Lyft Back In Court Next Week
Lyft still has some work to do ahead of its efforts to launch in New York, but the ridesharing startup is definitely making progress.

July 20, 2014 at 4:28PM
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The World’s Worst Computer Viruses Illustrated
Writer and curator Bas van de Poel’s Computer Virus Catalog interprets the worst viruses in computer history as glitchy, MS-DOS-esque artworks.

July 20, 2014 at 12:15PM
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Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers
A Freedom of Information Act request turns up 9 years of records, including plaintext credit card numbers.

July 20, 2014 at 8:10AM
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The New Bionic Sports of the Future Transhumanist Olympics
A quiet revolution is happening in competitive sports. Some futurists think that in just decades, humans will sprint faster than horses, people will shoot guns with near-perfect accuracy using bionic eyes and athletes will swim entire races without taking a breath.

July 19, 2014 at 3:56PM
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Alleged iPhone 6 Screen Gets The Sandpaper Test
Seems as though the screen isn’t pure sapphire, but it’s a great deal tougher than the 5S’s screen.

July 19, 2014 at 11:02AM
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Some Universities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science
One of the reasons so few women work in tech is that few choose to study computer science or engineering. At a few top college programs, though, that appears to be changing.

July 19, 2014 at 7:00AM
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Study: Teens Who Text a Lot Are More Likely to Have Sex
A recent study found a correlation between the number of texts teens send per day, and how likely they are to be sexually active.

July 18, 2014 at 3:25PM
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Going down the uncanny valley of robot fellatio
First, the wheel. Then, the printing press. Now, the robot blowjob. We’ve finally reached the zenith of human technological advancement.

July 18, 2014 at 2:13PM
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A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying
The Internet is littered with burgeoning email encryption schemes aimed at thwarting NSA spying. Many of them are focused on solving the usability issues that have plagued complicated encryption schemes like PGP for years. But a new project called Dark Mail plans to go further: to hide your metadata.

July 18, 2014 at 12:49PM
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We tested every ghost-hunting app in the haunted buildings of New York
Let’s say that you’re looking to track, communicate with, and potentially even bust some ghosts. How are you, a layperson with no background in phantasmology, supposed to do such a thing?

July 18, 2014 at 11:40AM
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