Oracle loses massive fair use case against Google, Android

For the past six years, Oracle has pursued copyright and patent infringement claims against Google over the use of Java APIs within Android.

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A First Look at America’s Supergun

DAHLGREN, Va.—A warning siren bellowed through the concrete bunker of a top-secret Naval facility where U.S. military engineers prepared to demonstrate a weapon for which there is little defense.

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Inside the Pentagon's Trillion Dollar F-35 Embarrassment

It's not news that the Pentagon's fated F-35 program is riddled with dilemmas. For more than a decade, it's bumped into roadblock after roadblock. When the planes aren't grounded, they're forbidden to fly in bad weather, combat missions or at night.

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Feel Old

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New Evidence Suggests a Fifth Fundamental Force of Nature

We all know about the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong forces between atoms. But could there be a fifth force still waiting to be discovered? A new experiment performed in Hungary suggests this may very well be the case.

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It Takes Just Four Minutes To Explain the Entire Universe

In need of a quick refresher course on, well, the science of pretty much everything? Here’s a cheeky, irreverent summation of the universe in just four minutes from Exub1a, YouTube purveyor of “spacey stuff and existential angst.”

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TSA head of security 'removed from post'

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration head of security is out of a job. TSA won't say he's fired, but it sure sounds like he's fired.

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What Makes Calvin and Hobbes So Special?

Calvin and Hobbes should be everyone’s favorite comic strip. But what makes it so special? Kaptain Kristian dives in to explain why the strip is so good. The argument centers around the idea that Calvin and Hobbes puts art before commerce, as all art should.

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Watch Penn and Teller anti-anti-vaccine rant

Penn and Teller's classic takedown of anti-vax bullshittery. And if you don't know, now you know.

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NASA films Mercury crossing the sun's surface

You don't have to wait for years to watch Mercury crossing the sun if you missed NASA's livestream earlier. The agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured the planet's transit across the star's fiery surface on film and has even uploaded a time-lapse video of the images on YouTube.

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FCC wants to know why mobile security patches take so long

A number of critical security flaws have hit mobile devices in recent months, prompting device makers and service providers alike to issue timely patches. Sometimes those fixes take a while to reach affected handsets, and the FCC wants to know more about the process.

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MIT researchers publish a legend for alien hunting

If alien life is nearby and intelligent, finding it likely won’t be a problem for long. Intelligent life is assumed to always work its way toward some form of radiation-producing technology that we will someday see and recognize.

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Mario makes leap to Minecraft

The release of yet another bit of cosmetic DLC for one specific version of Minecraft isn't usually the kind of thing we'd take the time to write about at Ars. But the latest skin pack for the game caught our eye because it marks the first time that characters from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros.

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How IBM’s new five-qubit universal quantum computer works

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, IBM gave an unwary world its first publicly accessible quantum computer. You might be worried that you can tear up your passwords and throw away your encryption, for all is now lost.

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