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Games Insomniac's Wolverine game looks every bit as bloody as it should Grant St. Clair

Science Pigeons may navigate using magnetic cells in their liver Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Microsoft Surface Ultra laptop features Nvidia's new Spark platform Rob Beschizza

Entertainment Disney World's "Carousel of Progress" now to include progress Ruben Bolling

books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

gadgets Europe fines Temu €200m for selling dangerous chargers and baby toys Rob Beschizza

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politics University of Iowa students must take Intellectual Freedom classes whether they want to or not Rob Beschizza

antiques Why are these antique pipes shaped like human hands? Popkin

Games Quantic Dream's inexplicable live service hero shooter dies an ignominious death Grant St. Clair

art Erotic wooden puzzles from 1960s spark joy Popkin

Technology Two-thirds of US doctors now ask an AI chatbot for treatment advice Ellsworth Toohey

AI Meta is tracking its employees' every mouse click — and they're mad Séamus Bellamy

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books Cory Doctorow's "Reverse Centaur" book — why AI is hell on workers Mark Frauenfelder

politics How 1925 press dismissed the Klan at peak power Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Roomba inventor builds robots designed to bond with you Popkin

Games The PlayStation earnings report has some uncomfortable bombshells Grant St. Clair