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The debate over Hamnet, explained

Chloé Zhao’s lyrical, elegiac new film Hamnet, based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, has been an Oscars frontrunner since its festival release earlier this year. But as it made its way to mainstream theaters over Thanksgiving week, a new narrative emerged with a central question: Is this film, built around the harrowing death of […]

LISTEN: A Vision for NYC’s Deliveristas and a Battery-Powered Future

Headshot of Baruch Herzfeld

“I bought myself an electric bike to take my kids to the beach and started charging it outside after seeing stats on how many battery fires there were. I looked at other countries that are doing battery-swap networks and  I said, ‘We should do this in New York… My plan, if I can be this […]

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Pluribus episode 6 theory reveals Carol is more danger than the other survivors

Carol learns more about the hivemind in Pluribus episode 6, but they seem to be lying to her by omission

A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on “zero-knowledge proofs”  —  Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.

HD-2D still hasn’t lived up to its full potential

Some of Square Enix's most beloved games, like Chrono Trigger and the early Final Fantasy titles, are begging for HD-2D remakes.