Video: See our full interview with NASA astronaut Victor Glover
The Naval aviator with two masterrsquo;s degrees talks to us about NASArsquo;s pastmdash;and future.
View ArticleSave 50% on the TP-LINK Wi-Fi Smart Plug, Works with Amazon Alexa – Deal Alert
The TP-LINK HS100 smart plug is quite simply a power outlet that you can control from anywhere. Using your smartphone, you can turn devices on & off, set programs to turn them on & off at set...
View ArticleDisney to buy part of 21st Century Fox for $52 billion
Disney gets FX Networks, X-Men, Deadpool, and a majority stake in Hulu.
View ArticleTarget acquires Shipt, will roll out $99/year, same-day delivery
Target claims half of its stores will offer same-day delivery by next summer.
View ArticleCrytek sues Star Citizen developers over game engine
Legal action is another distraction for the long-delayed project.
View ArticleState of JavaScript: TypeScript rises, Angular falls
While ECMAScript 6 remains the standard for JavaScript programming, TypeScript, Microsoft’s typed superset of JavaScript, might one day give ECMAScript 6 a run for its money, a newly released report...
View ArticleAOL Instant Messenger is no more, but the memories will last forever
Ars readers reminisce about the heyday of instant messaging.
View ArticleBrit film board proposed as overlord of online pr0nz age checks
Campaigners say body 'will be pushed to block' large number The British Board of Film Classification will be responsible for regulating age checks for UK users of online porn websites, if the...
View ArticleBitcoin beyond the basics: How the $250 billion network really works
Ars goes deep on the breakthrough online payment network.
View ArticleVideo: See our full interview with EVA flight controller Grier Wilt
Lessons learned outside spacecraft in the 1960s shape how we do spacewalks today.
View ArticleRussia could chop vital undersea web cables, warns Brit military chief
ACM Sir Stuart Peach is right – but only to a point The head of the British Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, has warned that Russia could cut off the UK by severing undersea...
View ArticleTeaser: Coming next Tuesday, our Apollo celebration lands on the Moon
We took risks, we had gutsmdash;and, one day in 1969, it all paid off.
View ArticleWe need to talk about mathematical backdoors in encryption algorithms
Yo, NSA maths chaps, can you hear me? – Black Hat man Security researchers regularly set out to find implementation problems in cryptographic algorithms, but not enough effort is going towards the...
View ArticleIt’s happening: Aliens are shooting up human space stations in Elite Dangerous
After a year of teases, puzzles, and feints, the bad guys are heremdash;and they are pissed.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: How containers can bring AI and blockchain to your apps
When you live, eat, breathe, and code using containers as my team and I do, you often forget that not everyone shares your passion for developing apps using containers. When you inherently understand...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: How data aggregation can shake up credit decisioning
Pretty soon, there could be an app for this, that and just about everything in between.The number of active apps is expected to surpass 5 million by the end of 2020—that’s about a 70 percent increase...
View ArticleWorld Health Organization clashes with DEA on marijuana compound, CBD
Preliminary report on CBD finds no evidence of abuse, but hints at medical use.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: As some technologies become mature, our focus shifts...
I recently attended the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 conference in Austin, Texas, which gathers leading technologists from multiple open source cloud-native communities to further the education and...
View ArticleMicrosoft readies dev kit, Q# language for quantum computing
Microsoft is offering a developer kit to help get started in quantum computing and using the company’s quantum-focused Q# programming language.Microsoft has been bullish lately on quantum computing,...
View ArticleComcast to be “unleashed” on rivals when NBC merger conditions expire
Breakup of Comcast and NBC should be explored, senator says.
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