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JoJo: Steel Ball Run review: The perfect starting point for one of anime's wildest stories

Netflix's adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's ambitious JoJo installment is off to a great start, despite crunching a lot of the manga into two episodes.

Monopoly's secret history canonized the wrong version of The Landlord's Game

Monopoly began as The Landlord’s Game, designed to critique wealth inequality. The version we play today delivers the wrong message.

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January  —  We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.

The Artist Pro 27 is XP-Pen’s latest 4K flagship display tablet

XP-Pen has launched a new 27-inch display drawing tablet that competes with the visual performance of Wacom's beloved Cintiq Pro series, but for a fraction of the cost. The Artist Pro 27 is available starting today for $1,899.99, providing a 4K resolution display with a 120Hz refresh rate and extreme color accuracy, according to XP-Pen's […]

Max Robinson: The First Black Anchor Who Told the Truth for a Living, But Couldn’t Tell His Own

Behind Max Robinson's tailored suits and deep voice, the first Black anchor was an intellect being bled dry by the very industry that called him a pioneer.

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