In late 2005, Amazon (AMZN) launched a website without fanfare with a strange name and an even stranger pitch. Jeff Bezos called it “Mechanical Turk,” after an 18th-century chess-playing machine that ...

We enjoyed [Beej’s] trip down memory lane looking at a BASIC game, The Wizard’s Castle, written for the Exidy Sorcerer. It appeared in a 1980 magazine that included the title graphic ...

Hello. I am Saki Tojo, an associate professor of folklore studies. How often do you check your SNS 'message requests' or 'spam folders'? Outside the boundaries of the 'safe village' of followers and ...

Sturdy, steady, and as reliable as a well-tooled construction, Ray Carney, the “cool machine” that powers the third volume of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, is a time-worn but still fully ...

Finland's libraries are increasingly being valued not by how many books they lend, but how they help societies function. On a freezing January morning in Helsinki, around 20 people gather outside Oodi ...

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A renegade tinkerer survives in a neon-soaked metropolis. Somewhere in the city, a tyrannical syndicate has built a sonic weapon. To stop it, the character must assemble a strange fictional device ...

Just when you think you know everything there is to know about the guitar, here comes Shane Parish to show that you are mistaken. This can be heard on both acoustic and electric instruments; in ...

The big news in the world of tech is that AIs have their own social network. It's called Moltbook, and things have been getting pretty weird on there. Since the artificial intelligence-only site was ...

Wow! I thought to myself. There is a new single out by Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga. I love the solo work of both these artists, and I was really ecstatic when they got together for that wonderful duet, ...

Abstract: Phishing, insider exploitation, and sophisticated transaction manipulation are examples of the kind of cyberthreats that financial institutions must contend with. They are not by themselves.