IDG Contributor Network: Robots in restaurants, imagining the future
You might think this article is based on the Jetsons, but the interesting thing is that seeing robots in public spaces isn’t that far off.The field of robotics is accelerating. We are seeing virtual...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Robots in restaurants: imagining the future
You might think this article is based on the Jetsons, but the interesting thing is that seeing robots in public spaces isn’t that far off.The field of robotics is accelerating. We are seeing virtual...
View ArticleThe Genesis G90 proves its past time to take this new luxury brand seriously
It's loaded with toys and, at $70,000, seriously undercuts the opposition.
View ArticleHow did someone hijack your Gmail? Phishing, keylogger or password reuse,...
If you run a website with user accounts, take a look at this research, ta Google has teamed up with computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, to find out how exactly hijackers take...
View ArticleNew doings at Ars: “The Guidemaster” and more recommendations
A heads-up on some new features rolling out very shortly.
View ArticleParity’s $280m Ethereum wallet freeze was no accident: It was a HACK, claims...
And we have evidence to prove it, says biz stiffed out of $1m A crypto-currency collector who was locked out of his $1m Ethereum multi-signature wallet this week by a catastrophic bug in Parity's...
View ArticleManic miners, hideous hackers, frightful flaws, vibrating mock cock app shock...
It's your weekly security news bytes Roundup Phew, we made it to the weekend. Let's take a look at everything that went down in IT security beyond what we've already covered this week.…
View ArticleWarhammer Underworlds: Shadespire: A 30-minute war in the grimdark future
Minis at war—but not a tape measure in sight.
View ArticleSpatial audio is the most exciting thing to happen to pop music since stereo
REM's original album engineers tell Ars how they harnessed Dolby Atmos to blow us away.
View ArticleNeed for Speed: Payback can’t avoid its own bankruptcy
Poor driving and awful writing donrsquo;t justify a tremendous loot-drop grind.
View ArticleThe Dream Chaser spacecraft has completed a successful free flight
“The Dream Chaser had a beautiful flight and landing!”
View ArticleThe end of Stranger Things S2 slays whatever early-season nitpicks existed
Reviewing episodes 7-9: OK, maybe wersquo;d skip 7 on a rewatch.
View ArticleGiving agriculture a global do-over could feed nearly a billion more people
Globally optimizing which crops we grow where cuts water use and feeds more people.
View ArticleBitcoin rival doubles in price in four days as Bitcoin price slumps
With Bitcoin mired in controversy, a rival called Bitcoin Cash is gaining ground.
View ArticleCopperheadOS stops updates to thwart knock-off phone floggers
Hardened Android vendor found third parties eating its lunch The folk in charge of the hardened Android distribution CopperheadOS have run into problems with licence violations. Over the weekend, they...
View ArticleRide-share upstart ‘Fasten’ revealed as Hive of insecurity
Like Uber but for leaking personal data: a million customer records left on unsecured Hadoop Boston-based ride-hailing hopeful Fasten has coughed to a million-customer data breach that happened because...
View ArticleWhat is Apache Spark? The big data analytics platform explained
From its humble beginnings in the AMPLab at U.C.Berkeley in 2009, Apache Spark has become one of the key big data distributed processing frameworks in the world.Spark can be deployed in a variety of...
View ArticleHow to avoid memory leaks in .Net applications
If you have developed C or C++ applications, then you are no doubt aware of memory leaks and their pitfalls.Although the .Net CLR abstracts memory management from the developer, memory leaks can happen...
View ArticleA history of the Amiga, part 11: Between an Escom and a Gateway
The Amiga didn't go away with Commodore, but its future was uncertain.
View ArticleXGS-PON interoperability advances after second Plugfest
LAN-hosted event in Tauxigny, France, brought together 13 companiesTauxigny, France, November 13, 2017: Leading industry names from across the globe came together to accelerate the development of PON...
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