When journalist and author Talia Lavin first searched online for her new book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, she expected to find the normal things that accompany a book the week of its release: a preorder link, the odd list, and maybe a review or …
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Ann-Marie Delsol squints against the humid Caribbean sun as she points down at the rutted dirt track where the bodies were found in December of 2023. Her employers had been shot and left in their car, which someone set ablaze and pushed into the underbrush. The vehicle could have been …
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On a Friday night a few months ago, I was on a FaceTime call with some friends, other seniors in high school. We were hanging out in our rooms, scrolling through Snapchat, when a friend of mine mentioned a girl he knew from one of our sister schools. He wanted …
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For the last 25 years, Xbox and Halo have been inextricable. The first-person shooter game and its iconic green-armored protagonist, Master Chief, are household names even to non-gamers. For players, the franchise is a key pillar of the Xbox ecosystem — maybe even the pillar. Halo is Xbox, and Xbox …
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Elon Musk is a fan of movies, or pretends to be. He claims that we’re living in a simulation like the one depicted in The Matrix, and that he is one of the chosen few who perceives its structure. He says that Tesla‘s Cybertruck is “what Bladerunner would have driven,” …
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It’s October in the 2020s which means there’s no shortage of true-crime retellings available to stream. Ryan Murphy’s brought Ed Gein back as a uncomfortably sexy, chainsaw wielding killer, Aileen Wuornos’ crimes are being reconsidered in a doc featuring a pre-execution interview, and over on Peacock, John Wayne Gacy is …
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The idea of “true player autonomy” has regularly been a tough goal to achieve in video games. Many role-playing games burst onto the scene promising that your choices will matter, only for that claim to fall flat in practice. Obsidian Entertainment has done an admirable job avoiding those pitfalls in …
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In August, a California family filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that the company’s ChatGPT product had “coached” their 16-year-old son into committing suicide in April of this year. According to the complaint, Adam Raine began using the AI bot in the …
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Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups have been arrested on charges connected to an FBI investigation into illegal gambling. FBI director Kash Patel announced a “historic arrest” on Thursday at a press conference where he spoke about “a wide, sweeping criminal enterprise that …
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D riving north on state Route 56 as you enter Jackson County, Tennessee, the road winds through lush, green hills, past a few homes, an abandoned auto shop, and the Country Cabin Quik Market before reaching a large billboard. Pull forward into the parking lot of Fatboy’s Barbie-Q, where sweet, …
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