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Unsolved Mysteries: Quantum Leap’s Don Bellisario on the fate of Sam Beckett

Produced by Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Ron Douglas. Click here for transcript. (video link) Fresh from our talk with Warhammer remembrancer Dan Abnett on the unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer universe, we now turn our attention to a science fiction property with a bit less grimdark: the one where a polymath with an eidetic […]

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Unsolved mysteries of the Warhammer 40k universe with loremaster Dan Abnett

Shot by Adam Lance Garcia and edited by Justin Sloan. Click here for transcript. (video link) It’s been a while since we last got to do an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries,” our series wherein we ask creators to take us on a journey into the deeper and more mysterious aspects of their created universes (our […]

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SitRep: Is the F-35 now officially a failure?

(video link) The oft-maligned F-35 program has run into another bit of turbulence. For years, Congress has authorized the Defense Department to purchase more F-35 Lightning II aircraft than the services had made budget requests for. But that largess appears to be coming to an end—just as the US Air Force starts to look for […]

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Ars Technicast special edition, part 2: Open systems and the “joint force”

Enlarge / Fancy desks and cool blue lighting dominate this control room at Northrop Grumman’s Colshire location. (credit: Northrop Grumman) Welcome back to the second part of our two-part Ars Technicast special edition on the future of connectivity on the battlefield, presented in partnership with Northrop Grumman. In part one, we talked about the Internet […]

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Ars Technicast special edition, part 1: The Internet of Things goes to war

Enlarge / This adorable robot is one data point in the connected battlespace—the web of sensors that links together all the elements in a modern engagement. (credit: Leon Neal / Getty Images) Welcome to a special edition of the Ars Technicast! Ars has partnered with Northrop Grumman to produce a two-part series looking at the […]

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GamersNexus’ Steve Burke overclocks his YouTube channel’s best comments

Produced by Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Richard Trammell. Click here for transcript. (video link) GamersNexus has been a staple of our RSS feeds for more than a decade. The site has quickly become a must-read for anyone looking to build a PC, especially a gaming PC. And in addition to running that enterprise, Editor-in-Chief […]

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Ars online IT roundtable tomorrow: What’s the future of the data center?

Enlarge If you’re in IT, you probably remember the first time you walked into a real data center—not just a server closet, but an actual raised-floor data center, where the door wooshes open in a blast of cold air and noise and you’re confronted with rows and rows of racks, monolithic and gray, stuffed full […]

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Biomarkers are Exactly How cancers give their secrets

(video link) We are kicking off a brand new video show focusing on mathematics, and we are beginning with all the science of cancer therapy. There are far more choices for cancer therapy than there was, however, new therapies are frequently more successful since they just work in certain scenarios. Matching patients up with the […]

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Modern Vintage Gamer Speaks dev Information and hardware hackery

Created by Adam Lance Garcia, edited by Ron Douglas. Click here for transcript. (video link) We have hung out using Linus, created incoherent yelling sounds with Markiplier, chilled using LGR, also debriefed with all Scott Manley–but we have one final movie to discuss as we roll in the end of 2020. This time we are […]

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A Lengthy Blade Runner Meeting with Westwood co-founder Louis Castle

Click here to transcript. Since 2020 brings to a close, we have still got a couple extended-edition”War Stories” movies to launch, and that there has been some time coming. We had a terrific time {} to Westwood’s Louis Castle–a lot so we really got two movies from him rather than one. Along with talking about […]