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Friendly fire may have killed Army Rangers during ISIS raid in Afghanistan
The Defense Department on Friday released the names of two Army Rangers who died during a raid on a compound in Afghanistan on Thursday. ...
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Acer Predator X27: 4K, HDR, and 144Hz G-Sync for the ultimate gaming monitor
Acer has unveiled what may just be the perfect gaming monitor—so long as you don't like ultrawides, at least. The Predator X27 is ...
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President Trump signs NASA advisory bill, says it’s “about jobs”
Prior to Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump had made only a few passing references to space during the first two months of his administratio...
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Net neutrality rules took away your Internet freedom, FCC chair claims
Did you feel a sudden loss of Internet freedom in February 2015? That's when the Federal Communications Commission imposed net neutrality rul...
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Most groundwater is ancient but contains surprising human fingerprint
Water is typically considered a renewable resource, as the global cycle of evaporation and precipitation constantly redistributes it. But not all sour...
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Russian man gets longest-ever US hacking sentence, 27 years in prison
Russian hacker Roman Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years in prison today. He was convicted of causing more than $169 million in dam...
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US nabs a hacker in the Maldives, but Russia sees it as “kidnapping”
The recent arrest of a Russian hacker by the US Department of Homeland Security is stirring up diplomatic difficulties. The suspect, 30-year-o...
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Don’t look now, but the PC is the world’s biggest gaming platform
If you follow the business side of the game industry at all, you're probably sick of hearing how mobile gaming is a fast-growing business juggerna...
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Ubisoft’s first attempts at VR show impressive maturity
Earlier this year, Ubisoft announced that it was interested in bringing "a number of its games" to VR platforms like the Valve-powered HTC V...
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Dawn of War 3: The most promising take on Warhammer 40K yet
What's impressive about Dawn of War III is how beautifully it manages to communicate the weight, scale, and ferocity of the Warhammer 40...
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Warhammer is a refuge from both progress and decline. It’s a safe space where you can always enjoy a militarist’s historical highlight ree...
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Valve will require phone number for Dota 2 ranked matches
Dota 2 maker Valve is taking serious action to cut down on the prevalence of smurfing—using a secondary account in order to play again...
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Report: Google will add an ad blocker to all versions of Chrome Web browser
The Wall Street Journal just dropped a shocker of a report: Google, the biggest Web advertising company in the world, is planning to build an ad ...
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FCC helps AT&T and Verizon charge more
The Federal Communications Commission today voted to eliminate price caps in much of the business broadband market by imposing a new standar...
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I Tried To Pirate Spore And Bricked My Laptop
In 2008, I brought my laptop over to my friend Amanda’s house to pirate Spore. Her boyfriend Nate, who worked at the local GameStop, told m...
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>10,000 Windows computers may be infected by advanced NSA backdoor
Security experts believe that tens of thousands of Windows computers may have been infected by a highly advanced National Security Agency backdoor. Th...
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Chrome, Firefox, and Opera users beware: This isn’t the apple.com you want
If you're using Chrome, Firefox, or Opera to view websites, you should be aware of a weakness that can trick even savvy people into trusting malic...
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South Indian frog oozes molecule that inexplicably decimates flu viruses
From the slimy backs of a South Indian frog comes a new way to blast influenza viruses. A compound in the frog’s mucus—long known to ha...
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The Xiaomi Mi 6 out-specs the Galaxy S8 for half the price
With the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 finally ready for market, it's time for a round of smartphone updates from the usual suspects. The chip debuted&n...
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ATM skimming fraudsters plead guilty
Joel Abel Garcia, a 35-year-old from the Bronx, New York, became the third member of an alleged ring of automated teller machine "skimmers" ...
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New processors are now blocked from receiving updates on old Windows
We knew Microsoft was planning to block installation of Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on systems with Intel 7th Generation Core processors (more...
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Qualcomm loses legal battle with Blackberry, must pay $815M
BlackBerry has won $815 million in an arbitration battle against Qualcomm over royalty payments, the company said today. The award also will incl...
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Ancient ruins point to the origins of American state power
The palace overlooking the plaza at El Palenque would have been an incredible sight to people living more than 2,300 years ago in Mexico's Oaxaca ...
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Feds finally shut down botnet that menaced world for 7 years
Federal prosecutors say they've dealt a fatal blow to Kelihos, a network of more than 10,000 infected computers that was used to deliver spam, ste...
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Ajit Pai can’t convince websites that killing net neutrality is a good idea
The plan to eliminate net neutrality rules and replace them with voluntary commitments is not winning over lobbyists for major Internet companies...
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Tesla is worth more than General Motors or Ford
Props to Elon Musk and the people at Tesla. The company may rarely be profitable, and it is yet to sell enough electric vehicles to tri...
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Long Egg Incubations May Have Doomed the Dinosaurs
From their warm-blooded innards to their feathered exteriors, increasing evidence shows that birds and many dinosaur species had a lot in common. But ...
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Fixing SNAP: Adding Lobster and Steak Budgets
While the title is pure clickbait, I do have a proposal to help SNAP re...
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America takes on Japan in terrifying giant mech battle this August
In 2015, a team of American engineers created the MegaBots Mk. II, a 15-foot-tall, 5,400kg, paintball cannon-armed mech of nightmarish proportion...
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Microsoft formally bans emulators on Xbox, Windows 10 download shops
Microsoft has officially begun encouraging Windows 10 users to download and install the Creators Edition patch, and that has been met w...
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Do you want to play a game? Ransomware asks for high score instead of money
At this point, Ars readers have heard countless tales of computer users being forced to pay significant sums to unlock files encry...
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Google expands automatic “fact check” insertion into search results
After launching a preliminary test in October, Google has officially rolled out an automatic fact check tag program on its search ...
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Eating at Deeya - Indian Cuisine in Clearwater, FL
After a haircut down in Clearwater Florida I felt the need for adventurous eating. Adventurous eating wasn't exactly far off from where I was...
Written by: The 1st Amender
Trump launches attack on Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles
The U.S. military attacked a Syria-government airfield with 59 Tomahawk missiles on Thursday evening. The missiles targeted the Shayrat air ba...
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Depression has been in the spotlight for a good while now. It’s good that there’s awareness and attention so people may be able to recogni...
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What Are Crushed Red Pepper Flakes?
In layman terms, what kind of pepper(s) are these crushed red pepper flakes coming from? Red pepper flakes are in every pizzeria across America, bu...
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Corporate Cock Tastes Worse than Government Cock
Libertarians are louder than ever. ‘Government has failed us. Gov...
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Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying (Spice, K2)
Marijuana is an interesting drug. It’s mostly harmless. People under twenty one shouldn’t be consuming it recreationally because there can...
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Next-generation DDR5 RAM will double the speed of DDR4 in 2018
You may have just upgraded your computer to use DDR4 recently or you may still be using DDR3, but in either case, nothing stays new forever. JEDEC, th...
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Comcast: We won’t sell browser history, and you can opt out of targeted ads
Comcast today said it has "no plans" to sell its customers' individual Web browsing histories, but Comcast can still deliver person...
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We may have just witnessed the dawn of truly commercial spaceflight
Elon Musk had himself a day Thursday. For the first time in history, his company launched a fully reusable first stage of an orbital ro...
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For the first time, we know what Tyrannosaur faces really looked like
New scientific discoveries about Tyrannosaurs have upended our understanding of the giant predators whose massive populations extended from Asia to th...
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Pruitt chooses not to ban pesticide after scientists find neurotoxicity
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced late Wednesday that a widely used pesticide will remain available to fa...
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Microsoft sued for millions over Windows 10 upgrades
Unhappy Windows 10 users in Illinois are taking Microsoft to court, claiming that problems caused by the Windows 10 upgrade show that it was negl...
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Intel is keeping Moore’s Law alive by making bigger improvements less often
Intel took half a day this week to talk about processor manufacturing technology. The company still believes in Moore's Law and says the principle...
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How many NSA spy hubs are scooping up your Internet data? I counted 7
A couple of years ago, when I was investigating the UK's safest ISP, a high-ranking employee at Virgin Media told me there was no NSA or...
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StarCraft remaster unveiled, and original SD version becomes free
A long-rumored StarCraft remaster for computers was finally unveiled on Saturday by Blizzard Entertainment, set for launch in...
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X-rays let you see the smallest feature buried in your CPU
The semiconductor industry is beyond remarkable when it comes to the complexity and precision of processes. A modern integrated circuit is n...
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ISPs are selling your web history
The US Senate yesterday voted to eliminate privacy rules that would have forced ISPs to get your consent before selling Web browsing history...
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Corsair One review: The best small form factor PC we’ve ever tested
It's hard to believe that the Corsair One comes from the same company that designed the Bulldog, a small form factor PC so monstrously ugly t...
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Intel will release 8th-gen Coffee Lake chips this year—still at 14nm
Intel's eighth-generation Core CPUs, codenamed Coffee Lake, will launch in the second half of 2017—far earlier than the 2018 launch period s...
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