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Leaving Las Vegas: 15 stories you might have missed this week

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Most of the stories you read on Ars this week came straight from the show floor at the Las Vegas Convention Center. You’ll find plenty of articles here about the hardware (and software, and infrastructure) of the future form new car tech to AT&T’s plan to go all-IP. You’ll also find plenty of stories not from CES in this list—our interview with the Republican staffer whose views on copyright got him fired, reporting on an extremely crtical Ruby on Rails bug, and an update on the antics of John McAfee, to name a few.

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A dozen meaty articles you may have missed while feasting

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In the United States, Thanksgiving Day derails the regular workweek with food and family, but Ars still had a full week of reporting. If you were travelling or entertaining house guests, and didn’t have time to follow all of our best reports, here’s a handy list of some of the most important things that happened this week:

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10 stories you may have missed this week, with the speed of Google Fiber

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Mike Demarais posted this to Twitter during the first few minutes that Google Fiber went live in his Kansas City home.
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Perhaps you missed some of Ars’ best reporting this week, and hey, who isn’t busy these days. If that’s the case, never fear: we created a handy list for you. Ars talked to Kansas City residents who were able to use Google Fiber for the first time, and tracked down the IT teams for both the Obama and Romney campaigns to figure out what went on behind the scenes. We also reviewed Windows Phone 8 and New Super Mario Bros U.

Skim the list and see if there’s anything you need to catch up on:

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At the controls: 12 stories you might have missed this week

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Workers assemble the engine for a Ferrari 458 Italia, which uses direct injection.
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This week Ars talked about ambitious projects; some that were still in their infancy and others that were finally coming to fruition. One of the biggest projects, SpaceX’s Dragon, berthed with the International Space Station this week. It was Dragon’s second docking with the ISS ever, and quite a logistical feat. We also found the best “trolling the scammers” stories on the Internet: not only is it not an easy task for a fraud to scam someone into placing malware on their computer, but it’s also an undertaking for serious “scam trolls” who sometimes dedicate hours to  getting the last laugh from “tech support.”

Authors Jonathan Gitlin and Kyle Niemeyer took a look at another engineering puzzle: making auto engines twice as fuel efficient by 2025. And we talked about ambition on a macro-scale in a story about a mold that stores external memories of where it’s been. Take a look at the list below and see if there’s anything you missed from this week.

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Getting handsy with the hardware (and the software)

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This week we wrote a lot about all the Apple hardware and software we could get our hands on, and we did a full review of Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD. A lot happened this week—maybe everyone finally got back from summer vacation? If you were too busy to keep up with the important news of the week, never fear, we compiled 12 of the best and most interesting news stories in the handy list below. This way, you can be all caught up in time for next week’s grind!

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Surveillance and password cracking: 10 important stories from this week

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Networks are critical to just about everything we do in tech, and keeping those networks safe and working is a topic that got a lot of attention this week. Ars wrote about the ubiquity of tools that let users hack into WiFi networks, the low overhead on Internet surveillance, and why you just can’t seem to connect to WiFi at major sporting events. The entertainment industry is also finding that it will live or die by how it defines its relationships to networks: HBO announced that it would bring a streaming-only service to European cord-cutters, and Ars took an in-depth look at how video streaming has been constrained by copyright law.

Check these 10 stories out if you didn’t catch them earlier this week!

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10 stories that aren’t about Apple’s $1 billion in damages

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While the biggest news event of the week happened late Friday afternoon, 10 other stories on Ars got lots of attention in the beginning of the week. Security Editor Dan Goodin wrote about the declining strength of passwords, and Nintendo Power announced that its last issue would be released in December. We ran a story about early coders who transmitted and received instructions for BASIC programs over radio. And we posted a solid handful of hardware reviews. Check them out if you missed them earlier this week!

Oh, right, and that story about the Apple v. Samsung verdict: Apple v. Samsung verdict is in: $1 billion loss for Samsung

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10 stories you’ll want to read this week: Mountain Lion style

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Big cats stalked the spotlight this week with Apple’s latest OS X release. John Siracusa wrote an astoundingly thorough review of the new operating system, and we gave those short on time a screenshot tour of the important new features. We also showed you how to create a backup Mountain Lion install disk, for your multiple Macs.

It wasn’t all Mountain Lion, all the time though. Valve’s Gabe Newell had some choice words for Microsoft’s Windows 8, and a Washington, DC police chief banned her employees from confiscating cameras while on the job. Enjoy our delectable smorgasbord of news you never quite got around to reading this week!

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