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South Indian Ocean has seen a record number of major hurricanes this season

By some measures, it has been the busiest South Indian Ocean hurricane season on record. In terms of damage and major hurricanes, it...

Electron qubit non-destructively read: Silicon qubits may be better

I suspect that if you asked an engineer at Intel about quantum computing, they probably wouldn’t want to know about it unless the...

Considering methane leaks, is moving from coal to natural gas all that good?

Coal is among the most polluting fuels that nations around the world use regularly to create electricity. It's especially bad in terms of...

Avengers Endgame is three of Marvel’s best films, rolled into one

Ars Technica takes spoilers seriously. This Avengers Endgame review has been written with a bare minimum of plot details, for those interested in...

Swirling patterns in Starry Night match those in gassy star nurseries

In 2004, NASA published an image by the Hubble Space Telescope of turbulent eddies of dusty clouds moving around a supergiant star. The...

Crap artists rejoice! MS Paint is getting a last-minute reprieve

Long, long ago, Microsoft quietly announced that it was going to remove the venerable mspaint.exe from Windows 10. The app was listed as...

Millimeter-wave 5G isn’t for widespread coverage, Verizon admits

Verizon's early rollout of millimeter-wave 5G is producing high speeds and throughput, but the high-frequency spectrum isn't suitable for widespread coverage, Verizon CEO...

Twitter shuts down 5,000 pro-Trump bots retweeting anti-Mueller report invective

Twitter has suspended over 5,000 accounts tied to a network amplifying a message denouncing the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as a...

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