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Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you’ve done it again: you’ve ruined chess
Back in 2019, experimental game developer and actual university professor Pippin Barr released a browser game consisting of eight, very silly variations on chess – a flagrant assault on the dignity of a strategy experience whose roots go back a thousand years, which Barr justified as an effort to “allow non-players of chess to get…
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to subscribers on Spotify and Apple…
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‘Minions & Monsters’ Taking On The World With $62M+ WW Cume To Date – Box Office Update
FRIDAY AM: Illumination/Universal’s Minions & Monsters has already scared up $62.6M at the global box office after two days of release in the U.S. and additional territories going Wednesday. Yesterday, in U.S. and Canada, Minions & Monsters grossed $10.8M following its Wednesday opening (sans previews) with $14.23M and an A- CinemaScore. The running cume domestic…
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Laura Woods’s fiancé Adam Collard ‘had his shirt ripped and was grabbed by his millionaire property tycoon father in row over cottage’
William ‘Billy’ Collard, a multi-millionaire property developer, will go on trial in August over a confrontation last September.
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Zoox robotaxi redesign brings big rider upgrades
Zoox unveils its updated robotaxi with comfort upgrades, no steering wheel and bidirectional driving as it awaits NHTSA regulatory approval.
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Slay the Spire 2 gets 15 powerful new multiplayer cards, while making life easier the first time you install a mod
Slay the Spire 2 has received a bunch of potent new cards specifically for co-operative multiplayer. They span all five of the game’s classes, from the aloof and stargazing Regent to the venomous and underhand Silent (Silent! My beloved, etc). The update in question is out now via the roguelite deckbuilder’s Steam beta branch, and…
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While you’re watching the World Cup, the feds may be watching you
It’s a big year for America. It’s the semiquincentennial, otherwise known as America250, and the United States is cohosting the World Cup. But spectators at these events – and the millions of people who live in the cities hosting them – may not realize that they, too, are being watched. From Kansas City to New…
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NSW government ‘absolutely thrilled’ to welcome OpenAI … until someone mentioned the Terminator films
Emails sent between MP Anoulak Chanthivong’s staff take cautious approach to AI giant arriving in Sydney – despite the government’s encouragementGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe NSW technology minister’s office removed a reference to being “absolutely thrilled” about OpenAI opening a Sydney office after staffers joked a dystopian Skynet could…
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This slim camera has a transparent LCD screen for a viewfinder
Despite the fact that smartphones have become impressively capable shooters, standalone point-and-shoot cameras are enjoying a renaissance. The tiny Kodak Charmera is still wildly popular, while influencers are scrambling to find aging Canon cameras on eBay. Godox, a company best known for its photography lighting products, is the latest to join the simple camera craze,…
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I finally got my Trump phone
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. One year on, our phones have finally arrived. 12 months, 16 days, 21 hours, and 54 minutes after I first heard about Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), I’m finally holding one in my own hands. That’s right, The Verge’s Trump…