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• Kyle Troup, 34, has been a professional bowler since he was 16.
• In 2021, he set a bowling earnings record, making $496,900.
• Troupe stars on the new HBO documentary "Born to Bowl" and is glad the sport is getting attention.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kyle Troup. It has been edited for length and clarity.

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• My grandma got her first iPhone after a brief health scare and became hooked on YouTube videos.
• She slipped farther away from the family store, old friends, and the dinner table.
• Seeing her blush at silly romance videos made me realize that she wasn't wasting time.

On the day my Taiwanese grandma A-Ma turned 80, she complained about a li

Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company's Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April 14th, or it will

The feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI is getting even more contentious as the two sides get ready for trial later this month. The latest development in the legal back-and-forth saw OpenAI accuse Elon Musk and his latest proposals as a "legal ambush," as first reported by Bloomberg. OpenAI filed its response on Friday, which detailed that Musk was "sandbagging the defendants and injecting chaos

In celebration of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie coming to theaters, Nintendo is making it a little cheaper to get both Super Mario Galaxy games when you buy a $449.99 Nintendo Switch 2 console. Now through May 9th, you can buy a Switch 2 with Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 for $499.99 ($20 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target. It’s a small discount, but it’s a good

• Jim Lexa worked as a journalist for 30 years and saw his salary plummet as print journalism faded.
• He quit without another job at 53, worked as a handyman, then got a job with the Postal Service.
• He now earns up to $85K a year — nearly three times his old salary — and can

• Entrepreneur Nik Halik bought a defunct nuclear missile silo in Colorado for over $10 million.
• The US government once used the facility to power, house, and potentially fire nuclear missiles.
• Halik plans to turn the 200,000-square-foot facility into a data center to power AI.

A decommissioned nuclear silo near Denver

As fears of global conflict grow, tech companies are racing to protect servers by turning nuclear missile silos and abandoned mines into ultra-secure data centers. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans are joining survival camps like Fortitude Ranch that are built to survive catastrophes, or even World War III.

We spend a lot of time at The Verge waxing poetic about the latest gadgets, but sometimes it’s the last-gen devices from several years ago that offer the better value. The 2021 Kindle Paperwhite is a great case in point — especially since you can grab it at Woot in refurbished condition with lockscreen ads, 8GB of storage, and a 90-day warranty starting at $49.99 through the rest of today

• I'm usually the friend who initiates plans, but I decided to take a short break for my well-being.
• Hitting pause on reaching out to friends and making plans helped me understand my priorities.
• Now that I've started initiating again, I'm trying to focus my energy on friends who reciprocate.

Ever since I was little, I've made it my mission to find friends and build the community I