Among Us: You’re the Impostor
When an indie game company created Among Us in 2018, it was greeted with little fanfare. The multiplayer game remained under the radar as many games do — until the summer of the pandemic. Eager…
Read MoreElection Tech That’s Super Simple
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Friends, I love technology that is deceptively simple and actually helpful to human beings. So I present…
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Paleontologists See Stars as Software Bleeps Scientific Terms
The trouble started when Thomas R. Holtz Jr., an expert on the Tyrannosaurus rex, typed “Hell Creek Formation,” the rock unit in Montana where the remains of North America’s last giant dinosaurs have been found.…
Read MoreWhat Went Viral This Week
Here at Daily Distortions, we try to debunk false and misleading information that has gone viral. We also want to give you a sense of how popular that misinformation is, in the overall context of…
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Pakistan Rescinds TikTok Ban
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Just 10 days after introducing a ban on TikTok, the Pakistani authorities said on Monday that they were reversing the decision after receiving assurance from the Chinese-owned social media platform that it…
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As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place
The instructions were clear: Write an article calling out Sara Gideon, a Democrat running for a hotly contested U.S. Senate seat in Maine, as a hypocrite. Angela Underwood, a freelance reporter in upstate New York,…
Read MoreAs Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place
A nationwide operation of 1,300 local sites publishes coverage that is ordered up by Republican groups and corporate P.R. firms.Read MoreNYT > Technology
Read MoreRemote but Inclusive for Years, and Now Showing Other Companies How
Ultranauts has been developing creative ways to hire, manage and motivate a far-flung and diverse work force for seven years.Read MoreNYT > Technology
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Remote but Inclusive for Years, and Now Showing Other Companies How
From her home in Beaverton, Ore., Jamie Davila leads a team of eight engineers in seven states for the technology start-up Ultranauts. Like millions of other people during these work-from-home times, she relies on popular…
Read MorePaleontologists See Stars as Software Bleeps Scientific Terms
When their annual conference was moved online, they were amused to find seemingly benign words blocked and replaced with asterisks during virtual sessions.Read MoreNYT > Technology
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