The unnerving rise of video games that spy on you
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A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly
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North Korea hacked him. So he took down its internet.
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It's not just the IRS—the US government wants your selfies
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The gritty, underground network bringing Japan’s arcades to the US
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The McDonald’s ice cream machine hacking saga has a new twist
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Locked out of ‘god mode,’ runners are hacking their treadmills
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You're probably not using the web's best browser (Vivaldi)
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Remember when multiplayer gaming needed envelopes and stamps? The history of play by mail games
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The FTC votes unanimously to enforce right to repair
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Why a YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
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The untold story of the big boat that broke the world
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The story of Lee Holloway: The decline of a brilliant young coder
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How some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
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The long, strange life of the world’s oldest naked mole rat
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Your grandma’s tube TV is the hottest gaming tech
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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It began as an AI-fueled dungeon game, it got much darker
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They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
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Turns out, Spock is kinda bad at logic
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They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines—and started a cold war
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Golf is facing an existential crisis
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I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
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A bird-feed seller beat a chess master online. Then it got ugly.
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Wikipedia is finally asking Big Tech to pay up
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Clubhouse cured my imposter syndrome
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Microdosing's feel-good benefits might just be placebo effect
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France’s new tech "repairability index" is a big deal
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Billionaires see VR as a way to avoid radical social change
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Social media platform Parler is back online with new hosting
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Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
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On the trail of the robocall king
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The unsettling truth of the story behind "Mostly Harmless", the hiker whose mysterious death fascinated the internet
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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
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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.
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The steampunk rover concept that could help explore Venus
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The scammer who wanted to save his country
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One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer
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The FBI says ‘Boogaloo’ extremists bought 3D-printed machine gun parts
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Amazon wants to win over Sweden – the Swedes have other ideas
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It’s 2020. Why do printers still suck?
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Despite brute-forcing its way to dominance in many other industries, Amazon is having difficulty getting a foothold in games
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The West’s infernos are melting our sense of how fire works
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Computer built using swarms of soldier crabs
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HBO's 'The Wire' inspired a fake turtle egg that spies on poachers
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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop
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Inside the Icelandic facility where Bitcoin is mined—cryptocurrency mining now uses more of the Nordic island nation's electricity than its homes
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97,000 people got convalescent plasma. Who knows if it works?
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What if the Big Bang was actually a Big Bounce?
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