A newly released toxicology report says influential American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died of an abnormal heartbeat caused by an accidental overdose ...

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For a game whose rules can be taught to a small child, chess is bewilderingly complicated—there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe, and despite the ...

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TL;DR: Microsoft highlights 2025 Windows PC gaming advances, including full-screen handheld support, Windows on Arm improvements, and DirectX Raytracing 1.2. Despite recent performance issues on ...

Who hasn’t thought to themselves, I’d really like to play something new again, but unfortunately my wallet looks so empty. These days, a full-price game costs at least $70–sometimes even more. There ...

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As the chess world grieves the death of 29-year-old grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky – including those who marveled at his brilliance from his days as a first grader in Foster City to his graduation from ...

The Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world's first video games, but as the video above proves, it also works as an enormous and ...

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