Enlarge / Hurricane Ida had a distinct eye as it approached the Louisiana coast on Sunday morning. NOAA Hurricane Ida roared into the southern US state of Louisiana on Sunday at 11:55 am local time (16:55 UTC) with sustained winds
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Linux/BSD Command Line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep
As a relatively isolated junior sysadmin, I remember seeing answers on Experts Exchange and later Stack Exchange that baffled me. Authors and commenters might chain 10 commands together with pipes and angle brackets—something I never did in day-to-day system administration.
The modern challenge of gaming without a strong Internet connection
Enlarge / More and more these days, your ability to play new games depends on the quality of your Internet connection. For many players these days, the video game industry’s increasing reliance on online connections is an afterthought. But for
How game makers are catering to disabled players
Enlarge / The high-contract backgrounds in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart are just one of the more prominent examples of game designs tuned for the visually impaired. According to a recent study, more than 2 percent of the US population
A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”
Enlarge / Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm, the internet may not. Jean Claude Moschetti | REA | REDUX Scientists have known for decades that an extreme solar storm, or coronal mass ejection, could
The 2021 BMW X5 xDrive45e—a big battery gives this hybrid a useful range
The BMW X5 xDrive45e is a 50 mpg plug-in hybrid SUV. BMW took much more flattering photos of the X5 xDrive45e than I was able to, but the car’s proportions are still a bit too large for me. BMW You
Please stop adding more lanes to busy highways—it doesn’t help
Enlarge / The intersection of Interstates 10 and 610 in Houston, Texas, during evening rush hour. Getty Images You often hear people say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different
Pixel 5a teardown shows a surprising amount of metal
After prying off the screen and a graphite cover over the battery, the main guts of the Pixel 5a look like this. Google is still using a combination of tabs and these rectangular clips. The main side of the motherboard,
Myst remake impressions: Handsome island touch-ups, launch-week woes
Enlarge / Welcome back, yet again, to Myst Island. Cyan Worlds, Inc. This week, eight months after a touched-up version of 1993’s Myst landed exclusively on the Oculus Quest VR system, the same remake has been further touched up and made
The weekend’s best deals: Samsung microSD cards, gaming chairs, and more
Ars Technica Our latest Dealmaster includes a nice one-day sale on Samsung microSD cards, as the 256GB and 512GB variants of the company’s Evo Select card are down to $28 and $60 at Amazon, respectively. The former discount is the best
Samurai-themed sci-fi flick It’s A Summer Film! expertly slices expectations
The trailer for It’s a Summer Film! When’s the last time you had pure fun at the movies? For a lot of us, it has probably been at least 1.5 years, given the whole global health pandemic that has been
Vaccine mandates work, especially when they’re done right
Mario Tama | Getty Images On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration gave formal, full approval to the Covid-19 vaccine made by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech. You might’ve already gotten a dose of it, of course; millions
Why Windows 11 has such strict hardware requirements, according to Microsoft
Microsoft Windows 11 promises to refine window management, run Android apps, and to unify the look and feel of the operating system’s built-in apps after years of frustrating hodgepodge. But none of that matters if your computer can’t run the
You’ll be able to run Windows 11 on older PCs—if you install the update manually
Enlarge / Microsoft won’t officially support running Windows 11 on old PCs, but the company won’t stand in the way, either. Andrew Cunningham Microsoft officially announced some small additions to Windows 11’s official CPU support list today, along with additional
Man robbed of 16 bitcoin hunts down suspects, sues their parents
Andrew Schober was almost all-in on cryptocurrency. In 2018, 95 percent of his net wealth was invested in the digital tokens, which he hoped he could sell later to buy a home and support his family. But then disaster struck.