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The Apple TV+ series For All Mankind is an alternate history story in which the Soviet Union beats the United States to the moon, leading to a greatly intensified space race. Screenwriter Rafael Jordan was excited to see another science…

One attraction of Binance, as the company grew from its 2017 founding into the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, was the firm's freewheeling flouting of rules. As it amassed well over 100 million crypto-trading users globally,…

Gamers have long been stigmatized as lonely weirdos. Some of that has been deserved—ask anyone who’s had a bunch of children shout horrible slurs at them during a match of Call Of Duty. But some leaders in the gaming industry want to push…

Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao is stepping down as part of a settlement with the US Department of Justice, according to multiple reports. The Wall Street Journal reports that Zhao will plead guilty to violating anti-money-laundering…

When Texas-based copywriter Dustin Ballard released a cover of Aqua’s 1997 Europop hit “Barbie Girl” this summer using an AI-generated version of Johnny Cash’s voice, he was surprised by its reception. “I actually expected more of a…

Image: Short CircuitMovies date themselves for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes what seemed great when we were kids looks silly to adult eyes. Other times the whys are more complicated—think Rambo III and The Living Daylights making heroes…

True.We’re bookended by it. Our borders are defined by violent institutions. By that I mean, on the internal side we have a very extremely robust industrial prison complex, which imprisons more people per capita than any other nation in the…

It won’t be long until we see a true AI keyboard: Rather than rely on simple autocorrect features, the AI could offer helpful suggestions as you type, display corrections, present additional context, or change function depending on the…

The beloved online athenaeum just lost a big court case. Librarians fear it’ll make ebooks less accessible. So why are some writers cheering?

Outside of the 2007 indie hit Waitress, Keri Russell has never had the movie career she obviously deserved—no, a small part in Mission: Impossible III and a laughable cameo in the worst Star Wars movie (I said it) don’t cut it, and no one…