Tag: Books & Publishing
Kindle Scribe hands-on: You can scribble on your books
Seventeen years is an odd anniversary to call out. But at an event launching four new Kindles, Amazon’s head of devices and services Panos Panay reminded a group of media that “Kindle is 17 years in the making, almost to the day.” Panay added that the device is currently seeing…
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What to read this weekend: The Night Guest, Is Earth Exceptional? and Into the Unbeing
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir Anyone who lives with a difficult-to-diagnose chronic illness and has endured the demoralizing process of trying to get proper treatment can tell you it is, at times, a living nightmare. Advocating for yourself,…
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What to read this weekend: Cosmic horror sci-fi, and the quest to understand how life began
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir Anyone who lives with a difficult-to-diagnose chronic illness and has endured the demoralizing process of trying to get proper treatment can tell you it is, at times, a living nightmare. Advocating for yourself,…
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NYT Connections bot uses AI to highlight each day’s top mistakes
Connections, the daily word game from The New York Times, isn’t exactly easy. In fact, the solve rate dips below 50 percent some days. To help highlight where players are going wrong, a new bot is employing AI to guess the thought process they’re using for the most common mistakes…
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What to read this weekend: Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen There’s something about the idea of coming home and reawakening dormant familial trauma that just makes for great horror stories, and Sacrificial Animals is no exception. In the novel, brothers Nick and Joshua Morrow return to…
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The Plucky Squire expertly transforms old ideas into something new
It feels like The Plucky Squire has been popping up at game events forever. It first came onto my radar during one of publisher Devolver Digital’s bizarre showcases in 2022, and was instantly appealing. Yesterday, Devolver announced it would be coming out in just over a month, on September 17.…
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