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Do we really want to listen to a whole film of Charles Martinet going “woohoo” in falsetto and putting on a cartoonishly thick Italian accent?

Teen girls have unique needs and experiences that are often left out of our built environment

“Loab” was initially produced using a technique called “negative weighting.” Usually, when using an AI image generator, you’re attempting to make your AI produce whatever image it can that it believes most closely resembles a verbal prompt. Negative weighting allows you to do the opposite. (Warning: some creepy/gross images follow)

Howard Scott Warshaw’s video game was blamed for single-handedly sinking a multibillion-dollar market. But the true story is more complicated.

He was Hulk Hogan before Hulk Hogan. He leapt to the big screen before it was the sporting standard. And for his final act? He worked in the shadows to help topple Hitler.

Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.

Few genres are more preposterous than the locked room mystery. The premises are absurd and plot solutions ridiculous—but still I keep on reading.

The story of ‘Teletubbies’ is anything but innocent

Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the "Irish Crown Jewels" from Dublin Castle.

Out Run hit arcades 35 years ago this month. Its influence is still being felt on consoles, in music, and in movies

The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. When a co-worker casually asked me why links are blue, I was stumped.

The structure of many jokes today bear a striking resemblance to their ancient counterparts, and many modern comedies mine character traits that are very similar to the popular stock types of ancient comedy.

Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness.

Late last spring, a strange, beguiling novel began arriving, in installments, in the mail. Who had written it?

Most romances today have deep digital footprints. This one didn’t — and to the state, that was a problem.

You might not realize it, but every part of a color-bar layout, the most common television test pattern out there, has a specific purpose. Here’s how it came to be.