http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/x58R8NsYkds/http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/Ars TechnicaArs Technica7261 In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine today, two doctors from the University of Michigan described how they saved an infant...

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http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/tqHSLTHdUPo/http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/Ars TechnicaArs Technica7261 Kyle Orland UPDATE: The original version of this story misstated the 300,000-server capacity for Xbox One’s cloud computing...

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Sears! Once the catalog king, then an eminent brick-and-mortar retailer, and now, perhaps, a real-estate holding company that leases out space for computers that power the cloud. Data Center Knowledge reported today that Sears had created a new unit — Ubiquity Critical Environments...

Click here to avoid getting devoured by this guy. (Shutterstock/counterspell) So here you are, once again, on the Internet. (Hello, there. Welcome back, friend.) Here you are, another Norm within the Cheers that is the World Wide Web, hanging out in the place where everybody (or, more...

Marc Whitten stands in front of an army of servers (Microsoft). Watching the reveal of the Xbox One this week, one particular claim about Microsoft’s new console caught my ear. Marc Whitten, the executive in charge of Xbox Live, the company’s online gaming network, charted its...

The McKinsey Global Institute specializes in measuring the unmeasurable. Who else has the audacity to appraise the Internet but MGI, who slapped a $8 trillion price tag on the global digital economy. In its latest report, MGI set out to answer an even more unanswerable question: What will be...

We’ve previously shown you how to add keyboard shortcuts to symbols in Word 2013 to make it easier to insert them into your documents. Keyboard shortcuts can be added to symbols in Excel as well, but there’s no direct method. We’ll show you a workaround using the AutoCorrect...

Android’s openness is a big reason for its success, but cellular carriers and phone manufacturers often use this openness to make the experience worse for its users. Android’s openness gives carriers and device manufacturers the freedom to do bad things. The Android platform is...

Are you ready for a fun and challenging puzzler? Then Flow Free is the game you are looking for! Flow Free tests your ability to correctly figure out how to connect the dots with pipes, all without breaking other pipes or leaving any squares on the game board unused. It starts off simple...

What Is The Only Day Of The Week That Derives Its Name From Roman Mythology? 1) Wednesday 2) Monday 3) Saturday 4) Friday Think you know the answer?      Geek Trivia: What Is The Only Day Of The Week That Derives Its Name From Roman...

One problem that many new users have run into with Windows 8 is being able to navigate around or use the new system with ease. This new 36 page guide from Microsoft will be a welcome relief to new users and a helpful resource to share for those who are often asked for help by others with...

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http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/OrFxtTn0SCs/http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/Ars TechnicaArs Technica7261 Last year The New York Times unleashed its vision of digitally native storytelling with “Snow Fall.” The piece broke away from standard...

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http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/QPICAmbSqiA/http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/Ars TechnicaArs Technica7261 Apple is yet again pursuing patent infringement claims against Samsung (and Samsung is counter-suing Apple too). The pair’s newest patent battle...

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/poOA8Y3qP4M/http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/Ars TechnicaArs Technica7261 On the heels of the Syrian Electronic Army compromising a number of high-profile accounts—including those of the Associated Press, The Guardian,...

1) Amtrak suddenly has much better Wi-Fi service on some routes — starting with the Acela I am taking right now from DC to NY. Of course I admit that griping about the speed and reliability of a (free) Wi-Fi service, on a moving train, epitomizes having too few real problems to...

A Ghost Army halftrack with a speaker mounted on the back for “sonic deception” (National Archives) Bill Blass was one of them. So was Ellsworth Kelly. And Arthur Singer. And Art Kane. Before these men embarked on the artistic careers they would become known for, they served...

In late 1999, Microsoft created an ad for its upcoming ‘Microsoft Reader’ software. The headline blared, “This is a story about the future of reading,” and underneath the story about the company’s actual product, the marketers inserted a timeline based on...

Astronauts living on board the International Space Station managed to get these dramatic pictures of the Pavlof Volcano as it erupted over the weekend. The volcano began acting up last Monday, the 13th, its first eruption since 2007. Images of volcanoes erupting from space are often a lot...

Whether you’ve outgrown your college era email address and you want a professional one, or you want to change your firstname.maiden account to firstname.marriedname one, we’ve got you covered with a start-to-finish Google migration guide.      ...

Roaming data can cost as much as 300 times the price of domestic data, leading to bill shock. Some of the more extreme examples of roaming bills have been for tens of thousands of dollars. Carriers have to negotiate roaming contrasts amongst each other, and they’re generally free to add...

You can access Firefox’s configuration menus, options, and hidden features via “chrome://” URLs. If you’re the curious sort, you might be wondering why it’s not “firefox://” instead. Read on as we dig in. Today’s Question & Answer session...

Which University Is The Only One With An Alumni Chapter On The Moon? 1) The University of Michigan 2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3) The University of California 4) Harvard Think you know the answer?      Geek Trivia: Which...

Loyal users have been waiting a long time to see some major updates at Flickr and as of yesterday their wait is over. Flickr now sports a new layout, the Android app for the service has been redesigned, and the amount of free storage has been increased to an outstanding 1 TB! If you have not...

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/9IcMIGfI_dk/http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/Ars TechnicaArs Technica7261 The Xbox One is full of technology and after its big reveal, Microsoft talked a little about what’s going into the console, giving some tidbits of...

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/Wp5rsruiZWc/http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/Ars TechnicaArs Technica7261 Engadget There have been rumors of Qualcomm’s MEMS-based Mirasol display for years now. Once advertised as the...