Ars plays Star Trek: Bridge Crew Ars and Star Trek go together, as the great philosopher once said, like peas and carrots. You won’t find a dorkier bunch of editors assembled in any one place on the entire Internet—and that’s why playing Star Trek: Bridge Crew was such an easy fit. The VR title, originally …
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Enlarge / Classic whale tails. (credit: NOAA) On Wednesday, Japan announced that it was pulling out of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), a step that will allow it to restart commercial whaling in the spring. The move comes after a failed attempt to get the IWC to set legal quotas for legal hunting by its …
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all, beloved readers! It’s the day after Christmas and the vast majority of the Ars staff is enjoying their well-earned vacations and preparing to return to work and tackle the new year, but a few of us—Megan, Sam the Red, Dr. Jay, and I—are holding down the fort …
Ars Christmas downtime special: four movies retold as medieval tales Read More »
Collective Suicide (1936), by Mexican muralist David A. Siqueiros, is an example of the “accidental painting” technique developed by the artist.’> Enlarge / Collective Suicide (1936), by Mexican muralist David A. Siqueiros, is an example of the “accidental painting” technique developed by the artist. (credit: A. Aviram/MOMA, New York, via R. Zenit) There’s rarely time …
Study: modern masters like Jackson Pollock were “intuitive physicists” Read More »
Enlarge / This Google Earth image shows two large Scythian burial mounds, each over 20 meters (65.6 feet) wide. (credit: Caspari et al. 2018) Around 900 BCE, a group of nomads from Siberia called Scythians began spreading across the central Asian steppe, their mounted archers sweeping across huge swaths of territory. Today the steppe from …
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Enlarge / The Apple Watch series 4. (credit: Valentina Palladino) Farewell, 2018. You brought us Facebook scandal after Facebook scandal, vastly more devices with Alexa and Google Assistant than anyone needs, a nosedive for net neutrality, endless political and regulatory challenges for Chinese smartphone makers, and oh so many notch-equipped smartphones. We’re ready for about …
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On The Basis Of Sex wasn’t the only RBG-related release on Christmas Day. “Justice Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is recuperating at home,” Supreme Court spokesperson Kathy Arberg wrote in an email to reporters Wednesday, CNN reports. Ginsburg, 85, left Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York …
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Tesla is expecting a “very strong” 2019, according to an analyst who said the electric car company’s Model 3 continues in high demand, CNBC reported. Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, said strong Model 3 sales should in the near future reduce Tesla’s need to raise capital, which has been an ongoing issue since …
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Apple’s newest slate of iPhones are helping the company attract more Android users, according to a new study. In a survey of U.S. Apple customers who purchased an iPhone after Apple released the iPhone XR on October 26, 16% of them were previous Android users who decided to switch to a new iPhone, according to …
More Android Users Are Buying New iPhones, Study Shows Read More »
The big gift box under the retail industry’s Christmas tree was full–of cash, according to early data. U.S. retail sales were up this year 5.1% to more than $850 billion, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, a report from the payment card vendor that looks at consumer purchases from December 1 through 24. It was the strongest …
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