Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4 billion acquisition
Enlarge / The Amazon logo at the entrance of a logistics center in France, July 2019.
Days before Christmas, at the height of the last-minute holiday shopping rush, an ominous …
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Intel’s Mobileye has a plan to dominate self-driving—and it might work
Enlarge / Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua. (credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
A lot of media coverage of self-driving technology has focused on a handful of big companies with well-known brands: Google, Uber, Tesla, and GM. But there’s another company working on
US Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware
An Android phone subsidized by the US government for low-income users comes preinstalled with malware that can’t be removed without making the device cease to work, researchers …
Ukraine airliner that crashed in Iran likely shot down, US officials say
Enlarge / A child’s shoe is pictured on January 8, 2020, at the scene of a Ukrainian airliner that crashed shortly after take-off near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran. US officials say that the plane was likely
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Verizon’s great FiOS offer to me: Pay $50 extra for slower Internet
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Verizon today claimed that it is “disrupt[ing] the cable industry” with new broadband-and-TV deals that eliminate “traditional cable bundles” and hidden fees, and the move immediately …
Paul Krugman’s no good, very bad Internet day
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New York Times security team to the rescue.
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, professor at the City University of New York, and New …
This Nissan concept is next year’s electric alternative to the Rogue SUV
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Nissan brought the Ariya electric concept to CES this year. [credit: Nissan ]
When it comes to concept cars, there are two main kinds. There’s the “half of this technology doesn’t exist yet” kind, like the Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR we
Firefox gets patch for critical zeroday that’s being actively exploited
Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox that fixes an actively exploited zeroday that could allow attackers to take control of users’ computers.
In an advisory…
NYC broadband plan calls for fiber everywhere, with ISPs sharing network
Enlarge / New York City.
The New York City government has released an “Internet Master Plan” that calls for universal broadband throughout the five boroughs, relying on open-access fiber networks …
No, cops aren’t using SiriusXM to find criminals. Here’s how they do it
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An Ars reader this week drew our attention to a news story out of Southern California. The case involved a man wanted on suspicion of attempted murder and other alleged crimes.