Enlarge / Giving a little joy. xJasonRogersx / Flickr One month ago, we asked readers to donate to a couple of good causes in our 2020 Charity Drive sweepstakes. And boy did you readers deliver. With the drive now complete and the giving all tallied, we can report that Ars Technica readers donated an incredible $ […]
If you’ve got a smart speaker like an Amazon Echo or Google Home in your house, there’s a good chance that you’ve come to rely on it in ways that you never expected, whether that’s setting alarms in the kitchen or controlling your smart home gadgets. But it’s probably not been quite such a meaningful […]
London’s Metropolitan Police Service has revealed that it supplied the images used in facial recognition scans carried out by the developers of the King’s Cross estate. The police force had previously said it had not been involved, but has now acknowledged that this was “incorrect”. London’s mayor has asked for a report to reveal exactly […]
I recently spat in a pot and sent my saliva off in an envelope for analysis. A growing number of people are willingly handing over their DNA to corporations in return for learning about their ancestry or to get health reports, Why are we prepared to make this trade with our most intimate of data […]
On the scale of bad ideas, giving alligators the drug ketamine and then monitoring them up close and personal to see how they respond to noises sounds like something you would read about in the Darwin Awards. In fact, it describes a recent science project carried out by researchers in the U.S. and Germany — […]
Imagine the worst, most traumatic content the internet has to offer. Now imagine a job that inundates you with it all day, every day. Such was the life of Selena Scola, a former Facebook content moderator who, along with 7,500 or so other people, collectively screened around 10 million posts a week. Now, after being […]