Enlarge / BOSTON—A man wearing a QAnon vest held a flag during a No Mandatory Flu Shot Massachusetts rally held outside of the State House in Boston on Aug. 30, 2020, to demonstrate against Gov. Charlie Baker’s order for mandatory influenza vaccinations for all students under the age of 30, an effort to lower the ..
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reader comments 44 with 30 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] John David Washington stars in Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film Tenet. NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas—The biggest irony in this summer’s cinematic saga over Tenet—director Christopher Nolan’s latest heady time travel detective movie that he and his studio insist must play in The Theater™ despite a worldwide ..
reader comments 9 with 6 posters participating Share this story Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Since it was first published in 2009, the hyper-competitive family strategy game Small World has become a perennial tabletop favorite. Ironically, given its name, its success ..
Enlarge / James Eubanks competes during a Call of Duty final in 2017. Chesnot | Getty Images reader comments 31 with 19 posters participating Share this story In 2008, James “Clayster” Eubanks, then 16, decided he had what it took to be the number one Call of Duty player in the world. Growing up in ..
Enlarge / An illustration of how millions of nanopillars were used to control both the color and intensity of incident light, projecting a faithful reproduction of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring. T. Xu/Nanjing University reader comments 47 with 37 posters participating Share this story Scientists have fabricated tiny “nanopillars” capable of transmitting specific ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 257 with 117 posters participating, including story author Share this story New App Store Review Guidelines published by Apple today open the door for streaming game apps like Google Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud to be available on iOS devices for the first time. But the guidelines also impose ..
reader comments 89 with 61 posters participating, including story author Share this story Fenyx, the star of Immortals: Fenyx Rising. (All images in this article’s galleries were directly captured from my gameplay demo and represent real-time graphics.) Taking flight. Climbing walls with a status indicator. Look familiar? Completing puzzles by manipulating large objects via telekinesis. ..
reader comments 340 with 198 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Timothée Chalamet stars as Paul Atriedes in Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming adaptation of Dune. Warner Bros. debuted the first trailer today for Dune, director Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious (could it be anything else?) adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sprawling epic novel. It was preceded by a ..
reader comments 98 with 73 posters participating, including story author Share this story Today, Microsoft revealed prices for its next-gen consoles: $299 or $499 for an Xbox Series S or Xbox Series X, respectively, starting November 10. But Microsoft is also talking up a smartphone-style program that lets players get either system for no money ..
reader comments 230 with 121 posters participating Share this story No, that’s not a Series X-compatible smart-speaker. That’s the Xbox Series S. Don’t talk to me or my son ever again. The Series S is nearly 60 percent smaller than the Series X, Microsoft says. The Series S comes with a controller that Microsoft is ..
