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Reporting on the systems, tools and people quietly deciding what the next decade runs on.
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The Hands Got Fixed. The Rest of the Model Got Worse.
A targeted retrain finally taught an image system to draw five fingers in the right order. Users found the bill within a week, and…
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War is Another Indie Gem
A cartoon about the First World War that ends with a name on a stone. Calling it an indie gem is wrong in one…
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Arctic Circles Expedition Has Something Important
Divers going under a Svalbard ice floe found the spring bloom already three weeks along in water that should have been dark. The expedition’s…
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The Sequel to Wasteland is Finally Released
Twenty-six years, one crowdfunding campaign and 61,000 backers later, the Desert Rangers are back. The result is stubborn, ugly in places, and unlike anything…
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