Expand / Artist’s concept of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample in the asteroid Bennu. (charge: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona) Hundreds of engineers and scientists have worked for the greater part of two years to reach this stage. Nowadays, their passenger-van sized spacecraft is now ready for the big moment, moving near an asteroid around so […]
The Orville: New Horizons returns, after a nearly three-year hiatus, to its new home on Hulu. We’re unabashed fans of The Orville here at Ars Technica, and like everyone else, we’ve keenly felt the absence of the series following its explosive S2 finale way back in April 2019. We thought we were getting a third […]
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) In the interest of combating ransomware and other malware, Microsoft is planning a major change in how its Office software handles macros: when files that use macros are downloaded from the Internet, those macros will now be disabled entirely by default. Current versions of the software offer an alert banner on these […]
