‘Escape From Tarkov’ Won’t Include Playable Women Characters

Welcome to the first of Replay in the new decade! It might be a new year, but we're up to our old tricks: namely, bringing you the latest videogame news. Quite a bit has happened since our last installment. Fret not, we'll catch you up. Let's get started.No, the Developers of Escape From Tarkov Will…

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Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years

In March of last year, Mark Zuckerberg made a dramatic pledge: Facebook would apply end-to-end encryption to user communications across all of its platforms by default. The move would grant strong new protections to well over a billion users. It's also not happening anytime soon.What Zuckerberg didn't spell out at the time is just how…

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Why Scientists Are Flying Drones Into Clouds of Whale Snot

For most of us, moments of inspiration come when we're daydreaming in the shower, or when an apple falls out of a tree and hits us on the head (or doesn't—it in fact fell near Newton). For Iain Kerr, CEO of the conservation group Ocean Alliance, inspiration comes when you're on a boat in the…

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Bored with Sunday Service? Maybe Nudist Church Is Your Thing

A nudist church in Virginia where the pastor delivers sermons in his birthday suit. A drive-in church in Florida where parishioners can attend services from the comfort of their cars. A 500-foot-long, “Biblically accurate” reconstruction of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky. These wild and woolly corners of American Christianity are the focal points of French photographer…

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Waymo’s Anca Dragan and Ike Robotics CTO Jur van den Berg are coming to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI

The road to “solving” self-driving cars is riddled with challenges, from perception and decision making to figuring out the interaction between humans and robots. Today we’re announcing that joining us…

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