After My Husband Died, I Learned to Homestead Solo and Feed Our 3 Kids. Here’s How We Survived

I was in the stern, paddling. My six-year-old daughter Olive was wedged firmly in the bow. Between us were Vala, five, and ...
NOW Toronto

10 screen-free activities to do this March Break

Screens off. These 10 screen-free March break activities will keep your kid entertained — no Wi-Fi required. Parents only get one week to spend with their kids before they go back to school and ...
MIT Technology Review

Just pull a string to turn these tile patterns into useful 3D structures

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.
Game Rant

Games That Use Atmosphere Instead of Jump Scares

Anastasia Maillot is an Evergreen Editor based in Finland. At GameRant, she combines her passion for fiction writing and video games to share her love of all things nerdy with the world. Her love for ...
The Conversation

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Thomas Byers receives funding from The Research Training Program Scholarship, supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. Bjorn Nansen receives funding from ...
Wall Street Journal

Hands-Free Driving Systems Confuse Drivers, but Carmakers Push for More

A Ford engineer and her husband were driving their new F-150 pickup in May when something went terribly wrong. The engineer told Ford they were using Ford’s hands-free driving system, BlueCruise, ...
The New Yorker

The Man Who Broke Into Jail

Lieutenant Thomas Conrad was standing in a control room in Nashville’s new central jail when he noticed something off with ...
Scientific American

Rules of mysterious ancient Roman board game decoded by AI

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...
The New York Times

How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children

Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show. By Pranav Baskar Taking a page from the child ...
CNN

Brain game may reduce risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...
Sports Illustrated

NBA Hands Out Discipline for Ugly Pistons-Hornets Brawl

The NBA has issued fines and suspensions for Monday night’s brawl between the Pistons and Hornets. The incident started when Charlotte’s Moussa Diabaté fouled Detroit’s Jalen Duren as he attempted a ...
The Verge

Pokopia turns the Pokémon world into a relaxing, human-free paradise

The Pokémon Company, Koei Tecmo, and Game Freak’s new life sim game is more than a charming spin on Animal Crossing. The Pokémon Company, Koei Tecmo, and Game Freak’s new life sim game is more than a ...