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Astronomers find an oddball asteroid entirely inside the orbit of Venus

Astronomers have found nearly 1 million asteroids in our Solar System, with the vast majority located in the asteroid belt between Mars and...

Frontier, an ISP in 29 states, plans to file for bankruptcy

Frontier Communications is planning to file for bankruptcy within two months, Bloomberg reported last week. The telco "is asking creditors to help craft...

Study finds that the popular rubber hand illusion could be used to treat OCD

Chances are good that you've seen entertaining footage of the so-called "rubber hand illusion," where someone becomes convinced that a fake rubber hand...

Are bioplastics all hype or the future of textiles?

The English metallurgist Alexander Parkes never saw the widespread realization of his spectacular 19th-century invention, celluloid, the first plastic. While a revolutionary breakthrough,...

The machines are whispering: We tested AI Dungeon 2 and cannot stop laughing

In February 2019, we at Ars Technica learned about the Generative Pre-trained Transformer-2 (GPT-2) toolset, a freakish machine-learning algorithm that was trained on...

Tremors turns 30, the most perfect B movie creature feature ever made

It's been 30 years since the release of , an unabashed love letter to the B-movie creature features of the 1950s that...

SpaceX successfully completes its Dragon abort test [Updated]

Today, SpaceX attempted a critical test of its ability to launch humans to orbit: the ability to get them away from the rocket...

Apple TV+: Can it be saved before everyone’s free trials run out?

When Apple TV+ launched in November 2019, it was the first of four major video-streaming services that would launch between then and May...

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