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June postscript: 5 unusual things you can make in an Internet-connected oven

Book tells the inside story of how Reddit came to be the Internet’s “id”

PNC Bank testing dynamic CVV codes to combat online card fraud

A tour of elementary OS, perhaps the Linux world’s best hope for the mainstream

Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study

Samsung image erroneously claims partnership with Ars Technica

Our favorite (and least favorite) tech of 2018

Hands-on with a $434 replica lightsaber: May the dork be with you

Douglas Adams was right: “Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets

How a toaster oven helped me learn to stop worrying and love the Internet of Things

AT&T 5G goes live this week with ridiculously overpowered hotspot

Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal

Windows 10 will make it easier to ¯‍∖‍_‍(‍惄‍)‍_‍/‍¯ and ‍(‍╯‍°‍□‍°‍)‍╯‍︵‍ ‍┻‍━‍┻

Apple Music will soon work on third-party Alexa devices, too

Windows Sandbox marries VM isolation to container efficiency to safely run dodgy apps

Logitech firmware update breaks locally controlled Harmony Hub systems

Apple releases a tiny iOS update in 12.1.2, fixing connectivity bugs

Windows 10 October 2018 Update now available for just about everyone who wants it

Google Chrome wants to stop back-button hijacking

The Web now belongs to Google, and that should worry us all

Apple to bring Charlie Brown and the Peanuts to its streaming service

Huawei Watch GT review: A pricey companion for the limited LiteOS

Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died this week—she should be remembered

Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while

Apple will spend $1 billion and hire up to 15,000 people for new Austin office

Microsoft is putting together a Microsoft 365 subscription for home users

Chromecasts are finally available from Amazon again

Samsung teases new Notebook 9 Pen with 15-hour battery life before CES 2019

Microsoft adds Dark Mode support and more to Office 365 for Mac

An ECG on your wrist: Apple’s new heart-monitoring software

New 17-inch LG Gram laptop weighs 2.9 pounds, has nearly 20-hour battery life

Intel promises big boost to integrated GPU, breaks teraflop barrier

Intel unveils a new architecture for 2019: Sunny Cove

Intel introduces Foveros: 3D die stacking for more than just memory

Dell’s 2018 XPS 13 DE—The best “out of the box” Linux laptop gets the best OS

macOS Mojave’s dark mode is coming to Google Chrome

Samsung embarrassingly partners with “counterfeit” version of Supreme

WireGuard gets a new, user-friendly service provider

Latest Windows Insider build makes a major upgrade to, uh… Notepad

Qualcomm says a Chinese court has banned iPhone sales nationwide

Cryptography failure leads to easy hacking for PlayStation Classic

Apple’s anticipated ECG app rolls out today in watchOS 5.1.2

Post-mortem: Tying Edge to Windows 10 was a fatal error

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 is official, coming to Android flagships in 2019

Google promises to shut down two of its seven messaging apps

Apple releases iOS 12.1.1, macOS Mojave 10.14.2, and tvOS 12.1.1

Tom Cruise finally takes a stand… on your parents’ terrible TV settings

Tumblr’s porn ban is going about as badly as expected

Galaxy S10 renders show off “hole punch” camera notch, four rear cameras

Microsoft continues its quest to embrace every developer with Visual Studio 2019

The Razer Blade Stealth gets an overhaul with a 4K display and better graphics

Report: Microsoft is scrapping Edge, switching to just another Chrome clone

Google bridges Android and iOS development with Flutter 1.0

Review: Helm Personal Server gets email self-hosting (almost) exactly right

Tim Cook: Apple won’t tolerate white supremacists, conspiracy theorists

The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—good tech for the power user in your life

Apple will skip 5G in 2019, report says

Barnes and Noble’s newest Kindle competitor is a 7-inch, $49 Nook

Apple published a surprising amount of detail about how the HomePod works

Report: AirPods with wireless charging expected in early 2019

Palm Phone Review: Fun, endearing, and bad at everything

Microsoft Office has pretty new icons but they have a fatal flaw

Apple Music arrives on Amazon’s Echo speakers starting December 17

Microsoft wins $480 million military contract to bring HoloLens to the battlefield

Pixel Slate review: Paying the “Google” premium for Chrome OS

Windows 10 1809: iCloud incompatibility fixed, but other blockers remain

Google’s cellular service gets rebranded, offers support for iPhones

YouTube may make Originals free (with ads) for all to watch by 2020

Microsoft explains one Azure authentication outage as another one happens

Moto G7 Play pops up at the FCC with notch design, dramatically smaller battery

802.eleventy which? 802.11ax and 802.11ay, explained

Microsoft (briefly) passed Apple to become the most valuable US company today

Latest Windows 10 update breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 apps in general

Dealmaster: The Cyber Monday 2018 tech deals that are worth your time

Dealmaster: A PS4 and Red Dead Redemption 2 for $199 may be the best deal of Cyber Monday

New wearable tech lets users listen to live music through their skin

Bloodhound SSC: How do you build a car capable of 1,000mph?

Mac mini review—a testament to Apple’s stubbornness

Kobo Forma review: A formidable opponent for Amazon’s Kindle Oasis

Store-bought is not enough: My first hard cider homebrew

Guidemaster: Want an Alexa device? Here’s every Amazon Echo, compared

Study: It only takes a few seconds for bots to spread misinformation

Google adds indoor positioning to Android’s Find My Device

Microsoft joining Qualcomm and Google to bring Chrome to Windows on ARM

Now it’s Office’s turn to have a load of patches pulled

Samsung reportedly planning five flagship phone models for early 2019

Forget VR treadmills—Google patents motorized, omnidirectional VR sneakers

The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—good tech for the home and home office

Tim Cook defends using Google as primary search engine on Apple devices

Dealmaster: The Black Friday 2018 tech deals that might actually be worth buying

The new frontier of Automated Tests is Machine Learning

Intel 9th Gen Core i9 9900K review: Top performance, but pricey

The mid-range Google Pixel appears in pictures—complete with headphone jack

HP Elitebook x360 1030 review: Small tweaks made to a stylish work 2-in-1

Apple inks deal with A24 studio to produce original, feature-length films

To complement the new Windows 10 dark theme, Microsoft is adding a light theme

Microsoft wants Azure to be the multiplayer server solution for every platform

Essential will sell your phone’s missing headphone jack back to you for $150

Cave acoustics can help sculpt more realistic sounds in digital space

Spotify officially releases first version of its Apple Watch app

Spectre, Meltdown researchers unveil 7 more speculative execution attacks

Windows 10 October 2018 Update is back, this time without deleting your data

Google adds always-on VPN to its Project Fi cellular service

Apple’s T2 chip will block some third-party repairs of new devices

The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—tech and gear for travel that we’d buy

The next version of HTTP won’t be using TCP

iPad Pro teardown reveals TrueDepth array change, Apple Pencil guts

Surface Go with integrated LTE available for preorder now, from $679

Samsung’s foldable smartphone reportedly costs $1,770, launches in March

Apple to replace unresponsive iPhone X touchscreens for free

25 years of two-wheeled tech

iFixit tears down the Mac mini and MacBook Air

What you need to know before importing that exotic Chinese Android phone

Windows 10 users finding their legit installs are being deactivated

Acer Swift 7 review: thinness above all else demands many compromises

Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard

Samsung’s foldable phone is real, and it launches next year

Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip

2018 iPad Pro review: “What’s a computer?”

Microsoft’s special Costco Surface Go is now available to all

Kindle Paperwhite 2018 review: The best-value Kindle gets even better

AMD outlines its future: 7nm GPUs with PCIe 4, Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 4

Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness

Chrome 71 will block any and all ads on sites with “abusive experiences”

Samsung teases mythical smartphone with foldable display

iPhone XR review: Keeping compromises to a minimum

Amazon drops $25 free shipping minimum for all US holiday shoppers

Intel announces Cascade Lake Xeons: 48 cores and 12-channel memory per socket

Lenovo Yoga Book 2018 review: The keyless keyboard returns, now in E Ink

Apple services reach a whopping $10 billion in revenue in Q4 2018

Satya Nadella: The cloud is going to move underwater

ZTE Nubia X smartphone features two screens, two fingerprint readers

Helium implicated in weird iPhone malfunctions

Apple to offer MacBook Pros with AMD Vega graphics starting in November

2018 iPad Pro hands-on: Improving on the world’s best tablet

New MacBook Air, Mac mini hands-on: Making old favorites new again

Windows 10 October 2018 Update still not released, running out of October

Apple confirms iOS 12.1 shipping today with 32-person Group Facetime

Adieu, home button—Apple’s new iPad Pros have nearly edge-to-edge screens, FaceID

Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini

Apple finally updates MacBook Air with Retina display, Touch ID

Mini-review for a mini-device: The Puppy Cube touch-controlled projector

OnePlus 6T Review: Amazing value with an even more amazing fingerprint reader

Liveblog: All the news from Apple’s “more in the making” Brooklyn event

Garmin Vivosmart 4 review: An affordable band for easy fitness, SpO2 data

What Apple might announce at its October 30 “special event” in Brooklyn

Lenovo Yoga C930 2-in-1 review: Hidden features in all the right places

GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft

Half of enterprise machines run Windows 10, as Windows 7’s end of life looms

Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 3 is an all-screen magnetic slider phone with 10GB of RAM

Microsoft posts a record $29.1 billion Q1. Same old, same old

Another Windows 0-day flaw has been published on Twitter

Apple’s TV subscription service starts in 2019 to compete with Netflix, Amazon

Apple says glossy iPhone XS selfies were a bug, promises a fix in iOS 12.1

HP updates Spectre x360 2-in-1s with webcam privacy switch, more battery life

Latest Firefox takes aim at tracking cookies and promotes the use of VPN

DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own $79 stand

Twitter plays whack-a-mole with Alex Jones, suspends 18 linked accounts

Dell refreshes its Latitude rugged laptop line with three new models

Report: Intel is cancelling its 10nm process. Intel: No, we’re not

Google Home Hub review—Awesome hardware for Google’s nascent smart display software

DNA Storage: the solution to Big Data in a strand?

After the Windows update fiasco, Microsoft needs to shake up its dev process

Google to charge Android OEMs as much as $40 per phone in EU

Vivaldi 2.0 review: The modern Web browser does not have to be so bland

This business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend

Samsung launches Snapdragon 850-powered Windows 2-in-1

“There’s more in the making”—Apple announces October 30 event

Microsoft making more of the Windows 10 built-in apps removable

Essential circles the drain, lays off 30 percent of staff

Spotify comes to Wear OS with stand-alone app, Spotify Connect support

Google to charge OEMs for Android apps in the EU

Browser vendors unite to end support for 20-year-old TLS 1.0

iFixit rips open the Pixel 3 XL, finds a Samsung display panel

Amazon makes Kindle Paperwhite waterproof—and it still starts at $129

Paul Allen—Microsoft co-founder, Seahawks owner, and space pioneer—dies at 64

Adobe bringing Photoshop to the iPad next year

Palm rises from the dead as a zombie brand, launches tiny smartphone

Pixel 3 XL Review—Great software, but Google just isn’t a hardware leader

Dell’s newest monitor is a 49-inch, dual QHD, curved behemoth

What developers say Apple needs to do to make the Apple TV a gaming console

Fitbit Charge 3 review: Peppering a fitness tracker with smartwatch powers

The Razer Phone 2 is coming October 22 with beefier specs and RGB lighting

PC market flat, as Surface becomes a top-5 computer brand in the US

Amazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you meds

Apple boosts chipmaking efforts with $600 million Dialog Semiconductor deal

AT&T to launch streaming service with shows from HBO, Turner, Warner Bros

Google Home Hub—Under the hood, it’s nothing like other Google smart displays

Microsoft promises to defend—not attack—Linux with its 60,000 patents

Scratching the surface of Google’s newest smartphone: Hands-on with the Pixel 3

Microsoft fixes October Update file deleting bug, resumes insider testing

HP’s x360 14 Chromebook is a radical change from last year’s model