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New Zelda and GTA represent a games industry that no longer exists

The two biggest games of the year launch in November, offering some reprieve from a terrible year.

Andrew Webster
Get in the spooky spirit with these horrors from YouTube

Close out the Halloween season with these creepy, weird, and unsettling videos from YouTube.

Terrence O'Brien
You can see every red flag in Theranos 2.0
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Knowing common health tech grifts comes in handy for assessing the secretive startups in You Can See Everything.

Victoria Song
Scott Walker’s The Drift will get under your skin

Walker’s 2006 album is unsettling, bizarre, and the perfect way to kill a party.

Terrence O'Brien
Google’s AI search changes upended online publishing

Publishers spent years figuring out how to get clicks on Google. But new AI search features have torn that ecosystem apart.

Emma Roth
They want your blood

Health tech companies want data from your blood in return for a vague promise of a longer life.

Victoria Song
Cities want to put the boot on robotaxis

Frustrated by federal gridlock, cities and states across the political spectrum are taking matters into their own hands to rein in autonomous vehicles.

Andrew J. Hawkins
My AI doppelganger tells me what to eat

In return for feeding a ‘digital twin’ my metabolic data, it predicts how I’ll react to certain foods — and one day, maybe medicines.

Victoria Song
Horror is big business

The genre has become a tentpole across gaming, film, and television.

Andrew Webster
The scariest thing about gray-market peptides is how little we know

Researchers found that BPC-157 users tend to wait two months before disclosing usage to doctors — if they disclose at all.

Victoria Song
We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’

Tech companies with new AI hardware want you to agree that always-listening, often-recapping devices don’t count as recording.

Victoria Song
Prick’s theatrical industrial punk is perfect for spooky season

If Trent Reznor studied musical theater instead of computer engineering NIN might have sounded like Prick.

Terrence O'Brien
The rise, fall, and rise of portable MP3 players

Apple perfected the media player with the iPod, then abandoned it.

Terrence O'Brien
3D movies are finally worth watching

It took decades, but the technology is finally ready.

Sean Hollister
Can VR glasses save VR?Can VR glasses save VR?
Sean Hollister
This blog could help you poop better

Fibermaxxing might help boost an underconsumed nutrient, but you should also be wary of ‘maxxing’ trends.

Victoria Song
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
You’ll have to wait until 2027 to slip the Commodore 64 into your pocket.

Blaze Entertainment’s handheld remakes of the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum were supposed to launch in October but the company has “made the decision to move the release date from 15th October 2026 to 22nd April 2027” for all versions following production issues where it “identified areas where the product construction was not meeting our high standards.”

Blaze Entertainment’s TheC64 and The Spectrum handhelds side by side.
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Out of the Park Baseball lets me enjoy baseball even when the Mets suck

OOTP Baseball is a nitty-gritty, hyperrealistic baseball sim that puts you in the GMs office.

Terrence O'Brien
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

The shutdown of June Oven is another reminder that the cloud was never ours to keep.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute

Meta wants to stuff this guy into everything and entrust it with productivity, health, and relationship goals.

Victoria Song
All roads lead to cable

In their fight to win the war for our attention, streamers are re-creating cable from first principles.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Your ‘health age’ is fake

Can we just agree that your age is your age?

Victoria Song
The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection

The 1980 record from the San Francisco band is raw, infectious, and shockingly modern.

Terrence O'Brien
Your car is selling your data

The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.

Andrew J. Hawkins
New standards for masculinity are stacked against men’s health

Chasing unrealistic standards encourages men to turn themselves into DIY science experiments.

Victoria Song
Solar power is having its toaster moment

The US is finally reclassifying plug-in solar as a household appliance to offset high energy costs.

Thomas Ricker
Continuous glucose monitors are about to get more complicated

Abbott’s new 2-in-1 CGM will help diabetics monitor ketone levels. But can it avoid the wearable hype cycle?

Victoria Song
Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

It’s basically mid-aughts Brooklyn in audio form.

Terrence O'Brien
Your Oura Ring can’t measure what’s going on in your skull

A new lawsuit charges the company with duping customers. Who’s at fault?

Victoria Song
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an intimate coming-of-age horror film

With Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma out in theaters, now is the perfect time to revisit Jane Schoenbrun’s first film.

Terrence O'Brien
Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe

Rockstar’s latest epic is almost here, and it seems nothing can stop it.

Andrew Webster
The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimental, existential limbo

I sat down with Google to discuss its vision for the next generation of wearables. It’s a work in progress.

Victoria Song