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Devotion Is a Brilliant Videogame—Too Bad You Can't Play It

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As it stands, if you don’t already own Devotion, you can't play it. The game, developed by the Taiwanese team Red Candle Games, is no longer on Steam. This is maybe, hopefully, temporary. But at this moment, it's a game mired in mystery and controversy, a messy geopolitical situation threatening to overshadow what is also […]

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The Streaming Wars Began in 2018—and They'll Only Get Worse

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It was one of the most hectic Twitter episodes of the year: The One Where Everyone Freaked Out About Friends Going Away. Earlier this month, a few Netflix users noticed that the beloved series, still one of the most-watched sitcoms in the world, was scheduled to depart the streamer in January. Twitter went into shock-and-aww […]

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USDA Clamps Down on Staffers Using the Term 'Climate Change'

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Click:高仿包包哪里买 This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Staff at the US Department of Agriculture have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference “weather extremes” instead. A series of emails obtained by the Guardian between staff at the Natural Resources […]

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Netflix’s Cam Is a Horror Movie for the Influencer Age

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Webcam models, who livestream erotic performances for a paying audience, can’t afford to be queasy about the risks or nastiness of internet culture. Their audiences’ gaze (along with covetous commentary) is the source of their livelihood, driving a 20-year-old, multibillion-dollar industry. To succeed, cam models walk a near impossible line: bringing voyeurs close enough to […]

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RIP Stan Lee, the Man Who Made Comics Cool

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Stan Lee, the avuncular, controversial longtime writer and publisher of Marvel Comics, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 95 years old. Popping a big character death on people like that was just the kind of thing Lee liked. “Stan Lee—dead! No! No, it can’t be!” The man who first understood that with great power […]

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How Mindfulness Meditation Can Save America

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There’s a reason some people laugh when I say that mindfulness meditation can save the United States—that it can dampen the political polarization now dividing the country; that it can defuse the hatreds that have propelled the word “tribal” into our political vocabulary and have led serious commentators to compare the US in 2017 to […]

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Disney Won't Stop Deadpool From Dropping F-Bombs

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Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED's look at all that's new and news in the world of pop culture, from casting news to TV show renewals. What’s on the docket today? The Walking Dead is getting (another) new season, Anya Taylor-Joy and Edgar Wright are teaming up, and Disney […]

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Retracting Bad Science Doesn’t Make It Disappear

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Imagine you're a scientist. You published a paper in a reputable journal a couple of years ago, and that paper has made an impact in your field of study. It has shaped your own research and has inspired others to pursue similar lines of investigation. Thanks to that paper, you're enjoying a certain status among […]

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SpaceX Launches Its 12th Resupply Mission to the ISS

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Update: SpaceX successfully launched and re-landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to resupply the International Space Station. On Monday, SpaceX is poised to end a 40-day launch drought in the United States with a cargo run to the International Space Station. The commercial space outfit will fire off its 12th resupply service mission […]

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Why Are Bear Cams So Magical? An Investigation

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Her name is Bear 409—Beadnose to her fans—and she had been crowned Katmai National Park’s Fattest Bear of 2018. On Tuesday, she edged out her competition, Bear 747—an ursidae so rutund his belly nearly scrapes the ground—by 4,000 votes in an online competition. GIFs of her impressive transformation from svelte salmon snatcher to a half-ton […]