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Games

Hearthstone goes back to school with Scholomance Academy expansion

The key details on the latest Hearthstone expansion: Scholomance Academy! Spellbursts, Dual Class, and a living Kel'Thuzad?

Picking Your Battles

Facebook can be a place for good. It has those pockets all over its swampy landscape. Demanding it be better is more important when it’s urgent it gets on with the job of fixing runaway racism, conspiracies, and anti-scientific bloviation.

It's over before it begins

No time for a column today, but I do want to say I’m admitting defeat in my quest to truly delete myself from Facebook. I’ve had multiple occasions over the past week where I have had professional reasons to use the service. To not be able to report

Stress fractures

If we want to truly process things, we need to slow down a little to absorb information.

Clean slates

Hitting "mark all read" sometimes can be a liberating feeling.

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

How many straws can be the 'last' when it comes to staying on Facebook?

A thousand words

The big questions about facial recognition technology have been coming home to roost.

The future of Byteside

Preamble this week is some transparency in the thick of tricky times. To be clear, I’m not stopping or closing or pausing or anything. So don’t fret, faithful readers! I hope the future is bright! My aim in the second half of 2020 is to put more emphasis

Home

Sonos Arc review: raising the bar for the future?

Sonos Arc resets the home theatre experience for Sonos fans, ready for the decade ahead with Dolby Atmos support alongside best in class audio streaming.

Who's driving?

You can’t plot a course and then give everyone a steering wheel, or just give everyone their own map whether they know how to read it or not.