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Gorilla Mindset is the Doctor Pepper Ten of Self Help Books

              You know that self-help bullshit that lines the walls of bookstores tha...

Study Shows Women Need More Sleep Than Men for THIS Reason!

This article is not written by me. It is written by Katherine Crofton and the original article can be found here. With that being said it is reposted ...

A Social Welfare Program the Right will Vigorously support: Gun Stamps

              Since we have a Republican majority going on right now, it’s goin...

Shittown

A podcast series produced by NPR. This first paragraph is going to be the only spoiler free section of this review. Shittown starts off with a call by...

Yik Yak is finally relegated to the dustbin of Internet history

On Friday, the Yik Yak app officially closed up shop. The company’s founders, Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, wrote up a short blog post...

Fitbit Flex 2 “exploded” on woman’s wrist, leaving second-degree burns

Samsung isn't the only company that has had deal with exploding products. A Wisconsin woman told ABC News that her new Fi...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Man O’ War – Corsair

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

>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...

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...

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...

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...

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" ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Fixing SNAP: Adding Lobster and Steak Budgets

              While the title is pure clickbait, I do have a proposal to help SNAP re...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Depression Is Complicated

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...

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...

Corporate Cock Tastes Worse than Government Cock

              Libertarians are louder than ever. ‘Government has failed us. Gov...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...