Sex, lies and video games: Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry — instead, everyone played each other ~games Article 8599 words, published Nov 23 2020 12 votes
Illuminating Kirinyaga - Meaning and knowing in Mount Kenya’s forests ~enviro Article 5193 words 6 votes
Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back ~tech internet Article 3787 words 6 votes
In 1978, a photographer at a Birmingham lab fell ill with smallpox, prompting a race against time to prevent an epidemic. Does the outbreak carry lessons for Covid-19? ~health Article 3483 words 12 votes
Sega VR revived: emulating an unreleased Genesis accessory with the help of Nuclear Rush's source code ~games Article 6554 words 5 votes
Mathematicians are playing a key role in fighting the pandemic by modeling different scenarios for a vaccine rollout ~health Article 3301 words 4 votes
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Anniversary Update, including new Battle Royale mode, Anniversary Event, Quick Play, and more ~games Article 4388 words 14 votes
How Elektra Records ushered in the alternative music revolution - and then helped kill it ~music Article 9171 words 6 votes
The race to grow human breast milk in a lab ~science biology Article 3950 words, published Nov 14 2020 4 votes
Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA ~tech Article 3116 words 10 votes
Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online? ~tech social media Article 8304 words 4 votes
"No one is listening to us": More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this. ~health healthcare Article 3028 words 27 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. ~humanities.history Article 8055 words 5 votes
The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. ~humanities.history Article 5121 words 24 votes
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women." ~life parenting family work Article 4196 words 19 votes
"I just want to see the person I always saw in my head": How a trans woman found that facial feminization surgery could restore her sense of self ~lgbt transgender Article 4744 words 12 votes
An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020 ~enviro climate change Article 4899 words 15 votes
Daring Fireball review: The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max ~tech apple Article 4030 words, published Nov 9 2020 10 votes
How do you describe TikTok? The automatic culture of the world's favorite new social network ~tech social media Article 3698 words 5 votes
youtube-dl's creator and initial maintainer explains the origins of the project ~tech Article 3090 words 18 votes
"The intelligence coup of the century" - For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries ~news usa germany switzerland Article 8446 words 12 votes
Researching the potential of using machine learning to predict random number generation ~comp security Article 6572 words 11 votes
Inside the New York Times' heated reckoning with itself ~news journalism usa politics Article 5691 words 7 votes
Life during wartime: How west Belfast became the frontline of the Troubles ~humanities.history Article 3820 words 5 votes
Arizona is known as the best state in the US for people with developmental challenges. But its Division of Developmental Disabilities has turned down thousands of people because of paperwork issues. ~life Article 5566 words 7 votes
Why athletes choke: What makes an elite sports star suddenly unable to do the very thing they have been practising for years? And is there anything they can do about it? ~sports Article 4145 words 3 votes
Why Sergio Ramos' penalties are so difficult to save, according to a goalkeeper ~sports.football Article 5783 words 7 votes
The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution ~science biology Article 4630 words, published Oct 5 2020 6 votes
How Sierra was captured, then killed, by a massive accounting fraud ~games Article 9829 words 21 votes
The mad, mad world of niche sports among Ivy League-obsessed parents ~sports Article 6890 words 10 votes
The complete idiot’s guide to the independence of the Continuum Hypothesis: part 1 ~science mathematics Article 3644 words 9 votes