PC Gaming Handhelds Are Getting Ridiculously Expensive
Big Cult of the Lamb DLC and even bigger PC gaming handhelds. Welcome to the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. I am still recovering from the Ph… [read more]
Inside the lucrative surreal and disturbing world of AI trainers
Serhan Tekklç listened intently on a Zoom call as his friend on the screen recounted the first time she had ever felt sad. A 28-year-old mixed media artist, Tekklç had not planned on having a profoun… [read more]
I stayed at a 99-year-old hotel in Montauk for $490. It hasn’t lost any of its 1920s charm.
Montauk Manor was completed in 1926.Jonah Rosenberg for Business Insider
Montauk Manor has been a Hamptons institution since it opened its doors in 1926.During my stay in August, I … [+11096 chars]read more
Yondr’s CEO who makes cellphone pouches for schools and concerts uses only a flip phone — and stays off social media
Graham Dugoni, CEO of Yondr, the company that makes phone pouches for schools.Yondr / ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
Yondr makes the zippered pouches that people in school and at concerts… [+6917 chread more
We were tired of suburban life so we traded it all in for life in the wilds of northern Minnesota. We’ve never felt more at home.
Kate Westlund Tovsen in Minnesota in winter.Courtesy of Kate Westlund Tovsen
We left our house in the suburbs for a mobile home half the size in northern Minnesota.We were really in… [+5038 chars]read more
A top Goldman prime broker lays out why it’s getting easier to launch a hedge fund
NASA’s space shuttle Challenger launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 28, 1986, disturbing nearby flocks of birds.NASA
Goldman Sachs prime brokerage exec Kristin Kramer gave Busi… [+4370 chread more
After Hurricane Katrina evacuees changed Houston and the city changed them
HOUSTON When Jermaine Moore needs a haircut, he looks for barbers from New Orleans. At a Shaving Grace barbershop in the southeast Houston area, he’s found one.
“New Orleans barbers cut different,” … [read more]
Brothers set new record for 9000-mile Pacific row
Steven McKenzieBBC Scotland News
The brothers started their challenge four and a half months ago
Three brothers from Edinburgh have claimed a new record for rowing non-stop and unsupported across t… [read more]
Saving China’s finless porpoise from the brink of extinction
Stephen McDonell
Watch: Endangered porpoises at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan, China
Chinese scientists are in a battle to save one of the last large animal species living in the Yangtze R… [read more]