In Iran, the endgame began with Trump’s threat of massive destruction if Iran did not open the Strait of Hormuz, and it will continue until the belligerents come to a stable agreement ending ...

A new Armenian coffee shop opened on Feb. 21 this year. Is it in Los Angeles? Watertown? Detroit, Philly, New York?

It was actually fully usable for my needs ...

Japanese electronics giant Sony built the robotic arm it calls Ace and pitted it against professional athletes. Ace proved a ...

Members describe DCTRL – pronounced variously as decentral or decontrol – as Vancouver’s longest-running decentralized tech ...

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, ...

Checkmate! On Friday, turn-based chess roguelike Gambonanza officially launched on PC via Steam, iOS, and Android. The ...

A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using ...

Julia Gale is one of the co-founders of Beers by the Bay Chess & Social, a social club started with co-founders Mark Laturno and Aidan Ryan in 2024. It works just like the name says—they meet up each ...

Gambonanza is a Roguelike that feels very much like chess combined with Balatro, and wow does it work. Here's our full review ...

IT’S long been seen as the bastion of geeks and brainiacs but the world of chess has had its fair share of shocking scandals. One of the most infamous episodes in the game, the ‘sex toy’ conspiracy, ...