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Holiday reading: 19 book recommendations from the Ars staff

Enlarge / Grab a hot drink, snuggle up, and let the staff of the Ars Orbiting HQ find you a good book to read. (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) With the holiday season kicking in and many people about to find themselves flush with downtime, we thought we’d try to answer a perennial question: […]

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The best Mario games ever made

Enlarge / Mario loves us. We love Mario. (credit: BEHROUZ MEHRI / Getty Images) Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher has a rule: If you have a dumb, fun conversation in the Ars Slack that lasts for more than 10 minutes, it’s probably worth turning that conversation into some kind of article. And that’s how a weekday […]