The ripple effects from one of the world’s worst nuclear catastrophes continue after a decade, with…
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This Inmate Used Solitary Confinement to Learn Math. Now He’s Solving the World’s Hardest Equations
In 2010, Christopher Havens was sentenced to 25 years for murder. In 2020, his work in…
After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s cipher has been solved by amateur code breakers
More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern…
Ancient humans may have hibernated to survive brutal glacial winters
Signs of disease in the bones of hominins who lived in glacial Europe half a million…
How ’90s porn led to the internet’s foundational law
In a collaboration with Retro Report, Open Sourced by Vox looks at how today’s heated political…
Dave Prowse: Darth Vader actor dies aged 85
The former bodybuilder was also given an MBE for his long-running role as the Green Cross…
The Creators of Gods of Mars Decided to Cut Out the Middle Man and Produce the Film Entirely in the Unreal Engine
Helmed by Peter Hyoguchi, Gods of Mars is an in-production science fiction film that’s breaking new…
It’s Managers, Not Workers, Who Are Losing Jobs To AI And Robots, Study Shows
“This is a class of people we did not expect robots to have an effect. Because…
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies.…
Middle Students Solve The Issue Of Gerrymandering And Win $10,000 Prize [Infographic]
Three middle school students decided to take on one of the more serious issue in American…
I Used Alexa to Play Board Games and Now I Never Have to Play With My Family Again
Amazon Alexa turns out to be an effective and impartial ally in maintaining a competitive board-gaming…
GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies
Last week, GitHub took down the popular YouTube video downloader tool “YouTube-dl” after the Recording Industry Association…
X-Men: Dark Phoenix director to write and produce Battlestar Galactica film
After many years of attempting a Battlestar Galactica feature film, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Universal…
RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos | ZDNet
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more…
Still filing your emails? Science says it’s a waste of time | Torsten Bell
Inbox slobs who just leave messages where they land are 10% more productive Read more at…
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor
In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative…
‘The Wire’ Inspired a Fake Turtle Egg That Spies on Poachers
Scientists 3D-printed sea turtle eggs and stuffed transmitters inside. When poachers pulled them out of nests,…
Netflix faces criticism over ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners’ ‘Three-Body Problem’ series
Netflix has responded to criticism over comments by the author of the books on which the…
Gaming companies are reportedly the next targets in the US government’s potentially broader Tencent purge – TechCrunch
Some of the biggest names in online gaming in the United States have received letters from…
Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk
Ability to digest dairy as an adult evolved later—and much more quickly—than scientists thought Read more…