The greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide

With a height of 2,001 metres (6,565 ft), the mammoth structure would have been approximately five times as tall as the former World Trade Center in New York City.

The Aeropolis 2001 was proposed in 1989, amid a spate of similar projects for incredibly large buildings. All were proposed during the Japanese asset price bubble, which ended in the early 1990s

WTF

"Storm" by Gener8ion featuring Yung Lean. If the first half doesn't grab you, I promise it's worth sticking around, since the second half is why it's one of the best music videos in a while

A dad who lost his sense of taste and smell for years after catching covid has had both senses restored – thanks to specially-developed chewing gum

xD

it's a scam

Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman showed a consistent pattern of lying

"People did not get better because they went online. Giving everyone access to a raw, unfiltered pipeline of every fact and lie ever produced did not turn them into better-educated people. It broke them."

The internet you grew up on isn't dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is

"In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime"

Film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye). This montage work portrays a momentous American epoch that is yet to be named, and comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history - focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism

Hello, World

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn

Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job

The rise and fall of the player piano indicates a robust demand for human labor that machines cannot replace

Binance is hoping that suing (PDF) The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was built '95 percent' with Unreal Engine Blueprints

Sticking to a nearly-vanilla version of Unreal Engine kept Sandfall Interactive on track

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Belgium at risk of becoming ‘narco-state’, judge warns