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Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

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Kiona N. Smith @ Ars Technica 2 place · 06/06/2026 07:15 EDT

What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem? Read more ›

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Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 05/15/2026 12:35 EDT

Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns. Read more ›

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Honda shows off new hybrids for America as it absorbs $9 billion EV loss

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 05/15/2026 11:56 EDT

The automaker marked its first annual loss in more than 70 years. Read more ›

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Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included

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Chris Lee @ Ars Technica · 05/15/2026 11:07 EDT

The vacuum giveth, the vacuum taketh, but the vacuum doesn’t let you taketh. Read more ›

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Rocket Report: Russia claims success with new ICBM; spaceplane déjà vu in Europe

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Stephen Clark @ Ars Technica · 05/15/2026 10:24 EDT

SpaceX's upgraded Starship is set to launch on its first test flight as soon as Tuesday, May 19. Read more ›

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Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how

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Beth Mole @ Ars Technica · 05/15/2026 10:01 EDT

Vaccines may be training a part of our immune system long thought to be untrainable. Read more ›

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Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom

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Inside Climate News @ Ars Technica · 05/15/2026 09:51 EDT

“This is a public trust and transparency issue.” Read more ›

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The perfect commuter bike? Velotric's Discover 3 makes its case.

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John Timmer @ Ars Technica · 05/15/2026 07:00 EDT

A customized mid-motor and Shimano's new Cues components are a winning combination. Read more ›

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Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness"

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica · 05/15/2026 06:30 EDT

"We have no grand plan," says Anthropic's Cat Wu—but that's by design. Read more ›

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Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype

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Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 17:32 EDT

Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound." Read more ›

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Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 17:02 EDT

One little mystery—solved. Read more ›

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Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves

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Nate Anderson @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 15:27 EDT

People confide almost everything to their phones. Read more ›

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Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers

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Jeremy Hsu @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 15:17 EDT

Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy. Read more ›

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AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs

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Andrew Cunningham @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 14:55 EDT

FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit. Read more ›

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Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption

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Jon Brodkin @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 14:45 EDT

Trump admin wants to let Musk pay $1.5M fine to settle $150 million Twitter suit. Read more ›

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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

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Dan Goodin @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 14:32 EDT

It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating. Read more ›

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Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds

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Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 13:28 EDT

Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes. Read more ›

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Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.

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Jonathan M. Gitlin @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 13:06 EDT

The three-wheel, two-seat EV has been in development since 2006. Read more ›

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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

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Scharon Harding @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 12:47 EDT

Layoffs are "not a savings-driven resutrcture," CFO says. Read more ›

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Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño

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Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 09:09 EDT

Ocean heat plus human-caused global warming is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes. Read more ›

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Motorola Razr Fold review: Fits neatly in your pocket but not your budget

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Ryan Whitwam @ Ars Technica · 05/14/2026 09:00 EDT

The Razr Fold has a lot going for it, but like all foldables, it's wildly expensive. Read more ›

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