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For the first time, League of Legends Esports held its renowned World Championship in a closed bubble due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. https://wapo.st/2HQUbVC

As NASA moves towards the SLS’s first flight, putting the Orion spacecraft in orbit around the moon, there are concerns not with the rocket’s engines but rather with the computer software embedded in all its systems. https://wapo.st/34HfX6I

The election is winding to a close, but election night might provide more drama than closures. Instead of refreshing social media into the wee hours, some people are choosing to avoid the news altogether and tune in when there's more clarity. https://wapo.st/3oJmea3

Adapting the controls for the Switch leaves the game feeling clunkier and shallower than the original. https://wapo.st/3jJH8ST

Pandemic-fueled online shopping, coupled with the expected crush of holiday sales, has led Amazon to add 400,000 jobs this year. https://wapo.st/35MivzY

The campaign manager for Mike Cooney, who's in a tight race with Greg Gianforte, fooled Christie into making a video on Cameo. https://wapo.st/3e7FMAa

When the coronavirus pandemic shutdown real-world racing, NASCAR leaned into esports to great success. Now it's looking at esports to help fuel its future. https://wapo.st/2TO2l3D

SpaceX decided to make the change after the abort of a mission for the U.S. Space Force prompted SpaceX to inspect its fleet of rockets and led to the discovery of a problem in two of the engines of the rocket scheduled to take three NASA astronauts and one from Japan to the space station Nov. 14. https://wapo.st/3ozVj0h

Ubisoft has built a world in which it's more fun to wander around than pursue the game's main story tasks. https://wapo.st/3jG4Krg

The Senate Commerce Committee’s hearing is set to discuss tech’s content-moderation practices. https://wapo.st/3jBFp1R

Facebook's ban on new political ads starts Tuesday as the final day of the election approaches. https://wapo.st/35FEb0C

The social media giant said the networks were trying to spread misleading information on its sites, including at least one account sowing misinformation about the election. https://wapo.st/2Jf7u2w

Your first PS5 accessory may need to be a bigger media cabinet. https://wapo.st/3msK5ZA

Twitter has started pushing notices to warn users to be on the lookout for misinformation to people's timelines. https://wapo.st/2G8APdS

Executing the ambitious 'play as anyone' idea in "Watch Dogs: Legion" was “hard the whole time, every step of the way.” https://wapo.st/3jBWSqS

The company is getting into cloud gaming in a very Facebook way, one that differs significantly from the approaches of Google and Microsoft. https://wapo.st/2TE3x9H

Some of the staunchest critics of Facebook, Google and other Silicon Valley giants are ramping up their efforts — and their donations — to try to convince former vice president Joe Biden to take a harder line against the tech industry if he wins the 2020 election. https://wapo.st/2Tsr11o

Topher has racked up 620,000 followers, in part by joining the TikTok collective Conservative Hype House. https://wapo.st/35y6PAO

“It’s kind of embarrassing,” he says of his journey down a long rabbit hole — and out again. https://wapo.st/31FPZyN

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are refusing to tell members of Congress what gives them the legal right to use cellphone location data to track people inside the country without a warrant. https://wapo.st/2FTj3ej

With excellent, eerie atmosphere and a new way to ward off enemies, "Little Nightmares II" shows a lot of promise. https://wapo.st/2FU4o2x

The appeals court said Uber and Lyft had 30 days from an expected later filing to come into compliance. https://wapo.st/35pHaKy

The suit filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court takes aim at what the plaintiffs called a "constant barrage" of pro-Proposition 22 messages that Uber drivers face on the job. https://wapo.st/35kmaVo

Entitled “Prologue: The Gathering Storm,” this first update is a prelude, of sorts, for what’s planned to come in “Spellbreak.” https://wapo.st/3jlrzAB

The ultra-luxury pickup starts at $112,595, has 1,000 horsepower and can go zero to 60 in three seconds. And it has a "crab walk mode." https://wapo.st/2HhV6ye

The congresswoman innately understands streaming as an entertainment medium. https://wapo.st/35oJGAH

Tesla is forging ahead with “Full Self-Driving” despite skepticism among some safety advocates about whether Tesla’s technology is ready — and whether the rest of the world is ready for cars that drive themselves. https://wapo.st/3kiUciZ

Two former Blizzard employees are branching out with a new studio that aims to make the RTS genre more accessible. https://wapo.st/35ouN1o

The lawsuit kicks off a legal war between Washington and Silicon Valley, one that could have vast implications not only for Google but the entire tech industry. https://wapo.st/31GIHuL

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The studio behind "Avengers" is doing admirable work. But at its core, the game is lacking. https://wapo.st/3kf3PPV

Right under our noses, the Internet’s most-used website has been getting worse. https://wapo.st/3j7pvMh

While Microsoft successfully took down Trickbot servers in the United States, nearly two dozen others operate internationally that could still cause election havoc. https://wapo.st/3dD2MH6

Are competitive games true tests of skill, or are they mere entertainment products? https://wapo.st/359K5qF

Twitter issued a stunning reversal of its policies on Thursday, changing a rule that resulted in blocking a controversial New York Post story about the alleged emails of Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s son. https://wapo.st/3lQDFTZ

President Trump regularly shares content from his campaign on Twitter without using the common retweet or quote tweet. https://wapo.st/353Rt6N

"I don’t think we’ve ever seen a game do some of the things we’re doing," one Frictional Games developer said. https://wapo.st/3dx3tl4

If it happens, the collision would likely produce thousands of pieces of space debris, the most since an active communications satellite operated by Iridium and a dead Russian satellite crashed into each other in 2009. https://wapo.st/2H8ggOG

It's been exactly one year, and 249 "launch" puns since Launcher launched. These are the highlights. https://wapo.st/3dsc3BC

Valhalla brings you to the Viking Age, but changes go deeper than just modifying time and place. https://wapo.st/2H8Slik

The speed with which the accounts gained followers shows how far false messages can spread before Twitter can block them. https://wapo.st/3jZuEaC

Judges questioned whether Uber would really have to upend its business model as a result of the August ruling, as Uber tried to position itself as different from Lyft in how its treats drivers. https://wapo.st/3dy1fBV

Seven nations have joined the United States in signing the Artemis Accords, a series of bilateral agreements that would establish rules for behavior on the surface of the moon. https://wapo.st/3nOokVC

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Every moment of 'Hades' stems from an intentional design. https://wapo.st/3728bpy

The software giant won a court order to seize servers used by TrickBot, a network of infected computers that could have been used to lock up systems crucial to delivering election results. https://wapo.st/3nBSITf

More than 28,000 people whose relationships have been affected by Qanon swap stories and find support on Reddit. https://wapo.st/34MVjRD

Google's merger with a travel software company made it a travel leader. It was just one of the many times the company has been reviewed by the feds. https://wapo.st/3nFYFyv

The delay of the Oct. 31 launch of a crew to the International Space Station is intended to let SpaceX review the causes for a problem that was detected during a launch earlier this month. https://wapo.st/34I3dLX

“You can talk about us with the best esports teams of all time now,” said the Shock's captain. https://wapo.st/3dgT2ll