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This puzzle game’s simple premise hides surprising depth
What's the Password? has a simple concept: To solve each of the game's more than 100 puzzles, you have to type in the right four-digit password on a number pad. That might sound like a limited constraint. But the simplicity gives solo developer Dan DiIorio, better known as TrampolineTales, lots of room to play with clever ideas. Over the course of a few hours, the game never stopped surprising me. Puzzle clues come in several different formats. Some are written text; the very first puzzle is a s
This might be the new best smart speaker
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 134, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're okay in all this heat, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Polymarket lies and Jalen Brunson and the Arts and Crafts Movement, watching Not Suitable for Work and way too much of the World Cup, trying to catch up on The Bear before the final season starts, playing a bunch of Hank Green'
Third-Party Breaches Teach Education Sector a Costly Lesson in Vendor Risk
Rising threats from third-party actors are forcing institutions to play defense to protect student data from ransomware and other attacks.
The case for physical media ownership
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Apple and Audi alumni have made a luxe EV based on the moon buggy
The Amble One is a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy designed for luxury resorts.
DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
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