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Enlarge / Residents wear protective masks while waiting to be vaccinated at a West Virginia United Health System Covid-19 vaccine clinic in Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S., on Thursday, March 11, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) The US logged another 4 million or so vaccinations Friday, bringing the total doses administered in the country over 200 […]
Enlarge / Thank you for giving me something to look forward to, DC Comics. (credit: Nathan Mattise) Warning: Though we’ll take great pains not to spoil anything important from DC’s ongoing Rorschach comic, some of the story’s events will be lightly referenced, given this is a review of sorts. After the magnetic nine-episode run of HBO’s Watchmen back […]
Enlarge / Rendering of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle on the surface of the Moon. (credit: NASA) In an extraordinary announcement on Friday, NASA said that it has selected SpaceX and its Starship vehicle to serve as the lunar lander for its Artemis Program. This is NASA’s plan to return humans to the Moon later this decade. […]
The front of the 2020 27-inch iMac. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Apple’s low-end, 21.5-inch iMac appears to be in short supply at Apple Stores and in Apple’s online storefront in the United States. The shortage could be a hint of an imminent change to the iMac lineup just a few days before Apple hosts a […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A publicly available software development tool contained malicious code that stole the authentication credentials that apps need to access sensitive resources, in the latest revelation of a supply chain attack that has the potential to backdoor the networks of countless organizations. The Codecov Bash Uploader contained the backdoor from late January […]
Enlarge / The Arkansas state capitol. (credit: Daniel Schwen) Last week, the Arkansas state House of Representatives passed a bill that would amend state education law to allow teachers in public schools to teach creationism as “a theory of how the earth came to exist.” As it stands, the act promotes blatantly unconstitutional behavior as […]
Enlarge (credit: peng song / Getty) Dogecoin, a blockchain-based digital currency named for a meme about an excitable canine, has seen its price rise by a factor of five over the last week. The price spike has made it one of the world’s 10 most valuable cryptocurrencies, with a market capitalization of $45 billion. Understanding […]
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) Today’s Dealmaster includes notable discounts on a couple of Ars-approved board games, with the avian-themed Wingspan down to $46 and the massive dungeon crawler Gloomhaven down to $89 at Amazon. Both deals are within $4 of the lowest prices we’ve tracked and a good ways below the typical street price we see for each […]
Enlarge / Elias “Jamppi” Olkkonen, seen here at Dreamhack’s 2019 Winter Open, may be allowed back in Valve-sponsored events despite a VAC ban. (credit: Stephanie Lindgren / Dreamhack) If you know just one thing about the Valve’s Anti-Cheat system (VAC), you probably know that a ban issued through it lasts forever. As Valve’s support page […]
Enlarge The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ruled that Google misled Android users over its collection of location data. This ruling is in reference to the “Location History” controversy from a few years ago. The Associated Press reported at the time that turning off the Location History setting does not disable all location-tracking features across every […]