Our Man in the Stacks
By Cord Brooks NEAR THE END of his sympathetic biography of Graham Greene, Richard Greene (no relation) evokes an “odd tableau” from August 1980, when …
By Cord Brooks NEAR THE END of his sympathetic biography of Graham Greene, Richard Greene (no relation) evokes an “odd tableau” from August 1980, when …
By Angela Watercutter The creatures made famous by Game of Thrones went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now geneticists know a little more about where …
By Morgan Dykeman During a bleary fall and winter, the open world of Skyrim gave me the motivation and joy I couldn’t find in the …
By Karl Bode Outside from perhaps military contractors, you’d be pretty hard pressed to find a US business sector that benefitted more from Trumpism that …
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By Cord Brooks ORDINARY MOMENTS of seeing, of presence that simultaneously speak to something eternal, have long been at the heart of Stanley Plumly’s poetry. …
By Cody Cassidy Don’t be a young, healthy, single man. That’s our first piece of advice. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/case-for-cannibalism-how-survive-donner-party
By David Nield The premise is convenient. But the e-commerce giant’s privacy track record isn’t exactly inspiring. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/how-amazon-sidewalk-works
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By Gear Team These are the products, prototypes, and ideas that did the best job of signaling the future at this year’s consumer tech showcase. …
By Swapna Krishna The island quest-style game is perfect for this “casual gaming” moment. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/easy-mode-bugsnax
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By Mark Hachman Amid the fanfare over AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 Mobile chips, you might have missed one important detail: Some of the new CPUs use …
By Mark Hachman Amid the fanfare over AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 Mobile chips, you might have missed one important detail: Some of the new CPUs use …
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By Michael Simon If you took my advice last month and returned your new Galaxy S20, the day you’ve been waiting for has nearly arrived. …
By Jennifer Szalai Nadia Owusu’s beautiful and unsettling memoir is an attempt to understand what it means to be rooted and rootless. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/books/review-aftershocks-nadia-owusu.html
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By Timothy Geigner Last month, we discussed a crazy lawsuit brought by Alan Rupp, owner of Kern’s Kitchen and the trademark for the fairly famous …
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By Tim Cushing Here’s an interesting decision [PDF] by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. On one hand, it says cops can possibly hassle people …
By Alexandra Alter The 1978 novel, which Amazon recently removed from its site, depicts a right-wing assault on the Capitol. Scholars say the parallels with …
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By Cecilia D’Anastasio A pixelated political drama has played out in the sandbox game since May—drawing millions of viewers in the process. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/minecraft-dream-smp-political-drama
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By Tim Cushing There’s a warrant requirement for cellphone searches, thanks to the Supreme Court’s Riley decision. But not every search is, um, warranted, even …
By Brad Chacos Gamers hoping to hear more from AMD’s Radeon division at CES 2021 wound up disappointed on Tuesday, as CEO Lisa Su’s keynote …
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By Parul Sehgal In “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,” Saunders analyzes the “physics” of storytelling with the help of Chekhov, Tolstoy and …
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By Nicholas Thompson His emaciated body was discovered in a tent, just a few miles from a major Florida highway. His identity—and troubled past—were discovered …
By Mike Masnick Lots of folks are reporting on the news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has now said that she finds Twitter’s decision to …
By Jen Golbeck The insurrection at the Capitol was planned on social media—and more plans are still being made in broad daylight across the internet. …
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By Mark Hachman Masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 range have evolved from protection to a fashion statement. Now Razer is taking it a …
By Mark Hachman Masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 range have evolved from protection to a fashion statement. Now Razer is taking it a …
By Ed Oswald The new modem/router combo costs less than its predecessors, but it’s also a little slower. Source:: https://www.techhive.com/article/3603211/arris-surfboard-max-cable-modem-news.html#tk.rss_all
By Ed Oswald The new modem/router combo costs less than its predecessors, but it’s also a little slower. Source:: https://www.techhive.com/article/3603211/arris-surfboard-max-cable-modem-news.html#tk.rss_all
By Paul Levy Background First of all, corporations enjoy First Amendment protections, among other constitutional protections. Although some of my friends decry that proposition, given …
By Daily Deal The 2021 Career And Self Development Bundle has 10 courses to help you achieve all of your business and non-business goals. Courses …
By Daily Deal The 2021 Career And Self Development Bundle has 10 courses to help you achieve all of your business and non-business goals. Courses …
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By Kate Knibbs Cold weather sucks even more when a pandemic makes it nearly impossible to socialize inside. But I found a hack. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/cold-wfh-heated-clothes
By Cord Brooks THERE IS A common saying not to speak ill of the dead, but what about glorifying them? Can complications arise from such …
By Cord Brooks THERE IS A common saying not to speak ill of the dead, but what about glorifying them? Can complications arise from such …
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By Mike Masnick Every year a few days after New Years we post some stats about traffic and comments to effectively close the books on …
By Gordon Mah Ung AMD fans looking for the promised land of a Zen 3-based laptop running Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs won’t have …
By Mark Hachman AMD officially launched its Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors at CES 2021 on Tuesday, hoping to continue what it’s accomplished on the desktop: …
By Andy Greenberg The “free speech” social network also allowed unlimited access to every public post, image, and video. Source:: https://www.wired.com/story/parler-hack-data-public-posts-images-video