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gadgets Europe's USB-C charger rules come into force Rob Beschizza

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review A tactical backpack that won't make you look like a TactiFool Séamus Bellamy

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crime How to avoid scams and yakuza in Tokyo's Kabukicho neighborhood Ellsworth Toohey

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art Meet the artist who turned his family's mask shop into a house of surreal horrors Popkin

crime Thieves execute a Labubu heist Jason Weisberger

Games New VR game traps you in a surreal, shifting hotel Grant St. Clair

art Artist traps AI in RAM prison, forces it to contemplate its own mortality Ellsworth Toohey

Science Museum hero builds tiny wheelchair for injured turtle, restores faith in humanity Popkin

victorian era How a teenage diarist scandalized the nation in 1902 with a thirsty Victorian memoir Ellsworth Toohey

Weird Video explains why Victorian toilets were stinky deathtraps Popkin

politics NaNoWriMo shutting down Rob Beschizza

Nature Watch a small beetle use incredible strength to escape a venus flytrap – a thrilling struggle for survival! Popkin

Science The clouds above us teem with strange creatures Allan Rose Hill

video games Take a crack at Severance's macrodata refinement Gail Sherman