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Why colleges are going out of business
Students outside the Hampshire College library in Amherst, Massachusetts, on November 28, 2016. | Joanne Rathe/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Higher education is in crisis. Last week, Hampshire...
The US gets the worst phones
Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they've done so for years. Together with Google, they've shaped our sense of what a smartphone is and what it can do, pushing the boundaries of...
Vampire Crawlers, Peter Molyneux’s return and other new indie games worth checking out
Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. If you're looking for something new to play this weekend, we've got a bunch of options for you. We've also got some...
How charities should handle the next Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein was not the first wealthy person to use philanthropy to win over powerful friends. | Martin Bureau/AFP Not everybody acquiesced when Jeffrey Epstein came bearing gifts. Harvard...
Live Nation lost. Will anything change for ticket prices?
After years of complaints and lawsuits, as well as the fallout from the 2022 Taylor Swift Eras Tour ticket sale controversy, the states took the case to trial and won. On April 15, a federal jury...
Are the latest Iran talks for real?
Steve Witkoff (R) and Jared Kushner (L) at a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 12, 2026. | Jacquelyn Martin/pool/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily...
XChat, the standalone app for messaging on X, is available on iOS now
XChat, the standalone app for accessing X's messaging feature, is available to download now for iOS. X first suggested it would be stripping direct messaging from X in 2025, but at least for now,...
Maine governor vetoes bill temporarily banning large data centers in the state
The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, has vetoed a bill that halts the construction of large data centers in the state until the fall of 2027. While the bill passed both houses of the Maine's...
Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time
Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day. Microsoft is rolling out some long-awaited changes to Windows Update to users on its Dev and...
A Battlefield movie adaptation is on the way, possibly starring Michael B. Jordan
Have you ever noticed how Walgreens and CVS locations often end up across the street from each other? Well, Call of Duty and Battlefield have a similar thing going on. A mere eight days after the...