The Quest to Resurrect Three of the 90s’ Most Important CD-ROM Games for Girls
Theresa Duncan was the author of three iconic CD-ROM graphic adventure games for young girls — “Chop Suey,” “Smarty,” and “Zero Zero” — all released in the 1990s. Google her name, however, and you might have a hard time finding information about her work.
December 18, 2014 at 06:03AM
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The largest vessel the world has ever seen
Climbing onto the largest vessel the world has ever seen brings you into a realm where everything is on a bewilderingly vast scale and ambition knows no bounds.
December 17, 2014 at 11:54PM
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The New York Times
Turning around a technology company has been historically rare. In order to revive Yahoo as a product company, Mayer had to try to treat it as a giant start-up itself.
December 17, 2014 at 03:35PM
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Feds used Adobe Flash to identify Tor users visiting child porn sites
“Operation Torpedo,” as the FBI sting operation was dubbed, targeted users of three darknet child porn sites
December 17, 2014 at 03:35PM
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Netflix: Offline video watching is “never going to happen”
On Wednesday, a Netflix PR director spoke definitively on the subject of offline video watching, declaring that the option was “never going to happen” for users of the Netflix streaming app.
December 17, 2014 at 01:29PM
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Expect A Gentler Valleywag In 2015
“If I had my druthers, I’d write about AI, and supercomputers, and fusion energy. I don’t really care about who’s fucking whom,” new Valleywag editor Dan Lyons tells TechCrunch signaling a tone shift for the tech tabloid.
December 17, 2014 at 10:06AM
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SpaceX Reuseable Falcon 9 Ocean Landing
The most monumental part of this Friday’s SpaceX launch will not be what goes up, but what comes down.
December 17, 2014 at 07:50AM
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The inside story of how the Uber-Portland negotiations broke down. So, what happened?
Portland and Uber seem like an ideal match of city and startup service. So, what happened?
December 17, 2014 at 07:50AM
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How to Fool a Computer with Optical Illusions
Computers, like people, understand what they see in the world based on what they’ve seen before. And computer brains have become really, really good at being able to identify all kinds of things. But that doesn’t mean that computers see all those things the same way that people do.
December 17, 2014 at 05:15AM
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Filmmakers Will Have to Adopt New Ways of Storytelling to Make Virtual-Reality Movies
As long as humans have visual cortices, we’re going to want to make art that reflects the way we see the world. Now the technology is finally catching up.
December 17, 2014 at 04:15AM
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