Amazon wants to win over Sweden – the Swedes have other ideas ~tech amazon Article 1558 words 7 votes
Despite brute-forcing its way to dominance in many other industries, Amazon is having difficulty getting a foothold in games ~games Article 4812 words 11 votes
The West’s infernos are melting our sense of how fire works ~enviro natural disasters Article 6770 words 9 votes
HBO's 'The Wire' inspired a fake turtle egg that spies on poachers ~enviro Article 1433 words 7 votes
YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop ~tech social media Article 1364 words 9 votes
Inside the Icelandic facility where Bitcoin is mined—cryptocurrency mining now uses more of the Nordic island nation's electricity than its homes ~enviro energy Article 580 words, published Nov 3 2019 7 votes
97,000 people got convalescent plasma. Who knows if it works? ~health medicine Article 3165 words 7 votes
One IT guy’s spreadsheet-fueled race to restore voting rights ~society politics Article 5670 words 15 votes
Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%. ~tech privacy Article 2533 words 31 votes
Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice” ~tech social media Article 3114 words 7 votes
The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats ~tech social media Article 3718 words, published May 1 1994 20 votes
The rapid sharing of pandemic research shows there is a better way to filter good science from bad ~science Article 2167 words 7 votes
A super sensitive dark-matter search yields strange results. Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics ~science physics.particle Article 772 words 4 votes
The Grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess: Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game ~games.tabletop Article 1480 words 14 votes
Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy ~games Article 678 words 9 votes
Dating apps exposed 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more ~tech privacy amazon.web services Article 619 words 11 votes
An army of volunteers is taking on vaccine disinformation online ~tech social media internet Article 2902 words 6 votes
Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students" ~tech privacy Article 720 words 6 votes
On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity. Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water. But will there be enough to go around? ~space Article 625 words 7 votes
Joe Biden answers the web's most searched questions | WIRED Autocomplete Interview ~society politics Video 11:14 11 votes
Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut ~tech google Article 717 words 4 votes
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017 ~tech internet security.cyber Article 13 662 words 33 votes
World of Warcraft's game director Ion Hazzikostas on how the game's culture has evolved with the internet ~games Article 707 words 6 votes
The stockbrokers of Magic: The Gathering play for keeps ~games.tabletop card games Article 7186 words 7 votes
The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare ~tech Article 7186 words 24 votes
Sweden's cashless society dream isn't all it's cracked up to be – as debates rage along lines of age, wealth and location, the country is looking to create a digital currency ~finance Article 1833 words 4 votes
Why don't we just ban targeted advertising? ~tech privacy internet social media Article 3625 words 27 votes
Who would have thought an iPad cursor could be so much fun? ~tech apple ios Article 620 words 9 votes
Airport architect creates the ideal layout for LaGuardia airport ~transport Video 17:21, published Mar 11 2020 4 votes
Derek Murphy investigates marathon runners whose times seem suspicious, which led him to the case of a seventy-year-old doctor named Frank Meza ~sports Article 5793 words 9 votes
Physicists take their closest look yet at an antimatter atom ~science physics.particle physics.quantum Article 10 votes
The Trump administration and the mandate for neo-classicism ~design architecture Article 1889 words 6 votes
Inside SpinLaunch, the space industry’s best kept secret ~space astronomy rocketry satellites Article 2911 words 13 votes
Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates ~tech security microsoft Article 660 words 20 votes