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News

The Strategy Behind All Those ‘Sarah From the Conservatives’ Texts

09.16.19

By Justin Ling
Tech

‘Minecraft’ Data Mining Reveals Players’ Darkest Secrets

02.09.18

By Jason Johnson
Tech

Facebook Has to Keep Apologizing for Its Business Model

05.01.17

By Jordan Pearson
Tech

Macrophotography Creates Cybernetic Portraits of Silicon Chips

06.28.16

By DJ Pangburn
Entertainment

How to Make a Play About Technology as Human as Possible

04.12.16

By Amelia Dimoldenberg
Tech

How Flickr Tags Can Reveal Entire Acoustic Atlases of Cities

04.06.16

By Michael Byrne
Your Boss May Be Able to Track If You’re Trying to Get Pregnant

02.17.16

By Lauren Messman
Identity

Your Employer Can Now Track Your Birth Control Prescription

02.17.16

By Gabby Bess
Tech

GCHQ’s Spam Problem

02.03.16

By Joseph Cox
Tech

How Uber Profits Even While Its Drivers Aren’t Earning Money

02.02.16

By Jay Cassano
Tech

Our Grins Have Grown Wider Over the Last Century, Machine-Vision Algorithms Show

11.25.15

By Emiko Jozuka
Bernie Sanders Is Very Worried About Your Data

10.20.15

By Drew Millard

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Horoscopes

Daily Horoscope: March 10, 2026

Fix one small annoyance today, stargazer. Tiny stuff piles up, and suddenly we’re snapping at the wrong person.

5 hours ago

By Ashley Fike
A still from Mark Leckey's video for “Iron Lung Ballet”

Music

Mark Leckey Has Made a Disquieting Music Video for Sheet Noise

The clip—for a song from an album about human “desperation in a post-nuclear world”—is just as uplifting as you’d expect.

10 hours ago

By Adam Christopher Smith
Screenshot: Brent Koepp

Gaming

Resident Evil Requiem Review: The Best Resident Evil Game Since RE4

Resident Evil Requiem is the best Resident Evil game since RE4. Here’s why Capcom’s latest horror sequel, RE9, is an absolute masterpiece.

10 hours ago

By Brent Koepp
Photo By A. Perez Meca/Europa Press via Getty Images

Music

Gorillaz Announce The Mountain Tour 2026: How to Get Tickets

The semi-animated simian chill-hoppers are on the road all year in support of their new album, The Mountain.

13 hours ago

By Nick Stockton
(Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Music

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s Los Angeles Home Was Shot While the Singer Was Reportedly Inside

On Sunday, March 8, 2026, a suspect pulled up to Rihanna’s house in Los Angeles and fired several rounds at the mansion while the singer was home.

13 hours ago

By Stephen Andrew Galiher