superfan has recreated Frodo’s exact journey from Bag End to Mount Doom in a 10-hour virtual trek through Lord of the Rings Online, an 18-year-old MMO.

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A "Keep Android Open" campaign is pushing back on new rules from Google that will reportedly block users from sideloading apps on Android phones

study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked

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Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe

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World’s major cities hit by 25% leap in extremely hot days since the 1990s

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Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show

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A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

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