Speedrunning is plagued with cheating, and technological advances are making it more and more difficult to detect
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Heatwaves on multiple continents linked by jet stream tendency
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US Federal Communications Commission proposes designating 988 as national suicide prevention and mental health hotline number
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The modders who spent fifteen years fixing Knights of the Old Republic 2
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"Randomizers" are breathing new life into old games
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Netflix cancels its Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival
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Ars talks fighting games with Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari
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Nintendo's Corey Olcsvary plays a selection of user-generated Super Mario Maker 2 levels and offers his thoughts on their designs
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Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
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Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
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Vitamin E acetate found in all twenty-nine lung fluid samples tested from injured vapers
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Mac Walters, creative director for the Mass Effect franchise, answers unsolved mysteries of the Mass Effect universe
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
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Jackson Pollock deliberately avoided “coiling instabilities” when creating his paintings
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Ars Cardboard's picks for the best new board games from Essen Spiel 2019
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Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification
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Three "programming" board games: Lovelace & Babbage, Quirky Circuits, and Pixoid
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Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. Here’s what we know so far.
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How Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
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US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
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Minecraft: Builders & Biomes condenses series tropes into a family-friendly board game with tough tactical decisions
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An overview and ranking of the seventeen available Ticket to Ride maps
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Sid Meier discusses Civilization's original design as a real-time strategy game and the transition to turn-based | War Stories
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Untitled Goose Game review: The year's best video game about geese, reviewed from a goose's point of view.
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Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway
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Rockstar releases their own game launcher, which is now required to play some of their Steam games like GTA5 and Max Payne 3
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Elon Musk spent $50,000 digging into Thai submarine critic Vern Unsworth’s personal life
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Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules
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YACHT's new album Chain Tripping was created by inventing their own machine-learning-based composition process and applying it to their back catalogue
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Collector acquires rare Konami Space School cartridge and QTa adapter for Famicom, dumps them for emulation
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Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot
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Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy
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Eliza review: Startup culture meets sci-fi in a touching, fascinating tale
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US hurricane forecasts may be running headlong into the butterfly effect
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Ars Technica's list of the hottest new board games from Gen Con 2019
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SNES emulator bsnes now supports a new method of overclocking that removes slowdown without any framerate or pitch distortion
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US Feds told Tesla to stop making “misleading statements” on Model 3 safety
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Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo team up to force loot box odds disclosures
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Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
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Subnautica: a world without guns | War Stories
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Classic Doom games vanish, reappear on Xbox One with features missing
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The helicopter team that films the Tour de France
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2019 Board Game of the Year Goes to "Just One"
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New standard Switch model coming in August/September will improve battery life forty to eighty percent
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My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories of 4M users
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Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
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Prenda Law porn-troll saga ends with prison for founder
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for right to repair laws slowly grows
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