In 2016, an 18-year-old North Korean math prodigy vanished from his Olympiad team in Hong Kong. He wasn't running from prison, he was running from recruitment. Pyongyang wanted him for its elite ...

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The story of video games starts in dimly lit arcades where glowing cabinets swallowed every spare coin. Over fifty years later, consoles, phones, and cloud servers have turned that simple pastime into ...

This was one game he couldn’t win. Daniel Naroditsky, one of the world’s greatest chess players, was a child prodigy who went on to become America’s greatest ambassador for the sport — before baseless ...

Bodhana Sivanandan, a 10-year-old chess prodigy from London, made headlines over the summer after she became the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster. This week, Sivanandan reached ...

Bodhana Sivanandan’s win is a step toward becoming the youngest grandmaster Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from Emerson College in ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. More than a month before the release of Pokemon Legends: Z-A, Nintendo announced that paid DLC is already on the way to the upcoming monster-catching ...

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Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...

Julián F.L. is a Video Game & Anime expert, historian & journalist with a lot of passion for these subjects and over 10 years of experience in writing about them. He knows every single Pokémon by ...