Idle Stories for 2022

Customers React to McDonalds' Almost Fully-Automated Restaurant 221
Over 50 Programmers Generate 50,000-Word Novels For 9th Annual 'Nanogenmo' Event 12
Why the Internet Invented a Fake Martin Scorsese Film Called 'Goncharov' 34
Douglas Adams was Right. Science Journal Proves 42 Is the Address of the Universe 98
Can Talking to Strangers Make Us Smarter? 72
How 'Homestar Runner' Re-Emerged After the End of Flash 28
Elon Musk's Newest Venture: Selling a $100 Perfume 140
Disney World Plans a Tron-Themed Rollercoaster: 'Lightcycle Run' 31
San Francisco Transit Center Criticized over Restaurant's Plans for Expensive NFT-Based Private Club 166
A Robot Quarterback Could Be the Future of Football Practice 25
Cellphone at Third Base: Baseball Player Mistakenly Runs the Bases with His iPhone 38
'I Landed a (Model) Rocket Like SpaceX. It Took 7 Years' 33
Should Baseball Teams Use Technology to Stop Sign-Stealing? 85
Over Half a Century, Bill Gates Has Been Playing Pickleball 43
CERN Is Totally Not Opening a Portal To Hell 214
$TWINKcoin: Hostess Releases a New Crypto-themed Twinkie 63
British Army's Twitter and YouTube Accounts Compromised to Promote Crypto Scams 16
Why MapQuest, Jeeves, and Other 'Internet Zombies' are Still Around 49
Crop Circles - and Why People Believed in Them 83
'Doom' Game Ported To Run As a Coreboot BIOS Payload 17
Star Trek Wines: the Next Generation. Ars Technica Taste-Tests Klingon Blood Wine 20
NFT Conference Founder Predicts 97% of Current Projects Will Lose Value Through 2024 60
Sid & Marty Krofft to Release NFTs Starting with 'Land of the Lost' 58
Twitter Turns Its Privacy Policy Into a Videogame about a Dog 22
70-Year-Old Cyberpunk: 'This Interview Is a Mistake' 37
50 Years Later: a Rebirth for Polaroid's 'Instant Cameras'? 46
Two Skydiving Pilots Try to Change Planes in Mid-Air 102
The Exotic Legend of the Dark Knight Alien Satellite Meets Mundane Reality 41
How Do You Like Ubuntu's New Logo? 132
Largest Plane Ever Built May Have Been Destroyed, Ukraine Foreign Minister Says 152
Gawker Argues Because of the Internet, 'We Are All Cranks Now' 76
OpenAI Cofounder Mocked for Tweeting That Neural Networks Might Be Slightly Conscious 175
Are TED Talks Just Propaganda For the Technocracy? 151
Florida is So Cold Iguanas are Falling Out of Trees 110
New NFT Series Announced - By Cheech and Chong 60
'Worst of CES' Awards Announced by Right-to-Repair/Privacy Advocates 66

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