movies Travel: Vienna's Third Man Museum Séamus Bellamy

History In 1888, a French adventurer convinced Vietnamese tribes to crown him king Ellsworth Toohey

Internet An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished Ellsworth Toohey

pure energy Coal finally loses to the Sun Jason Weisberger

Games Retro Pokémon-inspired indie game looks very cool, but not long for this world Grant St. Clair

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

art Poster of The Birds of Palestine Rob Beschizza

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stupid Trump promised cheap gas and no new wars. Thanks, MAGA! Jason Weisberger

oink A pig liver and two pig kidneys worked in a human body for five days Jason Weisberger

gadgets Dell counters the MacBook Neo with a $599 XPS 13 Rob Beschizza

Carnival 250 Grandpa Pudding Brains thinks he's bigger than Elvis Jason Weisberger

movies Backrooms is a blockbuster Rob Beschizza

law CNN sues Perplexity AI over "verbatim" copies of articles Rob Beschizza

Space Blue Origin rocket explodes during Florida test Rob Beschizza

Games The Witcher 3 to release new expansion after a decade Grant St. Clair

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

Technology OpenAI needs a 26x revenue increase to justify its buildout Ellsworth Toohey

data breach Trump Mobile data breach may affect far more than its own customers Séamus Bellamy

books Sci-Hub and Libgen descend from a Soviet tradition of smuggled science Ellsworth Toohey