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Retina, round two: Apple’s 15-inch 2013 Retina MacBook Pro reviewed
Graphics performance takes a step back even as everything else strides forward.
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24-hour car race helps automakers design your next hybrid vehicle
Tech behind past Audi and Toyota race cars may already be in your driveway.
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OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
No longer an apex predator, OS X takes some time for introspection.
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Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
Android is open—except for all the good parts.
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Windows 8.1: What a difference a year makes
Review: Not perfect, but 8.1 is an OS that actually works for desktop, mobile.
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Ubuntu 13.10 review: The Linux OS of the future remains a year away
Saucy Salamander has hatched, but Mir and next-gen Unity are still incubating.
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Review: In Windows 8.1, Mail is finally usable on tablets and desktops
Windows Mail is awful no more. Skype, Calendar, and People aren't bad either.
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Checking in on North America’s first video game college, 25 years later
Seattle's Digipen is more than just where the Portal guys went to school.
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Entrapped! When Craigslist predator stings go too far
Everyone thinks they've been "entrapped" by police, but some men actually are.
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The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX: A tablet apart
The right display, the right silicon, and, maybe, the right tablet.
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The latest virtualization showdown—Parallels Desktop 9 vs. VMware Fusion 6
A Start8 menu for Windows, IT security, and even improved gaming show up this year.
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Web Served, the finale: Congrats, you have a Web server! What’s next?
Analytics, DIY Twitter, e-mail hosting—we've got the hookup on neat stuff to try next.
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How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking
Crackers tap new sources to uncover "givemelibertyorgivemedeath" and other phrases.
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The Ars Frontrunners: 15 companies that led and still lead tech innovation
From Google (15 years old) to Corning (162): Companies that change our world.
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Review: Kaleidescape’s $3995 Cinema One is everything except affordable
Fancy movie machine rips, downloads, and catalogs your disc collections.
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How the feds took down the Dread Pirate Roberts
What he wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak.
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Forget Venus and Mars, we’re beginning to understand gender behavior on Earth
We may never know every subtle difference, but gender research is coming a long way.
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New CPUs, faster Wi-Fi, same flaws: Apple’s 2013 iMac reviewed
Apple delivers improvements, but not the ones the iMac needs most.
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General Motors is literally tearing its competition to bits
...so its 3D scanning can reverse-engineer others' vehicles, increasing speed to market.
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Meet the machines that steal your phone’s data
Keeping tabs on civilian phones? There's more than one way to skin that cat.
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Review: With the iPhone 5S, Apple lays groundwork for a brighter future
Touch ID and the 64-bit A7 are deceptively large steps in the iPhone's evolution.
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Blue, green, yellow, white, and pink are the new black: The iPhone 5C reviewed
Take one iPhone 5, remove $100, and add one rainbow of plastic. Market aggressively.
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The life and death of Buran, the USSR shuttle built on faulty assumptions
After concluding the US Shuttle was a weapons platform, the USSR wanted its own.
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More than trading laptops for guns, IT entrepreneur aims to rewire Baltimore
Schools as an IT pro pipeline; student-run data centers bringing Wi-Fi to areas in need.
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iOS 7, thoroughly reviewed
Apple's latest mobile OS is simultaneously transformative and incremental.