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The Stealth Campaign That’s Getting Your Kids Hooked on Chess
Pandemic boredom and a Netflix mini-series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” added to the game’s sudden popularity. But Chess.com was also plotting its own moves.
Finding the Pentagon Leak Suspect
How The Times identified the suspect at the center of the Pentagon leak before the authorities announced his name.
Can K-Pop Make the Metaverse Cool?
In the world’s testing ground for tech, K-pop singers are being spun up out of pixels and doing battle in a virtual universe.
Unions and Video Games
Gaming is a huge industry, and workers are trying to unionize.
Fighting a Brutal Regime With the Help of a Video Game
Opponents of the coup in Myanmar have flocked to a new online game that lets players shoot virtual soldiers while raising money for the real-life resistance.
How Your Sense of Direction Is Shaped by Where You Grew Up
Childhood environments shape people’s navigational skills, researchers reported. The findings one day may lead to better tests for early dementia.
Your Thursday Briefing: Zelensky Speaks to Congress
Plus an offshore earthquake in Japan and mass graves in Syria.
Genshin Impact, Smash Hit From China, Beats Japan at Its Own Game
Genshin Impact, a nearly picture-perfect reproduction of Japanese fantasy role-playing games, has raked in billions of dollars and sent shock waves through the world’s aging video game superpower.
Chinese Company Uses Facial Recognition to Restrict Teen Gamers’ Use
Tencent Games says it has been using facial recognition to enforce China’s rules on how much time people under 18 can spend playing video games.