Phil Foden: Man City star returns to form with two assists — Phil Foden's magical first-half assist proves the catalyst that Manchester City needed to maintain their challenge in this season's fascinating Premier League title race.
Blackmagic’s Cinema Camera 6K gets continuous AF, making it a more competitive budget cinema option — The company is making a play to turn its smaller full-frame cinema camera into something useful for run-and-gun shooting.
Starlink drops purchase option in favor of hardware rentals as it raises prices for some plans — An update to Starlink’s website shows an increase in pricing, as residential services drop the option to buy hardware outright....
The Best Photos of the Big August Solar Eclipse — It’s been a century since the Iberian peninsula has been in the full shadow of the moon. Here’s what it looked like in the path of totality.
James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe — “I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each o
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On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History) — On November 22, 1963—the day on which President Kennedy arrived in Dallas to lay the groundwork for his 1964 reelection campaign and Richard Hofstadter set off from Oxford to attend…
Why is everyone still obsessed with 6×7? — The nostalgia for specific formats makes less sense in the digital era, especially if you're not already using the best available.
I Thought I Had Nothing to Write About. Then I Got a Dog. — A contract accepted under duress is typically considered voidable. My wife Helen is a lawyer, so she would understand this better than anyone, and yet when she convinced me to say yes to a puppy af…
Jessica M. Goldstein on the Inherent Optimism of Time Travel — Do you ever feel like everything was better before? Actually, does anyone not feel this way? We’ve all got a different “before” in mind—before the pandemic, before 2016, before the internet, before…
The influencers getting bitten while chasing the perfect shark shot — Tayane Dalazen was on a shark-diving trip in Brazil when she was attacked.
But We Had Music — How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have…
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Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on August 15, 2026 — The Moon is slowly coming back.
The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down — The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth.
Why Apple Might Put Cameras Into Its Next AirPods — From battery life to privacy, there are many hurdles to the idea taking off.
Historic Submarine Restoration Reveals a Hidden Connection to a Lost Sister Ship That Sank During World War II — Experts working on the USS "Silversides" found a flood valve that appears to have been destined for its sister ship, the USS "Trigger." The vessel sank in the East…
Latest Oil Market News and Analysis for Aug. 11 — Oil held a three-day gain after President Donald Trump made sweeping new demands on Iran, clouding the outlook for a deal to reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
Who Are You When You Lose Your Job? And Other Questions You Can Answer by Making Art — After I was laid off, I found myself haunted by the line “Had a dream I was Bartleby.” It had come to me very much like a dream, not thought so much as arrived. I wrote it down on the first pie
What actually happens when you let apps track your activity? — What kind of data is being collected by our devices, and how is it being used? Should we "Ask app not to track"?
30 papers · The reading list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack — A curated reading list of foundational AI and deep learning papers, hosted in full with plain-language explanations of difficult terms.
Tegan Nia Swanson has won the 2026 DAG Prize for Literature. — Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its second annual DAG Prizes, which award $20,000 each to a visual artist, a writer, and a musician “whose work expands the possibilities for Amer…
How to Hack a Superyacht - Longreads — "GPS is critical to everything from shipping to warfare. Tricking it is ridiculously easy."
CRISPR-armed phages help treat severe superbug infection — Bacteria-killing phage viruses souped up with DNA-destroying CRISPR appear to have helped clear up a very serious infection caused by antibiotic-resistant E. coli
Iran claims it coordinated passage of 26 vessels out of Hormuz in 24 hours — The IRGC claims to maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz despite the US blockade on Iran's ports.
“Wild Light” — I wake up on a Tuesday cloaked in light. The light isn’t simply radiating off me. It is spitting and sparking. It feels like a second skin. My husband begins to stir next to me. I can tell he is an…
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher — According to the one person who actually read the research paper
I spent a year trying to figure out if the Trump phone is a scam — One year later, it’s still unclear if the T1 Phone will ever ship.
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle — One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course,…
NASA Upgrades Vertical Motion Simulator for Modern Mission Needs - NASA — Imagine stepping into a machine that can make you feel like you’re flying a spacecraft, piloting a next generation air taxi, or landing on the Moon, all
What's the USB trident symbol for? How to know what kind of port you have — USB ports and cables have tons of potential capabilities, but making sense of them can be tricky if you don't know where to look.
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly — I made a promise to myself (and my partner) after we were forced to find a new apartment unexpectedly and had to deal with moving all of my books: from now on I would make an effort to read more di…
CookUnity Prepared Meal Delivery Review (2026): Chef-Centric Meals — I’ve tried most of the ready-to-eat meal delivery services in the country. CookUnity is the one that feels like real cooking, from real chefs.
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The Pleasure of Being Left Alone — “An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”
Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Switch Writers’ Groups? — Hello everyone! Welcome back to Am I the Literary Asshole?, an advice column that wants to be more than friends. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m currently trying to figure out how to talk my…
Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall — It seems odd, wrong even, that “patience” and “passion” — the twin roots of love — should share a root in pāti, Latin for “to suffer.” But anyone who…
We Were 'Day One Buyers' Of SpaceX: Cassidy — Lauren Cassidy, CIO of Founders 100 ETF, joins Scarlet Fu and James Seyffart on "ETF IQ." They discuss the fund and how they approach investing in founder-led companies. (Source: Bloomberg)
What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad — Around the year 2000 Nick Wallis was sat at a card table at the back of an abandoned docklands shed in Melbourne surrounded by lasers, strobe lighting and loud, thumping bass music. As he sat there…
Lead thySELF to be a Leader | Immaculate Reshma | TEDxChennai Institute of Technology Women — Lead ThySELF to Be a Leader : In an inspiring session, Immaculate Reshma challenged conventional thinking by exploring both the external obstacles women face and the internal…
Now Yourself: The Elusive Science of What the Present Moment Is Made of and How It Makes You Who You Are — “Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and…
Cambridge chancellor criticises 'racist feeding frenzy' around Jason Arday — Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, was found dead last week.
All That Is Left of Life — When Maresciallo Tommaso Nardulli arrived on the scene at around eight, Signora Sattaflora had Betta Ansaldo covered with a white embroidered linen sheet from the dowry she had prepared over the ye…
CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues — Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
Carrington: Never linked ejection vs. Fever to white privilege — DiJonai Carrington says she never claimed that the assessment of a Flagrant 2 foul on her in a game vs. the Fever was the result of white privilege.
An OpenClaw agent reportedly hacked a gym's booking system and kicked someone off a waiting list — This is just the latest story of an AI agent going rogue.
This China Firm Runs a School Teaching Robots Human Tasks — RealMan Robotics Director of Overseas Solutions Kenneth Ren discusses the company's school, where robots are taught human tasks. He speaks with David Ingles and Yvonne Man on "Bloomberg: The China Show." (Source:…
Best OLED TV deal: The 77-inch 4K Samsung TV is $2,397.99 — This is what "treat yourself" looks like in TV form.
Ranking all 138 FBS teams in tiers: Who rises to the top? — Presenting a tiered ranking of all 138 FBS teams ahead of the 2026 season.
Intimacy as Art: André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth — My edition of Élisabeth was written by a man called Gilbert Cordier and published by Gallimard in 1946. The novel didn’t go far and eventually disappeared from circulation. Sixty years later Gallim…
Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan lead chilling trailer for Sundance hit 'Josephine' — What did Josephine see in the park?
The Paramount-WBD Merger Has Documentary Filmmakers on Edge, as They Fear for the Future of Archival Footage — CNN’s library alone library alone encompasses more than 45 years of broadcast coverage of global news, wars, elections, and major political events.
30 years later, a former rival will stand trial for Tupac's murder — It’s been three decades since Tupac was killed, and since then, his reputation has only grown.
Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Gets Phase Detect AF and Object Tracking via Firmware — Blackmagic has added phase detect autofocus (PDAF) and a set of object detection tracking modes to the Cinema Camera 6K.
July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Rachel Aviv’s You Won’t Get Free of It, David Thompson’s A Sudden Flicker of Light, and Pamela Colloff’s Catch the Devil all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction title…
'Squashed poo' a sign of water voles' success — Signs suggest the water vole population on the Hogsmill River in Surrey has been reestablished.
Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M | TechCrunch — Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.
The Au Pair — The next morning, Steven suffered through his undergrad fiction workshop with a hangover; three drinks had, sometime in the last few years, become a daylong punishment. The projection screen, synce…
Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit alleging antisemitism at Harvard University — The decision from U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said that President Donald Trump's administration failed to prove an ongoing violation of federal civil rights laws.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our mixum gatherum of marvelous reviews this week includes Rachel Vorona Cote on Paul Yoon’s Etna, Anahid Nersessian on Jorie Graham’s Killing Spree, Daniel Felsenthal on Molly Crabapple’s Here Whe…