The Interior Department is preparing a new agency policy that would drastically limit the use of unmanned aerial vehicles made overseas, The Wall Street Journal reports. The new policy is due to be formally announced…
General Motors will invest $2.2 billion to build…
Enlarge / General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant used to build the Volt PHEV; soon, it will build BEV pickups. General Motors On Monday morning, General Motors President Mark Reuss announced that GM will renovate its…
After a decade of drama, Apple is ready…
Enlarge / Safari is the default browser on all of Apple's devices. Release notes for the latest version of the Safari Technology Preview, essentially the beta version of the macOS Web browser, explicitly state that…
Ars readers gave more than $33,000 in 2019…
Enlarge / Giving a little joy. Last month, we asked readers to donate to our 2019 Charity Drive sweepstakes. Now that the giving is done and the results have been tallied, we can report that…
Breathing Techniques: A Guide to the Science and…
Incorporate Breathing Exercises into Daily Life. Help yourself to neutralize stress and regain your energy: Don't be mistaken and think that in our Digital Age only Internet and digital communication matters. Far from! Your…
Instagram is taking down posts supporting slain Iranian…
Enlarge / Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in 2013. MEHDI GHASEMI/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images Instagram has been removing posts supporting Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader who was killed by an American strike on January 3, CNN…
Indian Supreme Court finds 150-day Internet blackout in…
Enlarge / Indian prime minister Narendra Modi addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 2019. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Indian region of Kashmir has had most Internet service blacked out since August. The government of Narendra…
Firefox gets patch for critical 0-day that’s being…
Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox that fixes an actively exploited zero-day that could allow attackers to take control of users' computers. In an advisory, Mozilla rated the vulnerability critical and said it…
Firefox 72 blocks fingerprinting scripts by default, rethinks…
Enlarge / Mozilla's office in San Francisco. Mozilla has released Firefox 72, an update that, like many recent browser updates, focuses on privacy features—specifically, ways to deal with fingerprinting, and a new way of managing…
Apple and GPU-maker Imagination make nice in new…
Apple discusses the iPad Pro's A12X CPU and GPU on stage at its October 30, 2018 event. Valentina Palladino Imagination Technologies, which used to provide the graphics processors for Apple's mobile devices, has entered into…