Chris Baraniuk

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Chris Baraniuk

NowVideo game movies often get a bad rap. It’s a small genre, and many of the films in it aren’t very good. However, there are also some real gems. The best video game movies often come from the action, animation, and horror genres, but others come from genres like mystery or drama. While many of the …

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Chris Baraniuk

A second-hand Zelda cartridge. A cryptic forum thread. A generation of frightened children. This is the story of Ben Drowned – the internet's most infamous video game ghost. It was Christmas Eve and 10-year-old Saarthak Johri couldn't sleep – but not because of excitement. He was shot through with fear. It was roughly a decade ago and Johri was a kid growing up in Saginaw, Michigan, in the US. He had spent the day slumped in an easy chair, staring at his phone, totally absorbed in an online urban myth.

1 week ago | bbc.com | Chris Baraniuk

Ghost in the machine? How a 'haunted' N64 video game cartridge terrified children around the worldAlamy/ BBCA second-hand Zelda cartridge. A cryptic forum thread. A generation of frightened children. This is the story of Ben Drowned – the internet's most infamous video game ghost. It was Christmas Eve and 10-year-old Saarthak Johri couldn't sleep – but not because of excitement. He was shot through with fear. It was roughly a decade ago and Johri was a kid growing up in Saginaw, Michigan, in the US.

1 week ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Chris Baraniuk

Una gran cantidad de datos científicos están siendo eliminados de los sitios web del gobierno estadounidense, poniendo en riesgo décadas de investigación sobre salud, cambio climático y fenómenos meteorológicos extremos. Un grupo de científicos está luchando para salvar su trabajo antes de que se pierda. Algunos de ellos están en Estados Unidos. Otros están dispersos por todo el mundo. Hay cientos, o hasta miles, de personas involucradas en múltiples redes. Y vigilan de cerca sus teléfonos.

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Chris Baraniuk

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