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Computing revolutionized most aspects of 21st century life, including language, with new and repurposed terms becoming the lexicon of a generation.

Your stomach may never forgive you if you pass through Western Pennsylvania without stopping at Dino’s – where the sandwiches are legendary, the atmosphere is genuine, and the memories are as ...

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For someone who plays a lot of co-op shooters, you'd think that my friends and I would be pretty decent at working together as a team to complete an objective, but alas, that is simply not the case.

Daily tarot horoscopes are here for each zodiac sign. On September 12, 2025, we have a lot of mercurial energy, and it sets the tone for a big day. On Friday, the Sun will be in Virgo, and the Moon ...

Around the time Mortal Kombat became the first big hit video-game movie, 30 years ago, it would have been difficult to picture Steven Spielberg pitching himself as the director for a game-based film.

When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or death. Extensive burns are usually treated by transplanting a thin layer of epidermis, the top layer of skin, from ...

Third Person Shooters Former BioWare exec says Anthem's storytelling failed because it was "treating everyone as if they were the same protagonist," but Borderland succeeds because "the storytelling ...

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

While it’s unclear if the full scope of the changes has been revealed, two early game bosses, Moorwing and Sister Splinter, will be getting slightly nerfed. Some regular enemies will also be getting a ...