Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.

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Unreal Engine can now create near photo-realistic images for in-game play. Nothing is left to the imagination any more. It’s barely possible to imagine a time when text adventures were something actual people enjoyed. And maybe it makes sense that one of the greatest text-based adventures of all time was based on one of the most entertaining books of all time. Here’s the story of that game from The Adventurers Guild:

In brief, if you are unfamiliar with the series, the Hitchhiker’s Guide isn’t your typical fantasy or science fiction series. It began innocently enough as a radio series on BBC Radio 4, the story of a young man who survives the end of the world thanks to befriending an alien researcher who had been stranded on Earth. The series is a comedy and if I tried to relate how he and his researcher friend (named “Ford Prefect” due to a slight misunderstanding when he was going undercover) end up traveling with the three-headed fugitive president of the galaxy in a ship powered by improbability, it wouldn’t make any sense at all. Nonetheless, the series was a hit and the BBC commissioned a second radio series. From there, in a span of only a few years, it was released as a pair of albums, a pair of novels (with more coming), and even a TV series. The world was beating a path to Mr. Adams’s door.

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The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.