History A plane vanished in 1947 after sending "stendec" in Morse Code Ellsworth Toohey

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Games We might be getting that New Vegas followup, but not in the way anyone expected Grant St. Clair

Games XBox announces layoffs Rob Beschizza

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Games The age of physical games begins to come to a close as PlayStation discontinues discs Grant St. Clair

politics County with 37 data centers tells schools to turn off lights to save electricity Rob Beschizza

gadgets Mass layoffs expected at Xbox, as prices go up Rob Beschizza

serious business SpaceX stock took a predictable trajectory Rob Beschizza

gadgets Reviving old PCs with Linux now that new ones cost an arm and a leg Rob Beschizza

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Coffee Used coffee grounds can now be turned into fuel in 90 seconds Séamus Bellamy

Space Webb spent three days photographing one beautiful galactic mess Jason Weisberger

Games GTA 6 is officially an $80 game — here's what you get Grant St. Clair

AI Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it Jason Weisberger

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activism "Laxative" brownies turn Nantucket School Committee meeting into Schrodinger's shitshow Rob Beschizza

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movies Backrooms is a blockbuster Rob Beschizza

Science This weekend's blue moon is also a micromoon (but won't be blue and isn't smaller) Rob Beschizza