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'No Man's Sky' Is Getting an iPhone, iPad Version That Will be Available on the App Store

Hello Games' No Man's Sky is now coming to iPhones and iPads, and it will be available directly on the App Store.

Player One · Oct 13

Is Wikipedia ‘deeply biased’? Sandi Toksvig says it is – so she’s backing a rival

Just 19% of the online encyclopedia’s biographies are of women. Is this because it’s edited by ‘mostly white, middle-aged, European men’, as the comedian claims?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12

Giant Tortoises Now Outnumber The Entire Human Population Of This Nation By A Mind-Boggling Margin

Imagine an island where giant tortoises outnumber the humans living in the entire country. This is the reality for one island off the coast of East Africa.

Bored Panda · Oct 9

My dad was legendary commentator - now I'm fighting to save historic football site

My dad was a legendary commentator - now I'm fighting to save historic football site

The National (Scotland) · Sep 25

Why Lizzie Borden Was Found Not Guilty Despite Damning Evidence Against Her

Lizzie Borden was acquitted despite suspicious evidence surrounding the 1892 slaying of her father and stepmother, but key testimony and evidence could not be used against her at trial.

Bored Panda · Sep 19

80 Weirdly Specific WikiHow Images Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needs To See

WikiHow is supposed to help you figure things out, but its illustrations are famously so bizarre they often look more like memes than actual tutorials. r/notdisneyvacation has made a whole community out of spotting the strangest ones. Between the oddly specific instructions and wonderfully out-of-pocket drawings, there’s plenty here to…

Bored Panda · Sep 18

What the Bayeux tapestry reveals about medieval buildings on both sides of the Channel

For many, the Bayeux tapestry conjures up images of clinker-built ships, prancing horses, the Normans feasting on chicken on the eve of the battle of Hastings, and the arrow in King Harold’s eye that ended centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule.

The Conversation · Sep 16

Federal Court Allows Libel-by-AI Claim (Brought by Protagonist of Apple TV's Black Bird Series) to Go Forward

From today's decision by Judge Thomas Durkin (N.D. Ill.) in Keene v. Google LLC: Keene is an author, television producer,… The post Federal Court Allows Libel-by-AI Claim (Brought by Protagonist of Apple TV's Black Bird Series) to Go Forward appeared first on Reason Magazine.

Reason · Sep 14

EU probing OpenAI agents' takeover of German site

The European Union on Monday said it was "looking into" an incident revealed last week during which thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website. The agents -- AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step…

The Economic Times · Sep 8

Bayeux tapestry: Matilda of Flanders – the woman who was instrumental to William the Conqueror’s success

Just three women appear in the main body of the Bayeux tapestry: Edith of Wessex, shown grieving at the deathbed of her husband Edward the Confessor; the mysterious and much-debated shrouded figure named Ælfgyva; and a woman fleeing a burning building with her child. Missing from the tapestry is the…

The Conversation · Sep 1