Her local represents ARS employees in the northern Plains and the Midwest. However, the layoffs also hit lower-level scientists, lab technicians and support staff, whom Carpenter called “the ...

It was only a few days ago that a certain fear-mongering website named, ahem, Ars Technica published an article about the prospect of a killer asteroid striking the planet Earth in the year 2032.

Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimated a 1.9 percent chance of an impact with Earth in 2032.

Arsenal: Raya (gk), Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Sterling, Trossard.

In each case, desperate customers contacted Ars because the telecom provider didn't reconnect their service. And each time, CenturyLink finally sprang into action and fixed the problems shortly ...