Tech Releases

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”

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

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

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

Windows 10 will make it easier to ¯‍∖‍_‍(‍ツ‍)‍_‍/‍¯ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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