Jet Rocket was the world's first flight simulator game, the first first-person shooter game, and the first game in which the player made their way through a virtual world (known as an "open world" game)

Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or not

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When a bad Trump joke becomes an affair of state, Germany has lost more than its sense of humour. The dropping of comedian Sebastian Hotz and Elon Musk’s intervention raise serious questions about freedom of speech

What were the binding constraints on a Roman Industrial Revolution?

Blade Runner 2099, the upcoming Amazon Prime Video television sequel to the 1982 and 2017 films of the same franchise, has started shooting in Prague

Panic! at the Job Market

ready for another too-long article about personal failure while blaming the world for our faults? let’s see where we end up

Facebook Is the 'Zombie Internet'

How Safetyism and Social Media are damaging the kids

Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights

Multiple AI companies are ignoring Robots.txt files meant to block the scraping of web content for generative AI systems

Incredible. Was ich an Strom zahle für meine eigene Wohnung, zahlen die hierzulande alleine für Unterhaltung durch Streaming. WTF.

The lifespan of game consoles: From birth to obsolescence

Adobe employees slam the company over AI controversy: 'Let's avoid becoming like IBM'

The climate cost of the first two years of Russia’s war on Ukraine was greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 175 countries

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"....fry human flesh for dinner, and then listen to them talk about how great things were going. You can read all about these horrors in Yang Jisheng's epic book, Tombstone. His own father died in the famine"

800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China

The Argentinian’s afterlife – a horror story of allegations and legal wrangles – has taken another turn