I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting … Read more
Twenty years ago my husband, Mark, broke his left ankle and was in a cast and on crutches for nearly two months. Last year he broke the other ankle. But this time, after surgery, his doctor surprised us by instructing … Read more
Born in 1878 on a Finnish atoll to a family of fishermen and shipbuilders, Tom Sukanen (birthname Tomi Jaanus Alankola) sailed to America at the age of 20 only to end up in the landlocked state of Minnesota. There he married a … Read more
The games of Revolution Software bore the stamp of the places in which they were conceived. Work on Beneath a Steel Sky, the company’s breakthrough graphic adventure, began in Hull, a grim postindustrial town in the north of England, and … Read more
Feature It was the middle of harvest, and Sarah Rachor wasn’t happy. Rachor, who runs a farm with her father in Sidney, Montana, was baling hay in the field when the tractor she was using shut down without warning. The … Read more
Rebecca Cook/Reuters Retired municipal worker Debora Pickett and others at a protest against proposed cuts to the pensions and health benefits of Detroit’s employees after the city filed for bankruptcy, April 2014 After almost thirty-eight years as a technical assistant … Read more