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Atari buys rights to RPG classic Wizardry
Wizardry, originally coded in BASIC at the turn of the 80s, was one of the early greats in computer role-playing games, spawning a long-running series…
 • Rob Beschizza
A free site uses live weather data to flag pavement that will burn your dog’s paws
Press the back of your hand against the sidewalk for seven seconds.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
AI Graveyard: 142 AI companies so far buried, many more to come
You’ve probably visited the Google Graveyard, which keeps track of bodies dumped by the tech giant, but the AI boom has already got it beat.
 • Rob Beschizza
Fantasy book community Tome shuts down
Goodreads remains the dominant social media site for readers, despite the almost total hatred they seem to have for it. It has two overwhelming…
 • Rob Beschizza
ReMarkable Paper Pure claimed to be 50% faster than last-gen model
ReMarkable’s progress has been quite, well, remarkable.
 • Rob Beschizza
France summons Musk for X criminal charges
Sam Schechner reports in The Wall Street Journal that French prosecutors have summoned Elon Musk to Paris to face preliminary criminal charges as part…
 • Mark Frauenfelder
California has four to six weeks of gasoline left
California has enough gasoline and diesel to last four to six weeks at normal demand, the state’s Energy Commission said this week — and the last tanker…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Brain-eating amoeba turns up in five western national parks
Naegleria fowleri — the single-celled organism that causes a brain infection with a 98% fatality rate — has been showing up in warm waters at…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Richard Dawkins renamed Claude “Claudia” and decided she’s conscious
Richard Dawkins, the 84-year-old evolutionary biologist who spent decades insisting people stop believing in things without evidence, has decided that…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
US debt hits $31.26 trillion, exceeds annual GDP
The last two times the United States owed more than its annual economic output, the country was either fighting a world war or shutting down due to a…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Stranger Than Heaven isn’t just inspired by Yakuza, it is an official prequel
If you’re a frequent reader of the site, you may have noticed my prior posts on Stranger Than Heaven, a brand-new, next-generation game from Ryu ga…
 • Grant St. Clair
Google using Chrome to install AI files without permission
Hey guys, that four gigabytes of artificial intelligence model you didn’t ask?
 • Séamus Bellamy
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