Cocktails and checkmates: the young Britons giving chess a new lease of life

Laid-back clubs proving a hit in London, Birmingham and elsewhere as people look for new ways to socialise

A home where "technology is always in the background, working and listening, feels anxiety-producing" instead of restorative, architect Yan M. Wang tells Axios

Dungeons & Dragons Brings Purpose and Fulfillment - and Maybe Structure and Connection for Retirees

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes — no wonder we’re addicted

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

double strike by captain obvious and captain karma

Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That's one trillion memories, moments, and movements -- preserved for the public and available to access

study reveals that foreign suspects are mentioned three times more in German media than their actual share in police statistics, influencing public perception of crime and migration

xD

Apple flavors and types, visualized

Legendary developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden 2004, has died

Death to Spotify: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

congrats!

but workers are often using the apps to manage basic expenses like groceries, rent and other needs, a new report found

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

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that "Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path

The seventh edition of the report, which has been published every five years since 1995, found:

More than 80% of protected habitats are in a poor or bad state, with “unsustainable” consumption and production patterns driving loss of wildlife.

The EU’s “carbon sink” has declined by about 30% in a decade as logging, wildfires and pests damage forests.

Emissions from transport and food have barely budged since 2005, despite progress in other sectors.

Member states have failed to adapt to extreme weather as fast as risk levels have risen.

Water stress already affects one in three Europeans and will worsen as the climate changes.

Researchers have developed a portable sensor to detect PFAS in water, offering a faster and cheaper alternative to existing methods

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms