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We're revisiting our op-ed on Pluto demotion:

DOOM (video game) inside DOOM?! ‪#‎Inception‬

"COM1, COM3 are on port 0x3F8 & use IRQ4," I whispered to myself. "COM2, COM4 are on 0x2F8 & use IRQ3."

As reader @wbm312 sees it, "After reading this, I'm convinced almost everything I randomly Google—'cat chirping'—is from a content mill."

All those "new Ice Age" headlines?

"The 'reasoning' behind these is that a new study suggests the Sun is headed for a severe low in its activity, and the last time that happened coincided with a cold period called the Little Ice Age. Ergo, another one is on the way.

*Pretty much every aspect of this reasoning is wrong.*"

All you need to work in government IT? A (fake) bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and a (fake) master's degree in technology management from the University of Central Florida.

Ellen Pao: "A large portion of the Internet audience enjoys edgy content and the behavior of the more extreme users; it wants to see the bad with the good, so it becomes harder to get rid of the ugly. But to attract more mainstream audiences and bring in the big-budget advertisers, you must hide or remove the ugly."

Steve Huffman: "Well, only one of us actually works here."

In Vegas? This weekend, Ars is on stage (literally) to test magical audiophile Ethernet cables once and for all

With Best Buy (and likely others), unsubscribing from e-mail marketing "may take up to 10 business days---err, forever, for this change to take effect.”

Pubs are fighting back against NFL Sunday Ticket.

Not some pyro-happy Bon Jovi concert.

Feel confident saying the audio quality on this phone should be excellent.

The ‪#‎ISS‬ had a near-miss with space debris today. Don't fret—NASA knows how to deal with all orbiting ‪#‎spacejunk‬.

Good: Feds bust a huge, Tor-hidden child porn ring
Questionable: ...how did they do it, again?

She took the Eisners—and the larger comic world—by storm (at 23-years-old no less, via Vanity Fair)

Commenter: "Dear god, it's like ComicCon for climate cranks. Cosplay CO2."

That mess of an Arkham game for PC? Won't be ready 'til September.

"Pentaquark-charmonium" states FTW

As reader @iCowboy_UK points out on Twitter, "Price ($/kWh) of lithium batteries for EVs is plummeting towards competitiveness with petrol engines..."

It's not everyday you can type the phrase "algorithmic knitting" (thanks MAKE Magazine).

‪#‎TBT‬ Yesterday was the NES's 32nd birthday (when it turned 30, we penned this retrospective)

So... we've been gifted an Apple II Plus. Any ideas of what we should try?

Confirming what we already knew—it's tough to keep up Moore's Law

Uber could be suspended from operating in California.

That limited field of view set to doom the HoloLens? Pfffft.

PlayStation Mobile was Sony's attempt to open up the closed PlayStation Vita game store to a more wide-open selection of independent games, ala Google Play or the iOS App Store.

After today, you can no longer buy games through this service.

In Dubai, folks will soon charge their phones via solar-powered 103 faux-palms (via Conde Nast Traveler

Miss your old Commodore PET? You're in luck

Flash has aggravated PC-maker System76 so much, they won't ship anymore devices with it.

Party like it's the mid-2000s, the iPod (Touch) is back!

"Not to sound like a broken record, but the 'perfect' Chromebook doesn’t yet exist"—ASUS Chromebook Flip included.

Everyone have a chance to try Apple Inc.'s iOS 9 public beta yet? Thoughts?

Can we interest you in DIY pinball to the extreme? Meet the Pinbox 3000 (via MAKE Magazine)

Yesterday—like many days it seems—was not great for Flash users.

First instance: http://trib.al/BYQnLJT

Second instance: http://trib.al/1g7ur59

You've seen those New Horizon Pluto photos, right? RIGHT?!?

Turns out Early Mars is kind of Early Earth-ish.

Greetings from the Heartland Institute conference, where climate skeptics are warmly welcomed.

(The things we'll do for you, dear reader.)

Who buys electric cars? For now, it's California—specifically NorCal—and not many others. (Via Pacific Standard Magazine)

They know it's not called the "iWatch," right? http://trib.al/Zp9xcD1

I love the idea of a phone powered by nostalgia.

Chalk this one up to a slightly overzealous police officer...

Everything looks good so far.

"AT$T Prisoners"

The reddit fallout continues to get worse.

In on going remembrance of Nintendo's Satoru Iwata, we compiled some of our favorite soundbites from the visionary—"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer."

Keep your recreational drones away from All-Star Sportsball.

Google wants a piece of that Bluetooth LE beacon format action.

Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti never trusted Bitcoin—"A currency offering close to total anonymity is obviously the currency of choice for ransoms of all kinds. This is just one of the reasons for Bitcoin should never become a monetary standard"—but he could sure track it.

During Le Mans Race Circuit qualifying, Jan Magnussen hit the safety barriers at 135 mph before spinning around and ramming backwards into a wall on the opposite side...

He walked away OK. Say what?

Flying a drone around fire fighting activities could soon lead to jail time and thousands in fines

The key to treating PTSD (and other trauma)? It may be some ol' fashioned Tetris (via Pacific Standard Magazine)

Some internal confusion at Microsoft, another exec now says there will be three PCs sporting Windows 10 by July 29

How do you make a highly touted $200 privacy device disappear?

NASA has released the most detailed image ever of Pluto, just as New Horizons begins its flyby of the dwarf planet.

The end is nigh for Flash.

Paying for stuff with your Watch: Awesome, or just makes you look silly?

The NYPD has settled with Eric Garner's family for $5.9M. Garner's death, caught on video by a bystander's phone, helped spark protests and demands for body cameras nationwide.

From 2006 until 2012, Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras was stopped at the US border *every single time* she entered the country.

Apple sells less than 20 percent of smartphones worldwide—and earns 92 percent of the profit