The unsettling truth of the story behind "Mostly Harmless", the hiker whose mysterious death fascinated the internet ~life Article 4225 words 16 votes
Lucasfilm Games announces that Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment is developing an open-world Star Wars game, the first non-EA Star Wars game since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 ~games Article 1069 words 15 votes
Nearly 1.6 million Illinois Facebook users to get about $350 each in privacy settlement ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 506 words 7 votes
Electric cars are better for the planet – and often your budget, too ~enviro Article 954 words 6 votes
Visual investigations: How a Presidential rally turned into a Capitol rampage // Insurrection at the Capitol: A timeline of how it happened ~society politics Article 1025 words 12 votes
The scary power of the companies that finally shut Trump up ~tech social media Article 885 words 25 votes
Norwegian Air gives up long-haul flying in plan to exit insolvency – seeks to raise as much as $590 million in new capital ~transport Article 7 votes
Bakersfield, California just ended chronic homelessness ~life Article 650 words, published Jan 6 2021 11 votes
Hunting pastime spikes during pandemic. Conservationists are glad ~enviro conservation Article 1595 words 6 votes
The lab-leak hypothesis—for decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …? ~health Article 2597 words, published Jan 4 2021 18 votes
I see no choice but to resign from this Death Star as it begins to explode ~society politics Article 662 words 34 votes
The rise of Sierra Online wasn’t exactly a fairytale. Founder Ken Williams opens up about his new book, video game design in the late 80s—and his regrets about selling the company. ~games Article 4789 words 8 votes
Joe Biden is certified as the 46th President of the United States ~news usa politics Article 5773 words 43 votes
Pennsylvania Republicans block seating of Democratic state senator, take control from lieutenant governor ~news politics usa.pa Article 692 words 20 votes
The mutated coronavirus is a ticking time bomb ~health Article 2867 words, published Dec 31 2020 10 votes
Alexi Laiho, frontman for Finnish metal giants Children of Bodom, dead at 41 ~music metal.heavy Article 480 words 7 votes
Crying in H Mart: Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?" ~life family Article 1983 words 11 votes
Trump took a wrecking ball to media credibility—can Biden repair it? ~society politics Article 1731 words, published Dec 27 2020 7 votes
Experts lay out the criteria for choosing Biden's CTO, who will be faced with using tech to tackle everything from climate change to vaccine distribution ~tech Article 1678 words 6 votes
An RV exploded in Nashville, TN around 6:30 today - police suspect it was intentional ~transport Article 1102 words 25 votes
Apple loses copyright battle against security start-up Corellium ~tech apple security Article 399 words 6 votes
What the hole is going on? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. ~food Article 4015 words 11 votes
Why 'accidental Americans' are desperate to give up their US citizenship ~finance banking Article published Dec 23 2020 10 votes
The ethical challenges of connecting our brains to computers ~science biology Article 845 words 9 votes
Elon Musk says Apple CEO Tim Cook refused talks to buy Tesla at $60 billion valuation during 2017 ~tech apple Article 9 votes
Privacy is a collective concern ~tech privacy internet Article 1124 words, published Oct 22 2019 4 votes
Denmark will dig up millions of dead mink after a hasty cull and burial intended to stamp out a coronavirus mutation ended with a new contamination risk ~enviro pollution.ground Article 20 votes
The full(est possible) story of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference ~news politics usa Article 11 votes
How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month ~humanities.history Article 2222 words 8 votes
US federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls ~tech Article 1737 words 11 votes
An elixir from the French Alps, frozen in time ~food drinks history recipes Article 2178 words 9 votes
A riveting ISIS story, told in a Times podcast, falls apart (Caliphate podcast) ~news journalism Article 3530 words 8 votes
‘This is the reality’: Far-right Newsmax and One America channels grapple uneasily with Joe Biden’s electoral college victory ~society politics Article 764 words 20 votes
Companies often want to keep loyal employees when their jobs change or go away. Here are some effective ways to move people onto a new career path. ~life education work Article 1510 words, published Nov 24 2020 4 votes