Tag: stories
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How the West Was Woke: ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ and Gaming’s Iron Curtain In the final months of 2018, Rockstar Games has absorbed the full force of video game culture’s… more ›
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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he’s got an answer: “536.” Not 1349,… more ›
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Fishing boats to small stores, Amazon will stop at nothing to win in India Before any Amazon parcel arrives at Sahiba Ashraf’s creaky wooden balcony on Havelock Island, it undertakes… more ›
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Billionaires vs. Poverty: Behind a Push to Use Data to Boost Economic Opportunity in Cities The philanthropies of several of the country’s wealthiest people are teaming up to push cities… more ›
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Streaming Wars Quartz AfricaThe important stories of innovation across the continent’s wide-ranging economies https://qz.com/guide/streaming-wars/ more ›
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Desire can be defined by three other words: violence, religion, and sex. What we fight for, what we fear and what we worship, what we love and obsess about: the… more ›
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100 Notable Books of 2018 An American Marriage By Tayari Jones. $26.95. Algonquin. Fiction. Roy and Celestial are a young black couple in Atlanta “on the come up,” as he… more ›
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Red Dead Redemption 2: The Kotaku Review From tip to tail, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a profound, glorious downer. It is the rare blockbuster video game that seeks to move players… more ›
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Spotify to Musicians: Let Us Be Your Label “Via” Mia Coleman was singing on American Idol at age 17, backing up rapper Anderson .Paak a few years later, and, at… more ›
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Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones Smartphone cameras that take a single picture begin to struggle at 30 lux. Phones that capture and merge several pictures (as… more ›