing ISPs was a huge blunder; new award more than doubles Prenda's fee orders.
Joe Mullin
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92
TV news team falls for Facebook doppelgänger scam
Fake profiles of Baltimore media pros spread spam links, ask friends for money.
Sean Gallagher
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Robot Garden 1.0: Putting Click and Grow to the test
An Estonian startup wants you to automate your houseplants and small foodstuffs.
Cyrus Farivar
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Most Read
Water-repellant surface so efficient that drops bounce back off
Ridges and asymmetric repulsion appear to be key.
Akshat Rathi
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Successful killing by stealthy seahorses comes down to their snouts
The animal's head creates almost no disturbance in the surrounding water.
Kate Shaw Yoshida
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Tricksy hobbit-sized black hole pretends to be a giant
Unexpectedly high accretion makes ordinary black hole look 100 times bigger.
Matthew Francis
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Ars Technica System Guide: November 2013
After a major GPU release (thanks AMD!) and price war, time to update our DIY guide.
Brian Won
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113
Dealmaster Black Friday blowout continues, with updated deals!
It's Friday, Friday, gonna have deals on Friday!
Lee Hutchinson
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30
Google removes CyanogenMod Installer from Play Store
App "encourages users to void their warranty," in violation of Play's dev terms.
Lee Hutchinson
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108
How to talk your family out of bad consumer electronics purchases
Uncle Frank, drop the Black Friday fliers and put your hands on your head!
Casey Johnston
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172
Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy
Assets might be acquired by Toshiba after OCZ fails to comply with its loan.
Lee Hutchinson
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139
Catch up on last-gen gaming with these Black Friday deals
PS3 and Xbox 360 bundled with software for under $200, plus great game deals.
Kyle Orland
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New Linux worm targets routers, cameras, “Internet of things” devices
Too many Internet-connected devices run code that's woefully out of date.
Dan Goodin
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135
Elusive Higgs decay channel spotted; particle looks ever more standard
A pair of taus, just as the Standard Model ordered.
John Timmer
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Drone crew caught attempting to deliver smokes to prison inmates
Georgia sheriff's deputies capture four smugglers and a hexacopter.
Sean Gallagher
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124
NSA spied on porn, online sexual habits to discredit “radicalizers”
Spies tracked targets' trips to porn sites, online sex activities, report says.
Dan Goodin
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158
IT pro says he threw out 7,500 bitcoins, now worth $7.5 million
As Bitcoin hits $1,000, man says bitcoin-filled hard drive is in a landfill.
Jon Brodkin
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108
We may have spotted jets driven by the Milky Way’s central black hole
Of course, this isn't the first time we've thought that.
John Timmer
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After a month of use, we dish out our biggest gripes with OS X Mavericks
No new software is bug-free, and OS X 10.9 doesn't buck the trend.
Andrew Cunningham
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Always-on voice search from your desktop: “Ok Google” comes to Google.com
Google releases Chrome extension that enables hands-free searching from Google.com.
Ron Amadeo
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Join Ars’ Sean Gallagher in Manhattan for the 2014 Security Threatdown
An expert panel talks about next year's top security threats on December 3.
Sean Gallagher
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It’s the little things, Pt. 3: Time to eliminate geek strongman competitions
If over-complicated design leads to mistakes that freeze work, something's wrong.
John Welch
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Microsoft confirms Xbox Live bans for “excessive profanity” in uploaded clips
Company clarifies that Skype calls are not subject to monitoring.
Kyle Orland
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150
Acer’s Haswell Chromebook gets a touchscreen upgrade, $299 pricetag
New C720P has only 2GB of RAM but boasts a larger 32GB SSD.
Andrew Cunningham
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First third-party “Steam Machine” could already be a console-beater
iBuyPower’s $499 prototype has a nice GPU, but there’s a lot we don’t know.
Kyle Orland
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192
YouTube hilariously impotent against ASCII comment pornographers
Google+ did little to fix YouTube's comments. Now they're just bad in a new way.
Casey Johnston
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193
All of Wikipedia can be installed to your desktop in just 30 hours
Open source application simplifies process of hosting offline Wikipedia.
Jon Brodkin
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Bitcoin’s skyrocketing value ushers in era of $1 million hacker heists
At least three Bitcoin exchanges report high-stakes robberies this month.
Dan Goodin
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78
Pre-Black Friday Dealmaster has deals to help you treat your seat
Grab a nice Herman Miller Embody and free yourself from crappy chairs forever!
Lee Hutchinson
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NASA outlines ingenious plan to resurrect the Kepler planet hunter
"K2" mission would use its solar panels as a pointing device.
John Timmer
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Get it sooner: $179 Moto G now ships December 2 in the US
Pre-orders are direct from Motorola, unlocked and off contract. $179 for 8GB.
Ron Amadeo
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