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Halo Is Another Carcass on the Heap of Bad Video Game Adaptations

The new Paramount+ series underestimates gamer audiences and falls into the “content-delivery” trap, losing the excitement of gameplay along the way.
Security

A Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine

The biggest hack since Russia’s war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
Security

Putin and Biden Must Choose: How Does Russia Want to Lose?

As Russia's failures mount in its war against Ukraine, can Biden prevent an isolated Putin from doing the unthinkable?
Science

Scientists Watch a Memory Form in a Living Brain

While observing fearful memories take shape in the brains of fish, neuroscientists saw an unexpected level of synaptic rewiring.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Is Russia’s Largest Tech Company Too Big to Fail?

It took 20 years for Arkady Volozh to build Yandex into Russia’s Google, Uber, Spotify, and Amazon combined. It took 20 days for everything to crumble.