The internet may have made a meme out of this phenomenon, but like most trends, it flattens a much more complex reality—one where attraction is subjective, relationships are nuanced, and sometimes the average guys really do just have great game.

By 2035, more than a third of China's population will be over 60, according to official estimates. The country will also lose nearly 60 million people in the next decade – almost equivalent to the population of France – according to some estimates.

Ofgem reported at the end of last winter that customers who had fallen behind on their energy bills owed suppliers a record £4.7bn.

We talk about “the algorithm” stealing our attention, but that’s not strictly true, and it absolves us of our complicity in the process. In fact, we steal one another’s attnetion; the algorithm merely ranks and rewards us for the attention-stealing strategies we develop in response to these crude yet devastatingly effective gamified incentives.

When a fourteen year old girl experiences this exact sequence of events, we have a clear word for it. We call it bullying. We recognize that relational aggression is a form of violence. We bring in school counselors. We hold assemblies about exclusion. We teach children that deliberately leaving someone out is a moral failure. But when the people involved are forty years old, the word bullying vanishes. We refuse to apply the term to adults. The disappearance of the word does tremendous social work. By stripping away the vocabulary of bullying, we strip away the recognition of harm.

Generative AI has made the work of plagiarizing an idea a lot simpler. A person vibecoding a game doesn't need any programming or design experience. They input ideas and instructions into a generative AI application and it writes the code and builds out the user interface.

Similarly, as we crawl out of our simulation pods, AKA our phone screens, glimpsing at the dystopian horror that surrounds us, there's a pervading sense that nothing feels real anymore, with an ever-accelerating news cycle that takes major historical events splintering them entirely into unrecognisable bytes of information – out-of-context video clips, self-referential memes and AI remixes – on our social media, leaving us disorientated amid the chaos.

The breakthrough came from the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority ( NISTA ), a new government body overseeing major projects. When NISTA published its 2026 annual report , the truth spilled out. Tucked away in official records was the revelation that the Lower Thames Crossing's Outline Business Case had already been formally approved in October 2025 . This single date shatters the DfT's entire defense.

The Uni Kuru Toga is an innovative Japanese mechanical pencil with a built-in mechanism that rotates the lead as you write. It makes sure the lead wears down evenly, so it always creates a consistent, precise line.

The Verge asked Amazon directly if the change in email format was to shield purchase information from companies like Google that are building AI-powered shopping tools. ”As customers shop with us more frequently, including on their phones, and use the ‘Your Orders’ page in the Amazon app to get real-time, consolidated order details and delivery status, we’ve simplified several order-related emails to direct customers to our app and website for the latest information on their orders,” spokesperson Maxine Tagay said in an email.

Less than 1 percent of all Democratic donors account for almost half of the $1.4 billion raised by spam PACs since 2017.

The idea of the American dream has been taken away from us. They stole her. But at its core is something very human, not limited to any specific territory, that is, the desire for security, for rootedness, for the feeling of being at home, among one's own.

It's only a tiny leap to imagine that someone could make a self-replicating piece of malware that probes its environment, relaying reconnaissance back to a smart command-and-control that actively works to push itself into accessories and IoT devices and industrial equipment found adjacent to an infected target.

I have twenty years in tech and an InfoSec background and the most sophisticated thing I did to own my tablet was prompt an LLM.

[I]n the SOSC Core we first equip students to read, write, and think without dependence on AI, just as we equip students to read, write, and think beyond the bounds of conventional views or leading ideologies

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Drones deploy near the solar plant Fly into low and mid-altitude clouds Alter the cloud droplets Reduce cloud reflectivity Allow more sunlight to reach the solar panels No chemicals No new infrastructure Measurable output increase

The smartphone erodes freedom not because it invades our private space, but because it gives us the feel of a private world. Everything is there for me, smooth and available, ordered by likes and matches. As Han puts it in The Tonality of Thought: "Typing around, I subjugate the world to my needs. The world appears to me under the digital illusion of being totally at my disposal…. On the dating app Tinder, it degrades the Other to a sexual object. Deprived of their otherness, the Other becomes consumable…. Digitalization necessarily leads to the disappearance of the Other."

Today, I think it's safe to say that almost anywhere there's a computer, there's probably some Python. It's literally on Mars.

Biological computing, in contrast, uses wetware to process data. This consists of living neurons grown from stem cells. The neurons are connected to computing hardware via microelectrode arrays. These let electrical signals pass between the biological cells and digital systems.