• Anal Bead Cheating Scandal Returns, This Time with Chinese Chess

    Anal Bead Cheating Scandal Returns, This Time with Chinese Chess

    Just when I thought I was out, the anal beads pull me back in. Months after the drama between world chess champion Magnus Carlson and young prodigy Hans Niemann ended with an arbitration agreement, the internet isn’t willing to let go of the idea that board game experts can cheat with the aid of vibrating…


  • Jony Ive Poaches Lead iPhone Designer to Work on OpenAI Hardware Device

    Jony Ive Poaches Lead iPhone Designer to Work on OpenAI Hardware Device

    Tang Tan, Apple’s lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive’s hardware firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on Wednesday. Tan is the latest Apple designer to join Ive, which is assembling an Avengers-like team with Sam Altman to create the next era of hardware devices running…


  • Sexing Dinos: Paleontologists Seek Fossilized Hormones

    Sexing Dinos: Paleontologists Seek Fossilized Hormones

    How can you tell if a dinosaur is female or male? It’s one of the most basic aspects of biology and yet, for the most part, it continues to be a mystery in paleontology. We don’t yet know the sex of most extinct species, even if those in museum displays have gender-specific names like Sue…