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Original Star Control creators deploy nuclear option against Stardock
The ongoing legal battle between original Star Control…
June postscript: 5 unusual things you can make in an Internet-connected oven
Earlier this month, Ars reviewed the June Oven, an Internet-connected, seven-in-one device …
Offshore, Act Two: New owner repowers 20-year-old wind farm off Swedish coast
In November, a Danish asset management group called Momentum Gruppen recommissioned …
Mining company says first autonomous freight train network is fully operational
On Friday, major mining corporation Rio Tinto announced that its AutoHaul autonomous train system in Western Australia had logged more …
PNC Bank testing dynamic CVV codes to combat online card fraud
US-based PNC Bank is in the middle of a pilot project that aims …
AI invents New Year fireworks names that sound more like the end of humanity
When AI isn’t scaring us by way of generating more realistic fakes than we ever thought possible, it’s coming up with …
Using molten salt to store electricity isn’t just for solar thermal plants
An energy storage startup that found its footing at Alphabet’s X “moonshot” division announced last …
Try your hand at being an operator at the Roseville Telephone Museum
ROSEVILLE, Calif.—I don’t know about you, but I marvel that, with a tiny device in my pocket, I can instantly hear …
Four months after its debut, sneaky Mac malware went undetected by AV providers
Four months after a mysterious group was outed for a digital …