For academics, historians and activists, the past year has been tumultuous in advocating for the teaching of Black history in ...

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Orville and Wilbur Wright tested their flying machine that would later become the modern airplane at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Orville piloted the first flight and it lasted 12 seconds, traveling ...

Joe Mauer was everything that a baseball fan could ever dream of. From Minnesota, the Twins drafted a hometown kid No. 1 overall in 2001. Mauer stayed with the Twins for 15 seasons, then became a ...

Valve made waves last month upon the announcement of a slew of new Steam hardware. The company launched a sequel to the Steam Controller and course-corrected the metaverse with the Steam Frame. But ...

Known for his never-ending cardio inside the Octagon and his delightfully daredevil persona outside of it, there has long been a feeling that Merab Dvalishvili, the reigning UFC bantamweight champion ...

For most of my life, I've been a console gamer. From the moment I got a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) as a combination birthday and Christmas present at the tail end of 1986, I became absolutely ...

Artist Kelsey Graywill installed the Hyperlocal Durham vending machine in late October at Durham Food Hall. At Durham Food Hall, a new vending machine has become the subject of much intrigue – instead ...

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The Steam Machine marks Valve’s long-awaited return to the console wars. It looks slick and sounds powerful enough to play modern games on decent settings. But Valve is leaving the biggest question of ...

From the Antikythera Mechanism to Tesla’s so-called earthquake machine, history is full of inventions that vanished too soon. These lost machines raise one question: how advanced were we, really?