If you have played a game of online chess, or queued up in ranked esports games, chances are you’ve already encountered the Elo rating system. Originally developed in the 1960s by physics professor ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In October 2003, Mark Zuckerberg created his first viral site: not Facebook, but FaceMash. Then a college freshman, he hacked into Harvard’s online dorm ...