Enlarge / Section of the so-called “Tavistock letter,” written by Charles Dickens in his idiosyncratic shorthand. The crowd-sourced transcription, now 70 percent complete, reveals a dispute between Dickens and The Times of London. reader comments 18 with 14 posters participating Share this story Last October, a collaboration called The Dickens Code project made a public ..
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Enlarge / Artist’s rendition of EA saying goodbye to Russia for this expansion pack. reader comments 61 with 41 posters participating Share this story The “My Wedding Stories” expansion pack for The Sims 4 won’t be released in Russia, publisher Electronic Arts said. That’s due to a “gay-propaganda” law in the country that would have ..
Enlarge / Despite the prominent “Xbox” in this image, Microsoft suggests some of these popular Activision titles could persist on PlayStation “into the future.” reader comments 16 with 14 posters participating Share this story Microsoft now says that it has “committed to Sony” that “Call of Duty and other popular Activision titles” will be “available ..
Enlarge / In Elden Ring, you get a horse. Bandai Namco reader comments 9 with 9 posters participating Share this story Last month, publisher Namco Bandai took down its online player-versus-player servers for all PC Dark Souls games after players found a serious vulnerability that allowed for remote execution of malicious code on an opponent’s ..
reader comments 76 with 58 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Amanda Seyfried stars as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s new original series, The Dropout. Regular Ars readers have no doubt been following our ongoing coverage of the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial. The disgraced Theranos founder’s meteoric rise and equally rapid fall has already ..
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Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Trinity College reader comments 48 with 38 posters participating Share this story On October 21, 1638, people were congregating at a church at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, in Devon, England, when a severe thunderstorm broke out. Witnesses described an 8-foot ball of fire hurtling through the church, tossing large stones from the ..
reader comments 29 with 22 posters participating Share this story Star Citizen developers Cloud Imperium Games’ new public development roadmap will no longer include target dates for coming features more than one calendar quarter away. The change, the company writes, is largely to avoid “distraction” and “continued noise every time we shift deliverables” from “a ..
reader comments 74 with 60 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] The Orville: New Horizons returns, after a nearly three-year hiatus, to its new home on Hulu. We’re unabashed fans of The Orville here at Ars Technica, and like everyone else, we’ve keenly felt the absence of the series following its explosive S2 finale ..
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