Big Tech Companies Join Linux in Effort to Kill Google Maps
Some of Google’s biggest rivals are coming together in a kind of rogues gallery with the hopes of creating new open source services to...
8 of the Best Gifts for Teachers, According to Teachers
It’s a perennial quirk of the holiday season: trying to pick the perfect gifts for the people in your life you’re super grateful for,...
Weird-Ass Video Game Death Stranding to Become Presumably Weird-Ass Movie
In a world where cinematic adaptations of video games are still having a tough time, the announcement that Hideo Kojima’s ambitious, bizarre 2019 game...
Why You Should Make Your Latkes With Potatoes and Nothing Else
Over two thousand years ago, a motley crew of Jews rebelled against their Greek occupiers and reclaimed the Second Temple in ancient Jerusalem. Later,...
History of the Occult Investigates a Conspiracy of Doom
History recalls 1980s Argentina as a time of unease and tragedy exacerbated by power-mad leaders. Cristian Ponce’s unsettling indie History of the Occult revisits...
14 of the Best Gifts for Anyone Who Loves Cheese
Most people like cheese, but you might know someone who really likes cheese. Lives for cheese. Breathes cheese? If you have one of those...
FTX’s Own Executive Tipped Off Bahamian Regulators to Possible Fraud
As the news of FTX’s collapse keeps rolling in, the twists keep coming. We’re now learning that one of the once wildly popular cryptocurrency...
Astronauts Need a Better Diet, Scientists Say
Long stints on the International Space Station take a toll on the human body, and it doesn’t help that the food up there is...
Experimental Shock-Absorbing Material Can Stop Projectiles Traveling Over 3,000 MPH
A team of researchers from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, have used a protein called talin, which functions as “the cell’s natural shock...
The 13 Best New Podcasts of 2022
It was a big year for podcasts—another in a long string of them. These days, it takes a lot to stand out in the...