Enlarge / NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, meets backstage with former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, prior to giving the keynote speech at the Humans to Mars Summit in May, 2018, at George Washington University in Washington. NASAAll is not well in the otherworldly world of the second human to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11…
Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk, seen here in April 2018. VCG/VCG via Getty ImagesTesla is now wholly refuting the claims made by an ex-employee and self-proclaimed whistleblower who previously leaked information to the press. In a lengthy statement provided Friday to Ars via a Tesla spokesperson, the company flatly denied that Martin Tripp, the…
Enlarge / The keyboard on the 2016 Touch Bar MacBook Pro. some trouble, and it has launched a new repair service program that promises to fix problems with those keyboards for free, regardless of whether the consumer purchased AppleCare. Apple says in its public documentation on the program that certain models of MacBook and MacBook…
Enlarge / Doctors were able to extract the worm, a D. repens. report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). After her trip, she noticed an unusual lump on her cheek, below her left eye. Five days later it was gone, but another had formed just above her left eye. Ten days…
Enlarge / Close-up of logo for Tesla Solar, a home solar power generation solution offered by Tesla Motors, San Ramon, California, March 28, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Getty ImagesTesla is planning to close 13 or 14 solar installation locations that were set up by SolarCity before Tesla purchased the company in 2016. Tesla…
have started to trickle out. Microsoft's development of Windows 10 for ARM has seen the company partner with chip company Qualcomm. The first Windows 10 on ARM machines use the Snapdragon 835 processor, with designs based on the Snapdragon 850 (a higher clocked Snapdragon 845 intended for laptops) expected later this year. Snapdragon 1000 will…
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Knuckles EV2 as an edge render. A labeled diagram of the controller's updates. A better angle to see the new "thumbpad" and joystick. Valve Software Valve's march toward launching new virtual reality video games—perhaps up to three of them—got more interesting on Thursday with the announcement of an update to the company's next official piece…
Enlarge / A shot of the leaked DevMenu tool that lets users upload custom profile pictures on the Switch (including ones much less safe for work than this one). a limited number of preset profile pictures (or custom-made Miis) for their online avatar on the Switch network. So at least one Reddit user was quite…
TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. Today's list is led by a deal on the popular Ecovacs Deebot N79 robot vacuum, which can be had for $160 with a discount code on Amazon. That's a good chunk off its usual price of $200. To be clear, the Deebot N79 is on the…
Turvey et al. 2018Primates, especially gibbons and other apes, are rare finds in the Asian fossil record. Fossils from the Pleistocene and Holocene are most often preserved in caves, where live gibbons almost never spend time. But humans preserved the remains of at least one gibbon for posterity by burying it in the tomb of…
