Google’s app store deal with Spotify won’t placate critics

Lidar reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centers

Enlarge (credit: 21st Century Fox) An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, which made the data public. When University of Arizona archaeologist Takeshi Inomata and his colleagues examined the area, which […]

Rifftrax: The Game serves the fun, will make you crow in laughter

Enlarge (credit: Wide Right Games) At Ars Technica, we’re fans of the Jackbox Party Pack series, which gathers friends around a TV to play social, joke-filled minigames that revolve around cracking jokes and voting on the group’s favorite gags. Really, any game that turns the trading of jokes into a group contest is up our […]

Two government officials what many Enormous Tech critics have contended for decades: Lawmakers and regulators have done a terrible job of handling monopolies

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust committee David Cicilline and Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra talked in an electronic event hosted by the Western Economic Liberties Project, a lobbying team focused on combating monopoly power. They implied that the U.S. wants new laws to stop employers from engaging in anticompetitive behaviour in addition to […]