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How a 1980s Atari creator with cystic fibrosis crafted a story of salmon survival

BENJ EDWARDS

Doctors said he'd die by 13, but Bill Williams turned long odds into iconic art about endurance.

Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines

KEVIN PURDY

Can you mine resources and build factories with merely sticks and buttons?

Who are climate conscious consumers? Not who you’d expect, says Northwind Climate

TIM DE CHANT

Rather than divide people into demographic buckets, Northwind Climate analyzes survey responses for behavioral clues.

Andreessen Horowitz is trying to nab a piece of TikTok with Oracle, report says

DOMINIC-MADORI DAVIS

The venture capital firm is reportedly in talks to invest in TikTok as part of a bid led by Oracle and other American investors looking to buy out TikTok from ByteDance, according to the Financial Times.  TikTok is once again slated to be banned in the US on April 5th unless its Chinese-based owner sells […]

An accounting startup has turned tax preparations into a Pokémon Showdown game

DOMINIC-MADORI DAVIS

Accounting software company Open Ledger has launched a new product in time for tax day.  Meet PokéTax, a game that helps make tax filing quite fun. Instead of tax forms, users take on Tax Trainers — gym leaders — representing different parts of a tax form, such as income, deduction, and credits. Each leader asks […]

Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O’Reilly books

KYLE WIGGERS

OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn't license to train more sophisticated AI models. AI models are essentially complex prediction engines. Trained on […]

Google Fi users on iPhone finally get RCS messaging

RYAN WHITWAM

Apple only supported RCS on the big three carriers in the first iOS18 releases.

What we’re expecting from Nintendo’s Switch 2 announcement Wednesday

KYLE ORLAND

We take some wild stabs ahead of the big "Nintendo Direct" presentation.

“Chaos” at state health agencies after US illegally axed grants, lawsuit says

JON BRODKIN

RFK Jr. killed grants "with no warning or legally valid explanation," states say.

Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems

JOHN TIMMER

A tokamak moves forward as two companies advance plans for stellarators.

Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Takeover $500 Million Office Building For Free

BRIAN BARRETT

It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

DELL CAMERON, EMILY MULLIN

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

Honda will sell off historic racing parts, including bits of Senna’s V10

JONATHAN M. GITLIN

Honda will also find new homes for some heritage IndyCars and MotoGP bikes.

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