The FBI filed another brief today in its ongoing fight to get Apple’s help in unlocking an iPhone belonging to...
Apple lawyer claims latest FBI brief is “intended to smear” iPhone maker as court date nears
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Space for Europe and for all humankind: A brief history of the ESA
Rosetta's lander, Philae, is imaged shortly following its deployment in November 2014. Philae became the first-ever spacecraft to soft-land upon a comet's surface. (credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA)
In November 2014, a strange-looking little spider of a spacecraft caught the world's attention. It may have been one of the oddest-looking pioneers of all time, resembling a...
A brief chat with XKCD’s Randall Munroe—the Thing Explainer explainer
The cover of the book. (credit: XKCD)
HOUSTON—I'd guess that the majority of Ars readers are familiar with XKCD, the stick-figure Web comic drawn by former NASA contractor and engineer (and now Hugo award winner) Randall Munroe. It's rare for Ars to stop by a workplace to interview a source where there aren't XKCD comic strips festooning...