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The Long Walk is a dystopian slog where brutality is the main point

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When Stephen King's The Long Walk was first published in 1979, dystopian young adult fiction had not yet become a wildly popular genre. With all of its gore and brutality, King's novel wasn't really meant for children. But in the book's story about disillusioned youths being made to march through wastelands as a form of […]

Sierra CEO Bret Taylor on why the AI bubble feels like the dotcom boom

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Welcome to Decoder. This is Alex Heath. For my final episode as your Thursday guest host, I recently sat down with Bret Taylor, the CEO of AI startup Sierra and the chairman of OpenAI, for a live event in San Francisco, California, hosted by Alix Partners.  Very few people have seen the tech industry up […]

Sega reportedly called police after mistakenly scrapping Nintendo dev kits

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A UK-based video game reseller claims Sega was behind a police raid that seized a trove of Nintendo development kits from his home, according to a report from Time Extension. The seller, who reportedly purchased the collection from a scrapyard, accuses Sega of getting the police involved to recover the dev kits after mistakenly throwing […]