The first PC game to stick in Nelson Jr's brain was Sid Meier's Pirates!, the 2004 remake of the 1987 piracy simulator. "I think [it's] one of the most perfect examples of what a ...

YouTuber and orbital mechanics expert Scott Manley has successfully landed a virtual Kerbal astronaut on the Mun, the in-game moon of Kerbal Space Program, using a ZX Spectrum home computer equipped ...

The new MMORPG based on the Apple TV+ adaptation of Foundation isn't quite what you'd imagine a game based on the series to ...

Sean Murray's follow-up to an infinite sci-fi universe is a single planet—but it's a big one.

With Gemini and a simple Python script, I rebuilt YouTube email alerts. Now I won't miss another comment. Here's how you can ...

So, you want to get better at those tricky LeetCode Python problems, huh? It’s a common goal, especially if you’re aiming for ...

Board game fans can attest that a growing collection of titles can start to become unwieldy. As a fan myself, I often want to add another captivating game to my board game bookcase. However, I’ve had ...

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 ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments already listening to the Earth itself. By tapping into networks of ...

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Tens of thousands of human-made objects orbiting the Earth could pose a risk to life, infrastructure and the environment when they fall through the atmosphere. Typically the space debris is tracked ...