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How archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE

Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing

Aaarr matey! Life on a 17th century pirate ship was less chaotic than you think

A cat video highlighted a big year for lasers in space

How watching beavers from space can help drought-ridden areas bounce back

TV Technica 2023: These were our favorite shows and binges of the year

Chinese smartphone company says it wants to build a Porsche challenger

Otherworldly mini-Yellowstone found in the deep sea

Researchers come up with better idea to prevent AirTag stalking

2023 was the year that GPUs stood still

Injection of “smart insulin” regulates blood glucose levels for one week

Getting to the bottom of how red flour beetles absorb water through their butts

Ars Technica’s best video games of 2023

Watch sand defy gravity and flow uphill thanks to “negative friction”

Elon Musk will see you in court: The top Twitter and X Corp. lawsuits of 2023

Science lives here: take a virtual tour of the Royal Institution in London

People can tell what you want to know when you shake wrapped Christmas gifts

The 20 most-read stories of 2023

Film Technica: Our favorite movies of 2023

Corvids seem to handle temporary memories the way we do

PAX Unplugged 2023: How indie devs build and sell new board games

US agency tasked with curbing risks of AI lacks funding to do the job

Laptops’ 2023 quantum leap: 5 computers we’ll still be talking about in 2024

Study: “Smarter” dogs think more like humans to overcome their biases

Daily Telescope: A simple shot of the Milky Way high above France and Spain

What would you do with a used Rolls-Royce Olympus engine from Concorde?

EU will hold 3 major porn sites to same regulations as Meta, X

Daily Telescope: A colorful Christmas tree in the night sky

Dark matter might be keeping an even darker secret

Google’s loss to Epic Games leads to $700M settlement with users, states

Hurricane Larry dumped 100,000 microplastics per sq. meter on Newfoundland each day

Daily Telescope: James Webb zooms in on Uranus

An Interview with Cities: Skylines 2 developer’s CEO, Mariina Hallikainen

A song of hype and fire: The 10 biggest AI stories of 2023

Love at first ride: The Specialized Turbo Creo 2 Comp gravel e-bike

How Microsoft’s cybercrime unit has evolved to combat increased threats

This “smoking gun” killed the McDonald’s ice cream hackers’ startup

These AI-generated news anchors are freaking me out

Elon Musk told bankers they wouldn’t lose any money on Twitter purchase

Daily Telescope: One of the most stunning Andromeda photos I’ve ever seen

Rocket Report: Signs of life from Blue Origin; SpaceX preps next Starship

Cadillac announces fourth new electric SUV due in 2026 : The Vistiq

I’ve used a foldable laptop for a month, and I’m ready to return to a clamshell