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This article tells part of the story of Maxis Software. Maxis came into 1994 riding high on the wings of SimCity 2000, the hit of the previous holiday season. They followed up that success with… SimHealth: The National Health Care Simulation. This may sound like satire, but it was all too real. To b...
The Alkemis Paint co-founder shares the artists, landscapes, and experiences that continue to shape her creative perspective
Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural barriers were broken. Human evolution is often presented as a clear progression: brains grew larger, faces became smaller, tools improved, and our ancestors gradually became ...
Gary Phillips has had a long career as a crime writer since he first emerged in the 1990s with the Ivan Monk novels, which have been reprinted in new editions in 2024, and are today acclaimed as some of the great crime novels of the era. Since then he’s gone on to write other series […]
An excellent interview! From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it. adactio.com/links/22660
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A documentary about who actually built Java, an AI agent that reimplemented Jakarta EE from the spec, and TornadoVM conceding that portability has limits.
Over the past 60 years, one vital part of my life has been out of my control more often than not.
Kathryn Bigelow's box office flop Strange Days has been championed as a cult classic by audiences for years without a home on streaming...until now.
Indonesia is building a new capital city in the heart of Borneo to replace sinking Jakarta. As construction transforms one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests, scientists and their indigenous collaborators are racing to record the sounds of the forest—and preserve generations of ecological kn...
A new conceptual tool for understanding the modern world just dropped:
The Verge's David Pierce kicks off our new series on staying productive in the AI era — starting with why you should stop trying to stay ahead