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Former Valve designer, writer dishes on his new “co-op” game studio

SAN FRANCISCO—In 2017, game designer and writer Chet Faliszek left Valve Software. The departure was notable in part because Faliszek was perhaps second...

Apple updates $499 iPad Air, $399 iPad mini ahead of services event next week

We're one week out from Apple's services-focused event in Cupertino, and the company just announced a pair of devices we've been expecting for...

SpaceX may begin testing its Starship spacecraft this week

For months in south Texas, SpaceX employees have been assembling a test version of the upper stage for its next-generation launch system. This...

This medieval astrolabe is officially world’s oldest known such instrument

A mariner's astrolabe recovered from the wreck of one of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's ships is now officially the oldest known such artifact,...

Behind the Curve a fascinating study of reality-challenged beliefs

There's a scene somewhere in the middle of a new flat Earth documentary that acts as metaphor for so much that surrounds it....

New documentary has a good time asking how gene editing might change the world

I thought back to all that nerd humor when I reflected on , a documentary about gene editing and CRISPR that had its world...

Sloth-by-sloth-west: The good and the Goop of SXSW 2019 (in pictures)

AUSTIN, Texas—While sitting in the auditorium waiting to hear Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren talk further about her views on Silicon Valley, an...

Beto O’Rourke outed as Cult of Dead Cow member, phreaker and writer of screeds

Beto O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman and Senate candidate and recently declared Democratic candidate for president in 2020, has been outed as a...

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