Japanese railway company plans to sell data from e-ticket records
Decision is met with anger at what some prominent commentators call a privacy concern.
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UK expands search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Eleven institutions in the UK turn up the dial to hear the aliens.
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Mysterious radio bursts come from outside our galaxy
A huge surge of power in just a few milliseconds and then, nothing.
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Paper helmets could make cycle share schemes safer, say creators
Protect your head on the fly with these super-cheap helmets.
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Explosions in the sky: Ars readers react
America's Independence Day was this week, so the Ars staff had fireworks in mind.
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BBC realizes the obvious, puts 3D plans on hold
People can't be bothered to watch in 3D, even when they have the hardware.
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Venezuela and Nicaragua make offers of asylum to Snowden
The intelligence leaker remains holed up in the Moscow airport.
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Samsung and Jay-Z give the Internet a master’s class in how not to make an app
We install the most needlessly invasive Android app ever.
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Where the Wild Lawyers Are: knocking sequels off Kickstarter
UK writer and illustrator's proposed sequel gets hit with copyright takedown.
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Bad kitty! “Rookie mistake” in Cryptocat chat app makes cracking a snap
Programming flaw makes it trivial to bypass crypto used by activists and journalists.
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Verizon would end “century of regulation” by killing wireline phone, says NY AG
AG thinks Verizon should be fined $100,000 per day for pushing wireless plans.
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Optical transistor switches states by trapping a single photon
When switched off, the gate photon can be retrieved, too.
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France also scoops up phone, Internet metadata on its citizens
"Perfectly illegal," says newspaper.
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Nintendo president defends region locking
Statements came before grassroots movement calling for policy reversal.
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Microsoft: Xbox One advertising will integrate with Kinect
Console built with interactive ad experiences in mind.
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Thinking beyond temperature when setting carbon emissions goals
Meeting the target of 2°C warming might not prevent bad things from happening.
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Bing-powered Windows 8.1 heralds a better, smarter Microsoft
Deep integration is proof positive that the company is actually working together.
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Teen remains jailed after violent comments posted on Facebook
Parents protest, claim their son's comments were followed by "LOL" and "J/K."
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Gallery: The International Space Station flight control room
A selection of behind-the-scenes images from ISS Mission Control.
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How NASA steers the International Space Station around space junk
Jockeying 400 tons of space station around debris ain't like dusting crops, boy.
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Rocket’s red glare: Five spectacular (but harmless) US space launch failures
Russia definitely doesn't have a monopoly on giant exploding cargo rockets.
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