Coronavirus Fears Spark a Run on Nintendo's Ring Fit Adventure
Bryan McFarland, a 33-year-old in Mesa, Arizona, started looking for a copy of Ring Fit Adventure three weeks ago. The nearest one listed online as selling Ring Fit Adventure was in Da…
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Sony Envisions an AI-Fueled World, From Kitchen Bots to Games
Kitano now leads a new effort at Sony, announced in November, to infuse cutting-edge AI across the company. Kitano says Sony believes AI is making such rapid progress that the company neede…
The Eerie Repopulation of the Fukushima Exclusion Zone
In March, when cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom, the Japanese leg of the Olympic Torch relay will kick off at a soccer stadium 12 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (yes, that…
Weathering With You Is an Environmental Power Fantasy
In the new anime movie Weathering With You, a teenager named Hina treks up 10 flights to a rooftop where a makeshift shrine sits in a rare beam of sunlight. The movie cuts to Hina falling throug…
Shenmue III Defies All Expectations—in a Good Way, Mostly
The first two Shenmue games, both released for the Sega Dreamcast at the turn of the century, are by now the stuff of legend. Along the way, Ryo fights baddies, races forklifts, plays arcade gam…
Are Saturn’s Rings Really as Young as the Dinosaurs?
Previously, planetary scientists had assumed that Saturn’s rings were as old as the solar system itself—about 4.5 billion years old. “The rings look young, but that doesn’t mean the rings are re…
WeWork’s Failure is SoftBank’s Day Of Reckoning
In the wake of WeWork’s failed IPO last month, schadenfreude fans had a lot to cheer from Adam Neumann’s fall from grace. But that misses the broader point that WeWork reflects only the most rec…
Cicadas Primed for Defense
"Their life cycles have been suspicious since the beginning," said John Cooley, who collaborated on the research with researchers in Japan. A leading theory is that long, prime-nu…
The Glorious, Almost-Disconnected Boredom of My Walk in Japan
My intent is then to respond to the responses in aggregate, long after the walk is finished. And the purpose of time-shifted conversation is to share the walk without being pulled away from…
Elite Athletes Are Changing How They Train for Extreme Heat
It’s so hot that for the first time ever, the marathon is scheduled to start at midnight to reduce the risk of heat stroke. Sweating is how the body releases that heat, and its evaporation creat…