T-Mobile plans to give its customers a chance to own company stock as part of its latest Un-carrier move, set to be announced Monday morning, according to a VentureBeat report,...
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The connected car may be the dumbest idea ever, but it’s not going away
As you might imagine, we at Ars get bombarded with PR pitches about connected cars. Devices that plug into your car's...
NASA will keep its eye on a trio of potentially habitable planets just 40 light-years away
Three potentially...
Jon Zimmerman, CEO of Seattle startup Front Desk, passes away suddenly at 47 years old
Jon Zimmerman, the CEO of Seattle startup Front Desk, passed away suddenly Monday of...
Mac extends its lead over Linux among software developers, chipping away at Windows
A new survey of more than 55,000 coders shows Mac OS X distancing itself from Linux in a ranking of the most popular desktop operating systems for software developers, with Apple’s desktop environment chipping away at the lead Microsoft once held solidly.
The Stack Overflow Developer Survey asked...
Report: Apple spending up to $600M on Google Cloud Platform, moving away from Amazon Web Services
Apple is stuck between two major competitors when it comes to obtaining cloud space. Historically, the iPhone maker has used Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to store data and, while analysts have predicted it would turn away from AWS soon, heading over to Google didn’t quite...
Don’t take away our rights: Small group rallies outside Apple Store against federal government
There was no loud chanting and no ear-piercing megaphone. In fact, the mood was relatively low-key at a rally outside the University Village Apple Store on Tuesday evening.
But for a small group of 15 or so that gathered to show their support for Apple, the...
San Francisco politician’s iPhone snatched away, but he negotiates for it back
Turns out, if your phone gets stolen, you might be able to negotiate with your mugger. At least that’s a strategy that worked for San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener last Friday night as dusk was falling around 5:30 pm.
The local politician told Ars that he was walking down 16th St. from...
Microsoft to give back some of the free OneDrive storage it’s taking away
Microsoft will be giving back some, but not all, of the OneDrive storage that it was planning to take away from users of its cloud storage service.
In early November, the company made a surprising announcement to OneDrive users in two parts. First, the unlimited storage that came with Office 365 subscriptions was being cut back to 1TB. Second, the free storage tier was cut...
Amazon opens ‘Community Banana Stand’ at Seattle HQ to give away free fruit
Whoever says Amazon doesn’t give away free food clearly hasn’t visited the company’s campus this week. Amazon has opened a “Community Banana Stand,” which is exactly what you would imagine. The stand is open every day between 8 a.m. and about 3:30 p.m., with free bananas...