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KarmaZoo defies the norm for multiplayer games, rewarding players for working together rather than fighting for dominance.

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Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.

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Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

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Influencers will never influence us to buy less stuff. It’s antithetical to the job.

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They just don't make them like they used to. Here's why horror movies aren't as scary as they used to be.

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In this week’s edition of Confider, we peer inside Gladwell’s podcast company and reveal internal concerns over mismanagement and an awkward back-and-forth over diversity.

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes reaches back to a fad that blew up, then burned out

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The Daily Wire made its own Bluey and ... Mister Rogers?

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How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?

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It is hard, in the era of the AR-15, to fear a vampire.

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Netflix’s 3 Body Problem has a new release date and a promising teaser clip to ease the wait.

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As the SAG-AFTRA strike ends, it's time to start unpacking the hard-learned lessons from more than six months of dysfunction and shutdowns.

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Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, opening next month at the Brooklyn Museum, will feature nearly a thousand works by almost 100 artists.

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Elon Musk isn’t happy about it.

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“Now and Then” is an abomination.

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Every so often, industry incentives shift and make room for a cavalcade of groundbreaking art. But the default setting is appealing to the masses.

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The sub-series goes out with a quiet, uneventful whimper.

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Sam Leigh's game, The World We Left Behind, was created in collaboration with a BalletCollective choreographer and composer.

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Every society, civilization and culture has mythologies and cosmologies; they make up a corpus of ancient and sacred narratives that help give meaning to the world. Passed down through generations,…

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Tananarive Due's new novel, 'The Reformatory,' is the latest in a career of Black horror fiction. It began with an upbringing steeped in civil-rights activism.

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Casey Bloys ordered staffers to create fake accounts to fire back at critics, according to texts reviewed by Rolling Stone as part of a new lawsuit.

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The Streaming Wars Are Lost (www.escapistmagazine.com)
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The streaming wars are coming to an end. As the survivors stumble dazed through the wreckage of what remains, it’s hard not to wonder if the struggle has irreparably damaged what they claimed to be fighting over.

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Marvel has enjoyed a nearly uninterrupted string of hits ever since it started independently producing its movies with 2008’s “Iron Man.”

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