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  1. “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C

    Today, C may be a lingua franca among programmers. This is its (abridged) history.

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  2. Cyberpunk 2077 is equal parts beautiful and messy

    20 hours in, Night City is a majestic masterpiece with a lot of rough edges.

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  3. Win laptops, smartwatches, and more in the 2020 Ars Technica Charity Drive

    Help yourself to prizes by helping us raise money for good causes.

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  4. Meet the new generation of puzzle-makers bringing mystery to your door

    It’s 2020: Do your museum heists, archeological digs, and alchemy tests from home.

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  5. All the best Cyber Monday 2020 deals we can find [Updated]

    We've sifted through the junk to pick out the tech deals most worth your time.

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  6. Apple’s M1 MacBook Air has that Apple Silicon magic

    Review: No piece of hardware is perfect, but man, this is a hell of a laptop.

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  7. All the best Black Friday 2020 deals we can find [Updated]

    We've pored over hundreds of Black Friday offers to find the best deals for you.

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  8. Want to offset your carbon footprint? Here’s what you need to know

    Don’t just count on planted trees to offset your next flight.

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  9. How a Thanksgiving Day gag ruffled feathers in Mission Control

    “I don't remember ever being so nervous or upset about something as I was then.”

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  10. Xbox Series X/S vs. PlayStation 5: Our launch-month verdict

    Which new console is worth your hundreds? Our direct comparison offers an answer.

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  11. “We are giddy”—interviewing Apple about its Mac silicon revolution

    Craig Federighi, Johny Srouji, and Greg Joswiak tell us the Apple Silicon story.

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  12. Mac mini and Apple Silicon M1 review: Not so crazy after all

    The M1 is amazingly fast. More importantly, it's a compatibility slam dunk.

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  13. AMD Radeon RX 6800, 6800XT review: The 1440p GPU beasts you’ve been craving

    Equivalent Nvidia GPUs beaten in significant cases—but not in ray tracing.

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  14. A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with CPU charts galore

    Intel vs. AMD is a tortoise vs. hare race—but which company is which?

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  15. The old way of handing out corporate hardware doesn’t work anymore

    It’s no longer just about issuing a laptop—the world and our requirements have changed.

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  16. macOS 11.0 Big Sur: The Ars Technica review

    Yes, you read that right—Mac OS X (or macOS 10?) is no more.

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  17. Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely

    Wasting money on things like mmWave means the Pixel 5 offers little over the Pixel 4a.

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  18. PlayStation 5 review: Not just a more-powerful PS4

    Quick-loading and interesting new features meet more marginal visual improvements.

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  19. Xbox Series X/S review: Beautiful, powerful—but whatcha gonna play?

    Finally, you can enjoy our first lengthy tests of the weirdly positioned $299 Series S.

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  20. Dr. Strangenet—or, how I stopped worrying and embraced the WFH IT apocalypse

    There's no more perimeter, everybody's Wi-Fi is broken, and yet...we're still working.

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  21. After 20 years of service, the Space Station flies into an uncertain future

    “We do have to think about the fact that 20 years is a long time.”

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  22. iPhone 12 and 12 Pro double review: Playing Apple’s greatest hits

    The iPhone 12 is so good, it’s hard to recommend the iPhone 12 Pro.

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  23. War Stories: How Nintendo sold the NES to a skeptical country

    Convincing the public to love home video games again after Atari's dramatic fall.

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  24. Nvidia RTX 3070 review: AMD’s stopwatch just started ticking a lot louder

    Ahead of Radeon RX 6000 series reveal, we examine Nvidia’s new mid-high RTX card.

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  25. How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures

    To mock the Communist regime, Czechoslovak kids made illicit video games supporting protests.

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  26. Blast off with Scott Manley as he discusses his top 1,000 YouTube comments

    Come and hang out with one of Ars Technica's favorite space & science YouTubers!

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  27. The Internet is full of business cats: Dealing with the breakdown of the work/home divide

    Finding the right balance between collaboration and privacy is suddenly critical.

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  28. Surface Duo review—Orphaned Windows hardware makes a poor Android device

    Microsoft's first Android phone has a lot of problems.

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  29. Xbox Series X unleashed: Our unrestricted preview

    In good news, we finally have a stunning 120fps game. But not much else, games-wise.

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  30. Amazon Prime Day 2020: All the best tech deals we can find (Updated)

    We dug through more than 8,000 Prime Day deals to find the ones worth your time.

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  31. Amnesia and Soma creator Thomas Grip explains how he makes games terrifying

    Welcome to "Scare Tactics," a new video series focusing on the horror gaming genre.

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  32. The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

    Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work.

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  33. Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

    Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.

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  34. Virgin Orbit has a unique launch capability, but it has come at a high price

    “I don’t see how that business case closes.”

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  35. Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space?

    The updates don't come every spring and fall, but space operating systems keep evolving.

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  36. iOS and iPadOS 14 review: iPhone transformation, iPad iteration

    Yes, you can finally change your default email app.

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